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@RobertMatichak

6 ай бұрын

@christiaanvanhemert Great videos! I really enjoy listening to them while I’m transcribing! 😂

@ChristiaanvanHemert

6 ай бұрын

Haha great and thanks! 🙏

@RobertMatichak

6 ай бұрын

One more thing. I do listen a lot before transcribing (not on paper but on guitar). I don’t try to sing, however I hear the guitar solo in my head. So it’s as if I’m playing the solo in my head. It’s like singing although I can hear it regardless of the complexity. It helps a lot. Thanks again.

Please continue with this series. Right or wrong this type of discussion is extremely healthy for everyone involved. ALL teaching methods should put to the "is it useable" test. Everyone, both students and teachers, are generally overwhelmed with the amount of things were are "supposed" to know. Paralysis by analysis is possibly the most difficult hurdle in jazz education because it's impossible to do it all....

@ChristiaanvanHemert

6 ай бұрын

Thanks man!

The day I felt empowered to transcribe anything I heard + liked was my first in person with you Christiaan. Many thanks man. TB

Hi Christiaan, love your channel. I Know a great piano player who hasn’t transcribed much, but can play all the bebop standards with ease. He learnt them by reading. I supose that gave him enough language to be able to improvise at his level.

@ChristiaanvanHemert

5 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

Though I do sometimes disagree with some of your opinions, I enjoy your content It is interesting to observe our different approaches as you are European, mostly play gypsy jazz and played violin where I am from Texas, USA and play mostly hard bop I also very rarely transcribe entire solos, but usually only phrases I like or if there is a line I really want to analyze

@ChristiaanvanHemert

6 ай бұрын

Thank you though even among academics in Europe I'm an outlier with my views haha. I think more like a Sinti musician but with the academic background to explain in proper music terminology when necessary!

@blindteo5808

6 ай бұрын

@ChristiaanvanHemert I was also educated in classical music, but also learned jazz on the bandstand Before losing most of my vision about 20 years ago I was an excellent reader Probably why I enjoy your content as I can tell you are educated I will probably join the Discord soon

Transcription, although not necessary in my opinion, is the BEST thing to do if you wanna learn to improvise. When I started playing guitar, I would have to hunt down transcriptions. I remember when TAB first appeared, ffIs, I was SO HAPPY, cause I couldn't read music. I eventually figured out, and it took me years to realize this, that the transcriptions in the beginning were almost NEVER right. Today, with the technology available, the players, I'm guessing, don't know how lucky they are to have these tools and transcriptions available. I don't feel the players have to learn the whole solos, just the phrases they like, this will make them surely understand the mechanics of soloing and improvisation. From a Gypsy jazz standpoint, for me, I had to learn what the top players were doing, and I had studied, played jazz, and transcribed two Joe Pass songs, which I played note for note, and have posted them on my facebook, but, when it came to soloing and improvising in Gypsy jazz, I couldn't stand my improvisations when I tried to play in the Gypsy jazz style. The way to really see the Gypsy style vs the regular Jazz style would be, give two players a waltz style tune chord progression, One they've NEVER heard, and let the Gypsy jazz person solo over those changes, and say a jazz player that plays in the Mark Whitfield style, the gypsy player will easily gravitate and be able to play those changes, the other player will to, but they won't sound as comfortable or as good in my opinion as the Gypsy player. This will REALLY be noticeable with the waltz's; not standard tunes so much as like, I'll see you in my dreams." Also, if the regular player doesn't have those diminished, hybrid phrases down, The waltz won't flow and connect properly. This just my opinion based on my own experience.

I think people misunderstand your channel and that's why they like to whine in your direction. It's not just you, any channel that sticks to a particular idiom gets flak from people that aren't the target audience. Chris Parks is all about Barry Harris and people that don't get it, don't get it. I follow a lot of bluegrass teachers and they talk about guitar as if bluegrass methods are "THE way" to play, full stop. All these channels offer similar advice but a lot of contradicting advice too. Bluegrass guys really bristle at any picking method that isn't strict alternate picking and claim you cannot keep time if you don't do it. I bet you feel some kind of way about that lol. I feel like your material is very directed at exactly the approach for a guitarist to quickly be able to play good lines and useful rhythms over gypsy jazz, and of course when that idiom clashes with someone else's there's going to be friction. I think a lot of people could stand to zoom out of their own paradigm from time to time and understand there are myriad approaches to music and genres and there cannot possibly be one single best approach. If there were then the music that came out of that approach would be the only music we play! And that's just not the case.

I think there's a different view on transcrubing between you and Adam. it seems you're taking it more literally, writing it down and all, and he's using it more in the sense of learning