Transcribe! - How I Learn Songs Fast and Accurately By Ear

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I've been using the Transcribe! program for many years and I can't rave enough about how great it is. By using the speed change, EQ, looping, tuning, and other functions of this program, you can really enhance your natural listening abilities to pick up songs, bass lines, etc. much more easily and accurately.

In this video I go through a few of my favorite ways to use Transcribe!, and then tour through some of the other possibilities within this awesome, affordable piece of software.

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what's up guys josh Fox screen here with
a little bonus video for you i just
wanted to show you this program that i
use to learn songs and transcribe stuff
and figure out difficult passages and
i've been using this for years and I
just want to make sure that you guys all
know about it because I really think
that it should be in every musicians
toolkit
it's called transcribed with an
exclamation mark very important and
works on windows mac and linux it's
pretty cheap and like i said i've been
using it for years and I just wanted to
hit you guys to some of the cool stuff
you can do with this program in the
interest of learning songs more
accurately more efficiently
whatever your purpose may be so as an
example song here I have the intro music
for my videos are normally use etc etc
so i just wanted to show you some of the
functions that i normally use this
program for and then some of the other
stuff it can do first main two things
that i say i would use this program for
is slowing it down over here we've got
speed markers and you can do more
fine-tuning which will show you later
but if i want to hear this
seventy percent just click there and
without changing the pitch you can hear
it slowed down
there's full speed and there's slow down
so you can do those changes live without
stopping playback and you can hear there
is some quality loss when I slow it down
here
what you are going to get but actually
if you have higher quality audio files
coming in then you will not hear as much
quality loss when you slow it down with
some tracks
you know you can go as low as 30 to 50
percent and still get a you know
something's decipherable with your ear
and actually another thing i use this
for besides just slowing things down so
that it's easier to pick them up by ear
as i'll actually speed stuff up so that
i can learn to play things faster than I
need to and then when i play them at
normal speed they feel easy so if I
tried to learn this it 150 which would
be kind of silly
then when you played 100 will feel more
relaxed so that's a cool trick to second
main function i like to use here is
looping we've got some different little
loop buttons here and basically I just
click this button here to start the loop
and then click it again to end
and then I can fine-tune it
get a nice little rhythm there and then
I can slow down also
and that's something I've done a lot to
learn
difficult chunks you know if I'm trying
to learn a solo and there's a really
fast run i'll just isolate the fast run
and drag it
besides using a and B button you can
just drag little loops like that and
then you just hit space bar for playback
and so you can make little loops however
long or short you want them and then
change the speed and it makes it a lot
easier to learn difficult stuff and I
don't feel like it counts as cheating
because you still ultimately have to use
your ear
so those are two basic functions if i
click the FX button here it will take me
into some more detailed changes i can
make another thing i really love to do
when I'm trying to learn bass parts but
you can do this with anything is to use
the eq function which there's a few
presets here
like say that I wanted to make a play
along track for myself with less of the
base in the mix then I would just
double-click the bass remove here it'll
take out those frequencies and then if i
had playback
you can hear it takes out a lot of those
bass frequencies obviously it's just
working off the the general stereo mix
it doesn't actually take out the exact
bass instrument so you can have to fine
tune that depending on whether you're
listening to you know Jocko or James
Jamerson or get ely all of their tones
kind of reside in a different spectrum
but i'm also you do the flip side of
that just listen to the bass frequencies
and that can help to pick out root notes
of chords and that kind of stuff so
that's super helpful so so far we've
covered eq and speed here's the
fine-tuning with the speed so you can
get actually at any percentage between
five percent and two hundred percent and
also there's a little button here called
analog clock which if you like slowing
stuff down and hearing the pitch change
then then you can enjoy the analog clock
function but normally you would want to
have that unchecked
so that's most of what i use the program
for some other cool stuff you can do if
stuff is a if the track has stuff pan
correctly you can create karaoke tracks
for yourself just by using this little
phase switch
that's cool tuning this is awesome if
you ever want to play along with the
beatles you'll find that their
recordings are often a few cents a sharp
or flat I think usually flat
so what you can do is just stick the
record and transcribe and then adjust
the tuning of the track you play along
with so rather than having to detune
your instrument in order to play along
with songs you like you can just tune up
here and then if you wanted to you could
actually go to the file menu and export
the sound file with those tuning
adjustments for future reference you not
to come to transcribe every time
also if you play a song with the band in
a different key then is on the original
recording
here's the semitone slider so you know
say songs normally and see and your
sister wants to do it in a just drag it
down three half steps and there you have
it
you know it makes us sound a little
weird like I was doing this with time
after time that Cindy opportune and
Cindy loppers voice three a step slower
sounds kind of like a man
which is funny but you know it works for
when you need it
also you can get a reference node over
here
pretty straightforward to change the
volume change the pitch
you know if you're ever second-guessing
yourself on whether you've picked out a
note correctly or not you can use that
function transposition function i don't
really use it basically just affects
this little piano keyboard what those
are tuned to if you want it to transpose
those for you to do you know trumpeter
out this action whatever you can do that
but i don't really find that to be very
important but basically between the e
cueing the looping and the speed
changing
it's very easy to pick out stuff that
normally might have trouble learning by
ear
you know you can even go note by note
just make a little loop slow down and
just check yourself note by note if you
really want to get perfect transcription
the last thing i'll show you I guess if
you want to cheat a little bit
you can select a passage or a point on
the spectrum just by clicking and it
will show you a frequency spectrum and
give you some guesses of what note of
things that has let me expand that a
little bit
so let's just go to the top of the
keyboard shortcut there and you can see
that it's having a little trouble with
this sample but with less wacky slap
bass stuff you can get a pretty good
like right here
that's actually dead on it got a DNF
sharp and that is actually the cord that
i was playing on base and over here it
will give you two guesses of what cord
is happening which works better you know
if you're analyzing pop music or
something and there's a chord on the
guitar and then the similar base note it
might help you figure out what the chord
progression is so that's some sort of
cheaters stuff you can use the way I
normally use this program is with all
that stuff just switched off and I don't
really use the piano keyboard very much
and I just kind of keep this like that
what else do i want to show you you can
easily zoom in and out on the how wide
the the track is you can zoom to
selection you can just do a fit whole
file thing you can change the vertical
zoom on the waveforms
another cool thing is if you're working
on something that's really quiet you can
actually just jack up the volume to two
hundred percent really easily and then
you've got a speed slider down here and
tuning slider down here so and there's a
lot of customization you can do with
with keyboard shortcuts and you can even
use external pedals and stuff if you're
really serious about your transcribing
so to get this program all you need to
do is I put a link in the description
and you will note that this is an
affiliate link which means that when you
decide to buy transcribe which you don't
have to do because there's a 30 day
trial but when you do eventually decide
that it is an amazing program and that
it's worth thirty nine dollars which is
all costs that affiliate link means that
i will get a cut of the price when you
pay for it doesn't add any to change the
price at all just means that I get a
little Commission so it's a nice way for
you to help support the Joslin youtube
channel that's something that you care
about and this program is awesome i mean
at the very least check out the 30 day
trial and just see how much it helps
your song learning process I really
feel that it's contributed a lot to my
musical development over the years and i
do not think that it's cheating because
you know i mean there's the spectrum and
the note guessing stuff that you can use
if you're really stuck
but using eq and speed changes and
looping you're still relying on your ear
at the end of the day so I think that it
does continue to contribute to your
overall development as a musician
while taking advantage of the fine tools
of the 21st century
so that's it check out transcribed it's
an awesome program
big thanks and cheers to the guy who
developed this is really just a great
program and i will see you guys next
week for another bass lesson
peace out