I have bought into the "always transcribe by ear if there's no rush in learning the song" idea. Previously, I would try to transcribe every song, but I soon realized that there's no way for me to verify whether what I have transcribed is correct or wrong, and it made me feel that I was wasting my time because there's no way to "correct myself".
So later I subscribed to the Bass Player magazine, which I think have trustworthy full transcription of songs, and then I try to learn the songs by ear first, and after comfortably being able to play the song from start to end, and satisfied with my transcription, I would look at the magazine's transcription, to see which part that I have got wrong. Usually it will be anywhere from 0 wrong notes for very easy bass lines up to around 10% of wrong notes for harder jazz tunes which have chromatic notes outside the major/minor scale, I am already using a software to slow things down so I am still not satisfied with a 10% miss!
Lately I realized that for most of the parts that I have gotten the wrong notes, I have difficulty singing the differences, let say there's this note in a riff that's a C and I thought it was C#, I have problems singing the whole 10 notes riff with this C in the middle differentiating it with C#, so now i am practicing singing this riff with both C in it and C# in it, and hope that I could find out my weak points and hope that it will help me in my next song.
Are there any other tips in improving my transcription accuracy?
Thanks in advance.
So later I subscribed to the Bass Player magazine, which I think have trustworthy full transcription of songs, and then I try to learn the songs by ear first, and after comfortably being able to play the song from start to end, and satisfied with my transcription, I would look at the magazine's transcription, to see which part that I have got wrong. Usually it will be anywhere from 0 wrong notes for very easy bass lines up to around 10% of wrong notes for harder jazz tunes which have chromatic notes outside the major/minor scale, I am already using a software to slow things down so I am still not satisfied with a 10% miss!
Lately I realized that for most of the parts that I have gotten the wrong notes, I have difficulty singing the differences, let say there's this note in a riff that's a C and I thought it was C#, I have problems singing the whole 10 notes riff with this C in the middle differentiating it with C#, so now i am practicing singing this riff with both C in it and C# in it, and hope that I could find out my weak points and hope that it will help me in my next song.
Are there any other tips in improving my transcription accuracy?
Thanks in advance.
