What Do You Call Someone...

[Bongolation]

...who listens to music and transcribes the parts note-for-note for charts or tabs?

What is the technically-correct term for this job and what do you call the process?

Thanks for any clarification!

[Thunder Pulse]

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[jmac]

I think you answered your own question. I believe it's called transcribing.

[spywebco]

A transcription service is the company to speak with. A transcriptionist is the person that actually does the work.

[Bongolation]

Originally Posted by spywebco

A transcriptionist is the person that actually does the work.

OK, so those brilliant guys who hear a recording a couple of times and get the bass lines down precisely into tabs/charts are transcriptionists?

[Jazzdogg]

Originally Posted by Bongolation

OK, so those brilliant guys who hear a recording a couple of times and get the bass lines down precisely into tabs/charts are transcriptionists?

Did you just hear someone say that and immediately write it down?

[Billnc]

no tabs

[Bongolation]

Originally Posted by Billnc

no tabs

But it's the guy who goes from ear to charts, then?

[Billnc]

Originally Posted by Bongolation

But it's the guy who goes from ear to charts, then?

Yes, my answer was a bit of a wisecrack, but keep in mind you'd transcribe any instrument/voice so tabs wouldn't come into the picture most of the time, and IMO never for guitar or bass anyway.

[Chris K]

Originally Posted by Bongolation

OK, so those brilliant guys who hear a recording a couple of times and get the bass lines down precisely into tabs/charts are transcriptionists?

I do that all the time, but I do not consider myself brilliant. What you need is ear training, especially to hear intervals. Just start transcribing and you'll get good at it soon enough.