hi,
just attended a jazz weekend course which was fantastic!! the instructor touched on a method he used for recognizing any single note or interval by relating it to a sequence of notes he could "hear" internally. there were several  of these sequences of notes covering all 8 notes of the major scale. in the scale of c one of these sequences would be c down to d, another was f to e to c and there were 2 or 3 ascending patterns covering the upper notes which i can't remember. it seems this would be a good tool to use for transcribing. as i understand it you could develop the skill of transcribing music without even having your instrument with you.

is there anyone familiar with this method who could fill me in on  the gaps in my knowledge and give any other tips on how to develop this skill?
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that sounds really intresting, id love to know more on how to do that because of the ammount of time waste on train journeys to college.
excellent!  that's called "ear training".  i can't imagine being able to transcribe without it.
here are some well known intervals i just got from a web page:
minor 2nd ascending – entertainer, white christmas, oh danny boy, jaws
theme
minor 2nd descending – fur elise
major 2nd ascending – frere jacques, sound of music, silent night, “do” a
deer, rudolph
major 2nd descending – three blind mice, mary had a little lamb
minor 3rd ascending – greensleves (what child is this?), be our guest
minor 3rd descending – star spangled banner
major 3rd ascending – kumbaya, anchor’s aweigh, marine’s hymn, sweet hour
of prayer
major 3rd descending – swing low, sweet chariot
perfect 4th ascending – amazing grace, here comes the bride
perfect 4th descending – born free
perfect 5th ascending – my favorite things, chim-chimney, twinkle,
twinkle, little star
perfect 5th descending – flinstones, feelings
minor 6th ascending – love story, go down moses
minor 6th descending – love story
major 6th ascending – my bonnie lies over the ocean, it came upon themidnight clear, nbc theme
major 6th descending –
minor 7th ascending – there’s a place for us, star trek theme
minor 7th descending –
major 7th ascending – the never ending story
major 7th descending –
perfect octave – somewhere over the rainbow, chestnuts roasting on an
open fire
nobody ever wrote a song beginning with an augmented 4th or diminished fifth descending?

if not i guess i'll have to be the first :)

i think it's the song from west side story "maria" that begins with an augmented 4th ascending (resolving to the p5).
just found this site if anyone interested in training their ears. www.good-ear.com
definitely "maria" -- i can't think of a tune that begins with the inversion (diminished fifth)...seventh bar of "yesterdays" is easy to remember, but doesn't quite fit with the other examples.
a decending diminished fifth would be the first two note's in michael jackson's "don't stop til you get enough"  (hee-hee!)
hi,
just attended a jazz weekend course which was fantastic!! the instructor touched on a method he used for recognizing any single note or interval by relating it to a sequence of notes he could "hear" internally. there were several  of these sequences of notes covering all 8 notes of the major scale. in the scale of c one of these sequences would be c down to d, another was f to e to c and there were 2 or 3 ascending patterns covering the upper notes which i can't remember. it seems this would be a good tool to use for transcribing. as i understand it you could develop the skill of transcribing music without even having your instrument with you.

is there anyone familiar with this method who could fill me in on  the gaps in my knowledge and give any other tips on how to develop this skill?
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