That’s literally the best way to transcribe it. The “Dotted-Eighth Sixteenth” pattern is prevalent through the solo, so adding a staccato to that pattern is not an issue. It would be more confusing to suddenly have an “Eighth Sixteenth-Rest Sixteenth” pattern thrown in suddenly just to include a staccato.
@@gameforest9360Having a dotted note with a staccato is not correct from a music notation point of view. You may think that it's not that deep, but in "music preparation", small mistakes like this could make the difference between getting the gig or not. I'm sure you know that a staccato mark means "play half the duration". Well, in this case, you basically tell the soloist to play a 1.5 sixteen note which is very confusing. Even if that is what you hear in the piece, you do not have to go that much into details. The goal of an effective transcription is not to showcase your miticulous ear training skills, but rather provide other musicians a correct and professional score ready for performance. I see two alternatives for this scenario. 1. Just remove the staccato. Again, just because that is what you hear in the piece, doesn't mean you have to have it in the transcription. Let the soloist interpret the phrasing to their liking and if they wanna take a breath, they will. 2. If you still wanna indicate a brief rest, I agree that adding a 16th note rest would cause more confusion. Consider adding a breath mark (,) right before the target note. This will show the soloist that they are supposed to have a small breath in between the notes. Hope this helps.
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Another nice job Brody
Nice transcription. Personally, I would not put a staccato on a dotted eight note. It creates more confusion.
What would you suggest in its place?
That’s literally the best way to transcribe it.
The “Dotted-Eighth Sixteenth” pattern is prevalent through the solo, so adding a staccato to that pattern is not an issue.
It would be more confusing to suddenly have an “Eighth Sixteenth-Rest Sixteenth” pattern thrown in suddenly just to include a staccato.
@@gameforest9360Having a dotted note with a staccato is not correct from a music notation point of view. You may think that it's not that deep, but in "music preparation", small mistakes like this could make the difference between getting the gig or not. I'm sure you know that a staccato mark means "play half the duration". Well, in this case, you basically tell the soloist to play a 1.5 sixteen note which is very confusing. Even if that is what you hear in the piece, you do not have to go that much into details. The goal of an effective transcription is not to showcase your miticulous ear training skills, but rather provide other musicians a correct and professional score ready for performance. I see two alternatives for this scenario.
1. Just remove the staccato. Again, just because that is what you hear in the piece, doesn't mean you have to have it in the transcription. Let the soloist interpret the phrasing to their liking and if they wanna take a breath, they will.
2. If you still wanna indicate a brief rest, I agree that adding a 16th note rest would cause more confusion. Consider adding a breath mark (,) right before the target note. This will show the soloist that they are supposed to have a small breath in between the notes.
Hope this helps.