Transcription forum?

[On Sugar Hill]

Hey JazzGuitar.be. I don't post here much, I'm more of a lurker. I think it would be a nice touch to this forum if we had a transcription section. It'd be a sub-forum that could have transcriptions of solos/chord melodies that people have found, or written out themselves. That's one of the reasons I love this site, is to see what kind of stuff everyone is transcribing and learning from it. If we could have that all be in one section, it would be really cool. What do you guys think?

[Banksia]

Good idea. Failing that, how about a forum convention where posters use the word in the thread title: Transcription - Jimmy Raney - Oleo?

[M-ster]

Originally Posted by Banksia

Good idea. Failing that, how about a forum convention where posters use the word in the thread title: Transcription - Jimmy Raney - Oleo?

Both ideas work, but if there was a dedicated section, we would be spared some redundancy (i.e. "Transcription - " in multiple titles) ...

[JohnW400]

You would need to be concerned about copyright. Even solos I believe.

I've asked this question here before and I even checked with ASCAP. You have to get permission from the author. You might be able to claim fair use under education but I don't think that there are any lawyers in this forum that would even offer an opinion.

[On Sugar Hill]

Originally Posted by Banksia

Good idea. Failing that, how about a forum convention where posters use the word in the thread title: Transcription - Jimmy Raney - Oleo?

Thta would work great too. Then we could just use the search tool.

Another idea too would be big threads with transcriptions, for example:

In the chord melody forum, we have a thread that says "Chord Melody PDFs only". We could have a thread like that called "Chord Melody Transcriptions only"

Same with the improv forum, we could have a thread that said like "Transcribed solo PDFs" or something.

[Banksia]

Send Dirk a PM and see what he thinks. If there are any problems with the copyright, he's the one who'll cop it.

[ejwhite09]

As long as no one tries to make a buck, I'm 99% sure, we'd be covered by fair use, as the evidence of the use of the material for research and scholarship would be blatant on the forum. Of course I think Dirk is in Europe and I think fair use in a strictly American judicial concept.

[FatJeff]

I like this idea. I've got several transcriptions I could contribute.

[wizard3739]

Has anyone here ever seen a transcription of "A Face Like Yours" from Ed Bickert's "At The Garden Party"? BTW, A transcription thread is a great idea, perhaps long overdue on our great forum.

wiz

[markerhodes]

Yeah, I agree. A transcription forum / section is a great idea.