Adam: Talks about a person forgetting to take the repeat, "Usually the guitarist". Me: Guilty chuckle.

@rasmusrasmussenmusic

5 жыл бұрын

I lol'd

"pitbull starts rapping about nothing in particular...." GOLD!

"usually the guitarist". i just took the biggest L of my life.... because its true

@ChuckHaney

5 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile, guitarists memorize their parts, which are about 16 times more complex.

@moddim

5 жыл бұрын

Chuck Haney not really

@ChuckHaney

5 жыл бұрын

@@moddim I've never used a chart in my life. When I'm in a band I memorize the material. Someone who is filling in may need a chart, and that's great work, ... for bass players and drummers. There are so many guitarists in the world that getting gigs sitting in, like Adam does, are not the least bit common for guitar players. Everyone and their cousin plays the guitar. Permanent guitar players are easy enough to find.

@moddim

5 жыл бұрын

Chuck Haney I’d say the pianist has it the hardest imo

@toamaori

5 жыл бұрын

I resemble that remark!

"(usually the guitarist)" Truth or personnal vendetta ? :)

@NickF97S

7 жыл бұрын

bitta both

@sevenminaya1390

7 жыл бұрын

I think that one was simply a bass players joke.

@likewhatijustsaid

7 жыл бұрын

As a guitarist, I can say it's the truth.

@lvcifer-616

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a guitarist in a bigband, am familiar with sheet music, but I do miss a D.S. Al Coda A LOT if I don't highlight it on the page. Still like it though. It forces you to remember the piece of music you are playing

@callindberg2242

7 жыл бұрын

Yup. I don't know why we have a hard time with that.

16:04 "NO! Not another the Cure song!" hahaha I feel your pain! :D

@yuufeternal5837

4 жыл бұрын

No..the Cure is amazing 😭

PRO TIP: Make sure the KZread version and the original version are in the same key.

@alexanderh6606

Жыл бұрын

/make sure the version you’re playing at a gig and the version you’re learning is in the same key unless you can transpose in your head

“Usually the guitarist” hit me right in the feels but u low key right

this video has given me the inspiration to finally learn how to read and transcribe music for myself. IM NOT RE-LEARNING UNDER THE BRIDGE FOR THE 100TH TIME JUST BECAUSE I DIDNT PLAY IT FOR A BIT AND NOW I FORGOT IT....thanks Adam!

I'm astonished by your ability to transcribe a whole songs so quick and accurately! Can you teach us how to get started on this?

@lucasgrape8576

8 жыл бұрын

Just do it. Over and over again.

@BamboLord

7 жыл бұрын

Well, when the song is the same 4 notes over and over again the entire song, it isn't very hard to figure it out.

@Stemma3

7 жыл бұрын

Sibelius has a little keyboard on the right. It has the # b (natural) stacatto and the whole, half, 4th, 8th, 16th and 32th. Each one of them corresponds to a key note keypad. 1 is 32th, 2 is 16th, 3 is 8th and so on. The name of the notes are the same on the keyboard A B C D E F G. So, he hits 3 on the keypad (8th notes) and then he hits the A key. Ctrl is for octaves and so on.... you have to remember all the shortcuts, but they are pretty easy: L is for LINES, K is for KEY, T is for Time signature, S is for SLURS. The mouse is just for moving things around and going to specific places. And if you have an electric piano it's easier.

@guitardudeguy3139

6 жыл бұрын

Esteban ..was wondering will it work for a midi guitar or just keyboard.

@Stemma3

6 жыл бұрын

Guitardudeguy TMark/Osh I think I saw a guy with a Midi guitar on sibelius. It is just MIDI, why not

I came across your KZread channel last week and this is literally the best thing on KZread. Thanks for both the great production values and the deep domain knowledge on music. Thanks again!

@darrend.4835

7 жыл бұрын

Mike on the Mandolin Same here. Did you come from the classical musicians video in suggested?

@MikeontheMandolin

7 жыл бұрын

I think I came across the channel searching for tutorials on polyrhythms. :)

I tried this with a "You Shook Me" by AC/DC, and it honestly took me 3 hours to chart it all out (as I'm not fancy with the Musescore shortcuts). I can confidently say I can remember the whole form of the song without the chart. I didn't have to play along with the song 50 times to learn it

thank you for bring musescore to light, i've been looking for a free musical notation program for a couple of years now for until i have disposable income for something better

@pezr6336

6 жыл бұрын

why not use that money to support devs for musescore?

I have a feeling this may be the most valuable bass lessons I have viewed on YT. bass

"God help you if you write a DS Al Coda..."

@markuskoivisto

7 жыл бұрын

I'm h appy to have one segno. If you have two segnos, then god help you....

@yvancluet8146

6 жыл бұрын

That is my only nightmare. The only thing that still manages to get me lost when sight reading music sheets

@lourencodenardinbudo686

6 жыл бұрын

Yes!!

@jacek5809

6 жыл бұрын

Even in an orchestra (a double bass player here) during a rehearsal, a conductor usually has to say at some point: guys, it's a damn coda in 3... 2... 1.... NOW! ....f*cking trombones.

@MrHestichs

6 жыл бұрын

mfw when i use Al coda in every sheet i write so i make sure everything ends up on one pag😬

Im a guitarist and I've had to do the '40 songs in a week' gauntlet run, I wish I'd seen this video years ago. Thanks.

This video was SUPER HELPFUL!!!!! First just confirming that writing your own charts is a fabulous idea, but also just watching your charting process! Fabulous. Thanks so much Adam!

Hi Adam, I have the utmost respect for those you can transcribe like you, figuring out rhythms and notes just by listening..... I still have to check everything and play along with the track....thanks a lot for sharing with us, cheers from Portugal!!

this is me, speaking from the 26.5.2019. Adam, I consider myself a rhythm-guitarist and I am more than impressed by your vids. you are the reason who made me overcome my doubts of picking up the bass and I hope to become a decent bassist as such, though I doubt becomming anything less after binging you. keep going, please

Hey Adam, big fan. Thank you so much for this tip. I started my freshman year of college this semester and since then, I've transcribed about 30 songs now. It's so much fun and satisfying to see all my work as I flip though about 80 pages of music I've transcribed with Sibelius. I don't use repeats anymore and I used the tips you suggested and I love it. Thank you!

It was the first time i have seen someone litestening and noting music this way. Music is something I always have a "comeback" months by months. This is just amazing and beautiful to see to me. Thanks for your videos.

"Usually the guitarist" made me smile. Thank you for your clear descriptions. I enjoy learning and learning from your channel keeping it light and deep at the same time. I appreciate you.

@AmandaKaymusic

6 жыл бұрын

I find writing by hand then typing it in and playing it stores it in more muscle, ear and sight neural pathways and that helps too. More pathways easier memory access.

I really like how you listen to music. It's more of an intellectual thing, very interesting

I found this channel today and I love it. Also, "Just Like Heaven" is my favorite Cure song! Double the awesome in one video!

Adam, you are an incredible online educator. I've been following you since your early videos (i think you were still studying back then), to your graduation recital, and up till now. I will definitely recommend your channel to my students :)

Generally, all your stuff is useful and intersting. This is even better/one of your best: Terribly useful to see you go through the process. Very appreciated.

This is a wonderful concept with applications everywhere. Making life easier for 'future you' is like being a time traveller. Awesome tip!

You're doing a huge work. Personnaly I tend to adapt my sheet depending of the song (i'm guitarist and piano player btw). If it's a simple chords song, iReal Pro is my friend. If the grid/structure is too complicated (and if I create sheet also for other musicians), I make a full page of chords. If I need melody, I create a sheet, but usually never more than 1 page. If it's a complicated progressive rock song, I learn it by heart (usually guitar pro helps me learning and keeping a trace) no other choice. And yes, you're right about D.S al coda, repeat... I don't use them very often...

3:16 "Usually the guitarist" Dang it he's right, just happened to me recently, have to have the whole band retake multiple times during a recording session just because I need to work on my reading

Really enjoyed watching you write this out. Don't know why, but it makes me happy that someone somewhere tries to put in the due diligence to their musical vocation.

As an Alt-Rock guy, I find it absolutely hilarious watching you listen to The Cure for the first time.

@LordoftheStrings109

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Beck Love this channel, but the fact he's never heard this record makes me a little suspicious...

@grayforester

6 жыл бұрын

That his musical interests don't include The Cure? More musicians than not in the world have no interest in historic rock songs. Much music in the world has nothing to do with rock. That's supposed to be okay.

@finnelhumano6096

5 жыл бұрын

I would bet he already knew this song, any guesses why he choose this one instead of Forever Young to make a demo?

@Improbabilities

5 жыл бұрын

@@finnelhumano6096 based on the professional musicians I know (and the basic music theory I took in high school), I have no doubt that Adam did this without hearing the song before.

@MaggaraMarine

5 жыл бұрын

@@Improbabilities Yeah. It's apparent from the video that he has never heard the song. For example at one point he said that he assumes that the guitar riff will only last 8 bars when it actually lasted 16 bars. He also guessed that a new section is going to start, but it just repeated the guitar riff. Also, he seemed genuinely surprised by the way the song ended. If he was familiar with the song (even if he had heard it only once before transcribing it), he would have known the structure of the song in advance, at least in some way, and he wouldn't have been surprised by the ending. What he did in this video wasn't really impressive at all. I could have easily done the same thing as fast as Adam did it, because the whole song just repeats the same four bars over and over again with bass playing root notes in a repetitive rhythm based mostly on 8th notes, and it's basic diatonic chords, aside from the G major chord in the bridge section. If the song had been more difficult, then it could have been more impressive, for example if it had been some kind of a funk bassline that has a lot of variations in it or fast walking bass or something like that, but this particular bassline was almost as simple as it gets.

This is (possibly) the most useful thing I have ever heard

This actually gave me the motivation to start transcribing chromatic percussion parts that have multiple players written onto the music in the Symphonic Band I'm a part of to be just for my part only. I always get frustrated and lost when I start looking at the wrong line or have a ridiculous amount of page turns, so writing it out for myself is gonna help me out a lot. Thanks Adam!

It's amazing to me how you hear the music and start typing the notes on the lines ! I really wish I could read music, so I could stop forgetting the songs I love and once knew how to play really well... more of this please ? Love your videos :)

Those Codas and rests were the hardest for me playing gospel music in a church as a guitarist who couldn’t really read sheet music well. I ended up writing cues above like you said in plain English as well as chord names above and it helped a lot.Gospel music was a lot harder than I gave it credit for at first.

creating charts is also a way to learn tunes to eventually be done with the charts.. Great video man!

This channel is the greatest!!!

Thanks for all your great advice and tips. You're a wiz at music notation and so much more. It was very instructive to watch and listen as you went through the process of transcribing the song.

Wow....this would've taken me about a week writing it out on MuseScore. And NOT after only one listen! You're KING!!!! Love your videos, even though I'm not even a guitar person :-) I am still learning a LOT.

Your dedication and methodology are inspiring.

This was lesson was GOLD. YOU ARE A LEGEND ADAM. LEGEEEEEND.

So fricken helpful. I have to learn 5-10 songs a week for church. This is very helpful. Those ole timey church composers liked to change chords alot. U are a helpful dude.

This is an extremely helpful video! Keep doing what you're doing.

Software for brains, I need to get on this level of musicianship ... thank for the wake up call

Amazing video. That way you don't have to listen to crappy pop songs more times than you would like for function gigs! Eternally grateful!

Thanks. Your lessons and thoughts are always helping.

Your Videos are on point, so clear not a slither of BS and a clear intent to educate. Not dissing other Music tuition Videos they may help some folks but for me many others seem to have a ploy to mess up the brain.

I love how you took us through the process, step by step. I learned so much by observing. Would be awesome if you took this "transcription" series a little further and looked at transcribing other songs/basslines, preferably ones you've never transcribed before but are really popular in the music/bass community. Keep it up!

Insanely valuable! Thank you Adam!

8:52 - "If something would repeat that many times..." Well, wouldn't you know.

Why do I find this so entertaining? I literally don't understand half of what he is saying.

@seumemel

6 жыл бұрын

Hahahahah me too! I don't even know how to play anything

@6884

6 жыл бұрын

that's another proof of the fact that he's a great teacher!

@l0wbtry

6 жыл бұрын

There's a musician inside you which you need to let out :D

@JeremyAndersonBoise

5 жыл бұрын

Because his intellect is inspiring, perhaps?

@manan-543

4 жыл бұрын

I think you like to feel smarter by watching his video. That's usually a reason people watch complex stuff on KZread which they don't understand, myself included. Or you might be interested in music. Also Adam is a great teacher.

AN, you are amazing!

Hey Adam! I've been watching your videos non-stop for the last two weeks. Thanks for all of your hard work. Also I've got to give a shout out to Noteflight.com another great free composing software.

@meemo4556

6 жыл бұрын

Noteflight is great, but the shortcuts are more limited.

Dude. Super helpful video. I run into this problem a lot, this totally solved it.

I played in an 80s cover band for over a decade and we had a really solid bass player. The intro to Just Like Heaven was the only thing out of the ~100ish songs we knew that they kept messing up. Basically they got the yips. We ended up just starting with a four count on the sticks.

love it! am a keyboardist myself but found this very useful. thanks! keep all these videos coming! :)

Thank you so much for this video Adam. I play in WAY too many cover bands and the one thing I suffer from is sometimes having a brain fart about a song(hence why I watched the video). I will say, I wish I played with professional enough players that would/could actually follow a chart but there’s a couple of projects this would be super beneficial for. It also doesn’t help that I can be the bassist or guitarist based on need.

This is great! I'm learning how to learn

Love Your Music Edutainment Channel! boop boop be bop

WOW.... Transcribing th The Cure song right away like the first time you listened to it so fast. That is impressing.. I would kill to have half of your knowledge.

You just made my life so much easier. Thank you

I learn a lot from these videos, as a guitar guy. Huzzah!

I love how he starts to giggle when the song is playing.:3

Adam, you inspired me to learn how to read sheet music - thank you! Now, onto actually sinking my teeth into it. ;)

I play the piano! This is great, thank you so much for this!

Here’s the problem. I’m hooked on these videos. I love theory. But I’m watching when I should be practicing the piano!

Great stuff adam. Very important points!

Thanks for that, I think it´s sparked a little tinder of the transcriber in me :) helpful and inspiring stuff in general dude

An interesting video would be compare and contrast learning/charting/transcribing Jazz vs Rock tunes. Thanks for all you do!

Thanks, I'm a big fan of your content but this one is indispensable

I really like this idea of learning more songs by writing my own charts. (Most keyboard charts are garbage anyway.) I've got a few songbooks, but somehow they feel hard to crack open. I like the suggestion of adding lots of song-specific details. I also appreciate the "no repeats" rule, which my jazz teacher in college insisted on, but I have not always adhered to. But those guitarists... What do you use when the transcription gets trickier? I personally like to use Audacity to transcribe because 1) by default it will start playing at the same place every time until you move the cursor (useful for listening to one section many times), 2) it can slow the music down without changing the pitch, and 3) it makes it very easy to loop sections. Sometimes slowed down and looped is the only way I can get a tricky passage!

Awesome man. Studying at Bimm London doing my Bmus Guitar in popular music studies (Music Degree to those who don't know). Have sight reading and reading lectures there and this is a handy video to approaching my notation as its something i tend to struggle with. So yeah good video! Cheers!

I love this video so much! Thank you for the great advice

Transcribing like a boss!

Great videos man! can you make one about transcribing more complicated stuff like jazz and ways to identify chords?

@Arkery

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if he ever addressed you or you ever found the answer but the easiest way to identify chords that are complex is by their color (extensions) when you strum or play a chord enough times try to contextualize what "emotion" that chord brings out and you'll be able to identify they chord much more often, in fact it's the easiest way to identify modal and exotic scales as well! develop your ear and you'll be doing this in no time!

@maxonmendel5757

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6Vor7mdeMvNlrA.html

i play the tuba/sousa in a lot of groups, i find all of your videos very helpful even though i don't play the bass

Love seeing the space bassist intro ! Almost forgot about him….

Hey Adam... Your channel is great, keep the good work up..

Dude. Great stuff!!!!

That's just a great lesson! Keep it up!

Coolest intro ever 🔥

Great video! I agree that most music books, fake books are not accurate (full of mistakes) and definitely should never rely on those. I also transcribe everything myself (over 3000 songs so far in all styles (jazz, pop, rock, latin, etc.) I can quickly figure out any chords, rhythm, form very quickly and write it down. To speed things up, I usually use a software called "transcribe!" by Seventh String. It's basically an audio editor that has been specifically designed for transcribing music. You can add labels over the waveforms which helps to quickly move from one section to another (for ex, for comparing two verses or to verify the form of a song). there's also some audio tools such as speed/pitch changer, some EQ, that is pretty usefull when the bass in the mix is muddy or too low. You can cut all the highs and transpose an octave higher so you can hear clearly a very low bass part. It's really worth it because it can save lots of time!

4:10 - 'pitbull starts rapping about nothing in particular...'

This is great, thanks!

Like this video. I do the same since the beginning of my gigger (can I write that?) career. I learned early not to trust what we find on the net. And most of the time I even take it on my time to think of the other musicians and give them (impose them, actually) my chart for I know they can be lazy and only have approximate charts or worst, charts from internet. I would like to add to this an essential benefit of making our own charts, it's that it is also the faster way to memorize a new song in short notice.

Thank you Adam. I love your videos! I play the violin (also in weddings) and I found this video very helpful. Now I'm trying to find another dimension where you are a violinist and have the "Adam Neely's violin lessons" on youtube = ) it would be great haha.

Random statement, but I really wish I could watch your hands whenever you use Sibelius. You have the best shortcuts. You made took measures away from each line, and, made a new page without even gong to the tabs. Teach me, oh great one! LOL! Also, I did watch your Sibelius training video, several times, but I'm pretty sure you didn't these two steps. Anyhow, yeah.

I do pretty much the same thing but for synth parts, which require a couple more layers of fun. If you haven't already, take a look at Anytune Pro iPad for playing back the original track while transcribing.

Holy shit this is exhausting. I've never used one of these programs I've gotten one chart done in 4 hours.

@logicape

6 жыл бұрын

But I bet the next one only took you three. :)

Hey Adam! Love your videos! Can you maybe make a video about transcription? I think being able to transcribe and input efficiently is an important part of being a good musician.

Hey, Adam - was wondering if you could do a lecture on the subject of modes. What is their function and how are they used in playing/creating/writing bass lines. Great videos! Closest thing to any other bass video series would be to compare what Gary Willis's "101 Bass Tips" is to bass lesson books! Love your playing!

Finally after three minutes, there is a different chord. What an amazing feat of musical composition!

Please do more of these as different songs will require different approaches, please do a piano one!!! I know you're a bass player but I think I have heard you mention you have done charts for other instruments, also there's a lot more notes to transcribe! Thanks for the uploads!!

Hey so I'm a bassist in high school who's been committed to his jazz band for quite a while and I also lead my school a cappella group as a side thing. I have absolute pitch which makes me also good and recognizing odd chord or notes or licks or whatever. With my jazz group we've formed this trio my rhythm sect that plays some weddings. At this point we've got some solid experience, but personally I feel like I want to get more efficient with my transcription skills and accuracy especially with denser tunes. I've also been working to get my reading to a solid place and I've been playing piano as well. I'm sure you can relate, as a junior currently I find myself in places where I don't have enough time in my day to write out super clear charts like that anymore. I guess this is more of a musical memory question and maybe I should just go practice but what's your tactic transcribing a tune that's a bit more complex, of course more time is needed, but what are your thoughts.

@meh12131424253535342

8 жыл бұрын

Excuse typos... On an IPhone, but especially tunes with big chords in inversion, what's your technique for that kind of stuff.

I want to crawl into your intro and live there

I really Enjoyed this video thanks your for the information you are sharing

You had a great idea for a new song at 5:57 -- "Just Like Kevin". Ha!

When Liszt first met the young Brahms, the latter brought his first compositions with him. Liszt played them on sight and said he was a talented composer. Sight reading is super important and a tool for any good musician.

Adam, thank you for mentioning Muse Score! (open-source can get the job done)

Thank you this is awesome.

The subtle humor is GOLD. 😂