Its called Charlie's Jig on there, but its also known as Maisy on the album.
If someone is good at transcription I'd love to see it transcribed on here. I can sort of busk along with it, but I'm having trouble getting some of the nuances and I'm useless at transcription.
This is a good opportunity then to try a bit harder to do better than just busk along. Listen hard, phrase by phrase, and transfere it to your instrument.
Michael is right. Here's how I teach my students to do this:
Listen to the tune over and over until it's very familiar. Sing along with it.
Soon you will be aware of the patterns of notes. At that point, stop the music at the end of the first pattern you hear. Only go that far.
Sing that small group of notes once more and find them on your instrument.
Keep repeating this method. Only work with a small number of notes, one phrase at a time. The beginning takes the longest, and many patterns will repeat. Soon, you will have the whole song.
At that point, you can write down pitch names, or ABC names if you like, but you probably won't need to by then. Good luck.
Suck that tune into Audacity or some similar program and you can isolate phrases or even individual notes and figure out exactly what they are in order to write them down. This has the added benefit that by the time you're done, you will have heard and played every part of the tune so many times that you will probably have it completely in your memory.
You can do it the mechanical way by loading it into some appropriate software (I use BarFly and find it is very good). However I find a the best way for me is a variation on the method posted by Greg the Piano Tuner. Learn the tune well enough to whistle it (with your mouth, not a whistle). When you can do that, just play the first couple of notes at the new pitch and whistle from there. When you have that right, doing it on the instrument is a breeze.
Help with transcribing a tune?
Help with transcribing a tune?
I love this tune - Maisy - by Charlie Heys. Its on this myspace page:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=131515848
Its called Charlie's Jig on there, but its also known as Maisy on the album.
If someone is good at transcription I'd love to see it transcribed on here. I can sort of busk along with it, but I'm having trouble getting some of the nuances and I'm useless at transcription.
Paul
# Posted on July 16th 2008 by pizak
Re: Help with transcribing a tune?
This is a good opportunity then to try a bit harder to do better than just busk along. Listen hard, phrase by phrase, and transfere it to your instrument.
# Posted on July 16th 2008 by llig leahcim
Re: Help with transcribing a tune?
Michael is right. Here's how I teach my students to do this:
Listen to the tune over and over until it's very familiar. Sing along with it.
Soon you will be aware of the patterns of notes. At that point, stop the music at the end of the first pattern you hear. Only go that far.
Sing that small group of notes once more and find them on your instrument.
Keep repeating this method. Only work with a small number of notes, one phrase at a time. The beginning takes the longest, and many patterns will repeat. Soon, you will have the whole song.
At that point, you can write down pitch names, or ABC names if you like, but you probably won't need to by then. Good luck.
# Posted on July 16th 2008 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: Help with transcribing a tune?
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/18299
# Posted on July 16th 2008 by gtag
Re: Help with transcribing a tune?
Suck that tune into Audacity or some similar program and you can isolate phrases or even individual notes and figure out exactly what they are in order to write them down. This has the added benefit that by the time you're done, you will have heard and played every part of the tune so many times that you will probably have it completely in your memory.
# Posted on July 16th 2008 by justjim
Re: Help with transcribing a tune?
You can do it the mechanical way by loading it into some appropriate software (I use BarFly and find it is very good). However I find a the best way for me is a variation on the method posted by Greg the Piano Tuner. Learn the tune well enough to whistle it (with your mouth, not a whistle). When you can do that, just play the first couple of notes at the new pitch and whistle from there. When you have that right, doing it on the instrument is a breeze.
# Posted on July 20th 2008 by Sokol