#practice

Welcome! If you're new to the diary, I am a middle aged musician in the midst of a musical renaissance, including picking up the bass as a secondary (increasingly primary!) instrument. I have been learning primarily by gigging in 3-4 piece band configurations; documenting my gigs with brief...

One area of practice that I'm keen on getting into is transcription. So far, when I learn songs I generally just learn the parts by ear and make mental note of what key it is in. If it's a fill or something of the like then I take it with me into my vocabulary. Much of this only comes into...