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A jazz transcription is a transcription of jazz track, pure and simple. It acts as a record for any listener, performer or admirer of a piece of music, so that they are able to analyse the solo, learn it if they wish and take from it what they will. Used correctly, jazz transcriptions enable the student to replicate their favourite artists in what they play, not just over the tunes from which the transcriptions derive, but over any other tune. Particular phrases can be picked out of the performance, transposed, adapted and used by the more advanced student. It can be done in freehand without staves, simply by recording the notes played, for example ‘A, Bb, >Bb’. This doesn’t allow note duration or rests to be recorded however and by far the preferred method of transcribing jazz solos is to notate it on staves. At Jazznote, I transcribe the solos using in regular format to a very high standard. Please click here for a sample of a piano solo.