Video Guitar Lesson 15: Tips For Transcribing, Arranging & Figuring Out Solos By Actively Listening

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In this lesson, Dan and I take a look at the outro solo for "Feel Like Makin' Love" by Bad Company - a song which I am covering with my band. During the lesson we go through 9 tips on transcribing from Dan and we look at 9 licks from the solo. Dan shares his ideas with me on tone and effects for songs and also the different ways to approach different sorts of solos. Timings for Video Guitar Lesson 15 - on transcribing: 00:03:18 Boss RC30 Loopstation - I talk about various features on it 00:04:32 I overdub with the part Dan came up with before 00:05:41 Dan's first improvisation over the riff 00:08:42 A word on active listening and the value of ear training 00:13:24 Comedy - the dots (correction: not Smith and Jones but French and Saunders) 00:14:40 Tip 1: You need to play the song alongside the tab 00:18:29 Tip 2: When you try to transcribe something do it in small chunks 00:23:56 Tip 3: Check out live versions and alternate versions of the song 00:24:17 Sometimes YouTube guitar lessons can be illuminative 00:24:48 Tip 4: Pick something simple and work at your level 00:25:12 Tip 5: Listen for the chords - can you work them out? 00:25:37 Summary of Tip 2 00:26:08 Tip 6: Stitch the parts together and learn the piece 00:27:05 (tip 1 summary) check tabs against the songs 00:27:17 Tip 7: Try to actively listen to different parts / instruments 00:28:33 Tip 8: write out the structure of songs and parts 00:29:26 Tip 9: Music theory helps your transcribing 00:31:36 We're going to listen to the track and lift some of the lciks from it 00:33:16 Lick 1 00:34:42 Lick 2 00:35:14 Tip 10: It's good to write down what you hear 00:36:59 Lick 3 00:39:54 Lick 3 broken down 00:50:42 Lick 4 00:54:22 Lick 5 00:54:58 Lick 6 00:55:04 Lick 7 00:55:12 Lick 8 00:55:33 Lick 9 00:56:03 Lick 10 00:56:46 Three different types of solos 00:57:32 Solo 1: Part of the song 00:58:44 Solo 2: Has become an absolute classic and so should be learnt and retained 00:59:58 Solo 3: Free to mess with but there are licks and phrases that ought to be in there 01:03:11 Solo 4: Improvised and very free to mess with 01:03:43 Example of going nuts and over the top with Bad Company riff 01:05:53 Crazy Little Thing Called Love 01:06:53 Purple Rain solo