Robert, you asked me how I transcribe and here is my approach: I just tried out how it suits me.

It's only the second time I've done it now, first your solo from Jam 6 and now from Jam11. I'll definitely keep doing it, because I learn so much from it.

I use: DAW, video player with interactive zoom, music paper, printout of the fretboard with the corresponding scale.

I use paper and pencil and not Guitar Pro because I can correct by hand faster and easier.

How I do it:

I load the video into my DAW (Reaper). The soundtrack appears there, which I then underlay with a click souce. This allows me to listen to the song and at the same time follow how the notes are distributed over the individual bars.

On a printed music paper with tabs, I then use a pencil to mark the notes I hear only as upbeats and downbeats, bar by bar.

Sometimes I also mark the notes I hear according to note height or bending (e.g. “ti”, ‘ta’ or “hui” for bending), whether they are eighth notes or quarter notes, triplets, whether I hear the notes short or long, and so on.

Then I load the solo into my video player and use the interactive zoom to focus on the corresponding spot on the fretboard.

I let the solo run slower, read off your finger positions and transfer them to my prepared sheet of music above the prepared markings for the upstrokes and downstrokes.

Next to my music paper I have a printed sheet with the corresponding scale (all over the fretboard) to check whether the notes I read matched the scales.

So I read off bar by bar. If a passage is too difficult, I first continue with the bars that are easier.

If I have already transcribed a few bars, I check with the guitar whether the notes are correct and improve them accordingly. I continue like this until I have transcribed everything.

If there are parts that are too difficult for me to play, I leave these passages open and try to change the notes at the very end to make these parts playable for me.

I learn a lot in the process. For example, if you have used notes that are not in the D minor pentatonic, then I also write down whether it is a major 6th, for example, or the blue note and so on.

I hope I haven't made it too complicated and that you can understand how I do it.

Best regards Birgit