[QUOTE=Pat Clare;1378697]
Quote Originally Posted by Mick-7
If you don't have a lead sheet for a tune, you'll have to transcribe the melody and chord changes first before you can get to the solo. So if you do have a lead sheet, or you're suspicious of it's accuracy, just ignore it and start form scratch.

Besides, the heads to some tunes are at least as complicated as the solos, e.g., this Sam Rivers tune I transcribed.
Quote Originally Posted by Pat Clare
Mick, great transcription you have some big ears, I've listened to this song many times!!
Well thank you, it's nice to meet another odd-ball who likes Sam Rivers bizarre tunes. I saw him once in concert at Keystone Korner in San Francisco and he blew me away, became a big fan of him then. I never saw anyone have so much fun on stage, he was like a child at play.

I actually did this transcription decades ago, from the LP - which I no longer have so it was great to find it on YouTube. I always start by transcribing the bass line to identify the chords. I couldn't have transcribed it from the YouTube video, the audio quality is too poor - that's true of almost all YouTube videos.