
Transcription - Three O'Clock in the Morning (Dexter Gordon)
I've been working on transcription for a long time, as it is well recognised as part of the key towards unlocking the tradition of jazz improvisation. However, I've never before found a way of transcribing that actually works for me. For years, I thought that just working out language and solos that I liked would be enough and that by some kind of osmosis it would transform my playing. I tried whole solos, I tried individual lines in many keys, I tried writing it out and I tr