Lesson Request - How To Transcribe A Song, Figuring out the chords/riffs, timing, note durations, etc., of a song Options

[MattG]

Hello. I thought it would be great to have some lessons (maybe a series) on how to transcribe a song - when you hear a song that you really like, what steps do you take as a guitarist to figure out how to play it? Is there a particular piece of software or gear that you use to slow down the song in order to master those fast licks, complex chords, or heavy riffs? Are there any tricks to duplicating that famous guitarist's tone? Etc.

Maybe one of the instructors could even take another instructor's "famous" lesson and show how they would go about transcribing it if they didn't have any guitar tabs for it... Or maybe one instructor could post an mp3 file of a piece they're working on, and another instructor could do a lesson as they are actually transcribing it.

I think this would be a great lesson series: start with a fairly simple lesson and then do an intermediate and an advanced one.

Thanks,
MattG

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This post has been edited by MattG: Jul 31 2008, 02:00 PM