Best products from r/transcribe
We found 4 comments on r/transcribe discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 4 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.
1. Casio CTK-3500 61-Key Touch Sensitive Portable Keyboard with Power Supply,Black
- Dance music Mode w/50 built-in dance music rhythms
- Chordata play app integration
- 48 note polyphony
- Step-up Lesson system
- 400 tone, 100 rhythms. Auto power off
Features:
2. The Beatles: Complete Scores (Transcribed Score)
212 songs1,136 pagesHardcoverComplete Beatles music scores, in both notation and tablature, plus guitar chords and complete lyricsThis special music book contains every song written and/or recorded by The Beatles (including covers), transcribed exactly as played by the Fab Four
3. Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza Songbook
- 13 Nema 5-15r Outlets (1 Front Facing/12 Rear)
- Powers Multiple Loads In 19" Rack-mount, Wall-mount & Under-counter Applications Such As Inter-networking, Pc Systems, Telecommunications, Audio/video, Security & Sound Reinforcement
- 15a Single Phase 120v Basic Power Distribution Unit
- 1u Horizontal Rack-mount Format Installs In One Rack Space
- Mounting Flanges Support Installation In 2 & 4 Post Racks, With Additional Support For Wall-mount & Under-counter Installation Formats
- Safe, reliable power distribution ideal for distributing alternate waveform UPS or generator power in rack enclosures, network closets and more
- 15 amp electrical capacity with circuit breaker
- 13 outlets (12 rear-facing outlets, 1 front-facing outlet)
- Switch-free design prevents the potential for accidental shutoff of connected loads
- Versatile all-metal cabinet with detachable mounting flanges allows wallmount, under-counter and 19 inch rackmount mounting in both 1U or 0U formats
Features:
I expect you will be fine for that purpose with a ~$100 keyboard. Probably many would work, but I have used the ctk 3500 and it was quite adequate for that kind of thing. The main hazard is owning an instrument like this seems to predispose the user to upgraditis. The fact you never see used ones offered at much of a discount, to me suggests selling one might be easy.
I don't know about websites but here are two books for The Beatles and Queen that may be good for your purposes.
Beatles: https://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Complete-Scores-Transcribed-Score/dp/0793518326
Queen: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/best-of-queen-transcribed-score-sheet-music/5679977
https://www.amazon.com/Esperanza-Spalding-Songbook-ebook/dp/B00Y7PHK8Y Here's a link to it!
I actually have read every author you mention. I own the Edwards/Krims/Miyakawa book (I could send it to you if you need,) and have read Adams. Let me take their deficiencies one by one:
>Edwards
Edwards approach is a typographical one. It's ironic you mention me as cramming rap into notation, when really it's they who are doing so. As you see in an example of Edwards' "flow diagram" here, he's simply claiming things that aren't true. The word "got" there doesn't land on the beat; it's off it. To even argue that this makes the music simpler to read is to lose everything about rap that makes it interesting.
His system is more for the recreation of rap performance, which, as I've explicitly said, is not my goal. You can tell from the subtitle of his book: "Advanced Techniques," as in "advanced techniques for aspiring rappers to use." His first book is situated in a similar manner, by grouping his interviews with rappers into instructive headings. Two of his chapters are titled "Writing With Other People," and "Performing Live," as you can see.
Meanwhile, my own goal is to illuminate the nature of rap, such as through it's complex rhythms, and rapping behind the beat. This is what my notation does do as it sits on a page.
>Adams
Adams actually does use Western notation to represent rap lines at some point, as you can see down the page here for Dr. Dre on "100 Bars And Runnin." There, Adams groups Dr. Dre's notes into 3-notes of straight 16th notes. That rhythm is simply wrong.
He does, however, also use that typographical system. Again, the rhythms are wrong. They aren't based on straightforward Western rhythms at all (Western rhythms such as in dividing the beat into simple, straightforward 16th notes.) You can't learn much with this beyond how many beats there are to a bar. The rhythms are in non-Western groupings.
>Miyakawa and Krims
I largely have the same critiques of Miyakawa and Krims that I do for the others. It's ugly, it confuses rap's actual nature, and it's incorrect.
What's more, this typographical system has insidious, if unintended, consequences. It encourages people to think of rap as less than a full music. Have you ever asked yourself why people never refer to rap as a melody? It has 1.) Rhythm, and 2.) Melody, even if its an untraditional melody. This leads to insidious claims like the one by that Duke Professor here
>These books all use that notation system and are by well-credentialed writers:
Fine, if you're really into pedigree for the sake of authority, I went to Duke and got a music degree with a concentration in music theory. So there ;) I've also presented at music theory conferences, and been published in "Eminem and Rap, Race, Poetry"