A Love Supreme - Full Album Transcription

Acknowledgement 0:02
Resolution 7:49
Pursuance 15:15
Psalm 26:00
Available on soundslice (See below)
In March 2020, the shelter-in-place orders encouraged me to revisit my old projects, so I decided to finally complete this project which I had done circa 2013-2014 while in college.
Some technical notes on the transcription:
The piano part was transcribed as accurately as I could within the limitations (factors include the harmonics of the bass, drums, saxophone, other notes on the piano, mic distortion, etc.). Most of the chords ended up being decided based on what is the most likely chord I thought M. Tyner would play given what he's played in other situations.
I don't transcribe drums often, so please forgive my lack of idiomatic notation.
The timings of J. Coltrane's lines are very complex so the rhythms written are approximations for readability's sake.
The occasional chord symbols beneath the piano part are there to show that M. Tyner is superimposing a different chord over the original chord that would typically happen at that measure.
Articulation:
A lot of the articulation is left out on purpose because it would be much to notate given that you can listen to it. There are still discrepancies in the level of detail of the articulations. If you choose to play this, hopefully some of them will help.
Psalm Poem:
I included the poem words because I think they are an important part of the music.
Endings:
The piano arpeggiation isn't notated in the endings of the parts; generally the chord written there is arpeggiated up and down the keyboard.
If you'd like the complete sheet music you can get it here (includes individual parts and parts in Concert):
gum.co/ggHl
Soundslice:
1: Acknowledgement www.soundslice...
2: Resolution www.soundslice...
3: Pursuance www.soundslice...
For more of my work go to my website: ogaloz.github.io/
Thanks to:
Spencer Brodhead for general advice and saxophone articulation advice.
/ @smbpuzzles9495
Tyler Harlow for looking over and correcting some of the bass parts:
www.tylerharlo...
Marcelo Perez for advice and corrections for the drum solos.
www.marceloper...

[@arigiancaterino1253]

Man, you are a legend! You should be given an award for this gift to the world

[@OmreeG]

Thank you Ari!

[@UziNanaj]

Thank u!! Yep amazing transcription

[@rhetrochips9471]

This is the greatest thing the internet has ever shown me, thank you so much

[@OmreeG]

Well, damn

[@pidgeon9024]

timestamps for practicing mcoy’s piano solo :-) 9:54 10:06 10:35

[@ANGELO-lj1ez]

my guy

[@DJGreenArrow]

Nice. I’m still serious about the bass transcription! Just haven’t had time! Great work. I appreciate that Coltrane’s words are superimposed on “Psalm”.

[@skiadikt]

thank you. spectacular achievement. never saw the words to psalm juxtaposed to the music. it was like going to church.

[@wojtekstankowski-pianojazz721]

You are Great, congratulations. I've been looking for it all my life and I've been living for 62 years. Greetings from the homeland of Chopin :-)

[@user-bt2jk2ix2h]

“I would like to show people the divine using a musical language that goes beyond words. I want to talk to people’s soul.” Damn Johnny, you truly succeded…

[@EberFilipeSunlight91]

A gift for everyone! No words, extraordinary! A thousand thanks!

[@franksjazz]

I'm extremely grateful for this.

[@OmreeG]

I'm grateful for your saying that

[@Myuzak]

This album has been with me since the 70's and I wore out countless tapes listening to it. It's one of the most beautiful and inspirational albums ever recorded and you're transcription gives a whole new meaning to it. I really hope lot's of other people will discover the beauty of this album through your efforts.

[@DevelopedPond]

You should definitely be awarded for this! Maybe put a donation link up? :)

[@contosonics3356]

Omree!! Dude!! Awesome and phenomenal work - and that is no jive! I'm so glad this came up on my radar- great to see what you've done - and needless to say, makes me so very joyful and proud of you!🙌🏼👏🏼🎶💜 And: Marcelo- Wow! Beautiful, you cats.

[@OmreeG]

Paul!!! Great to hear from you! Thank you!! I'm really glad you got to see it and I get to see your playing on youtube!

[@davidcavalari226]

God, that first movement... It's like McCoy Tyner just picked a chord shape and then started moving it around randomly, and yet somehow it works. Sorcery!

[@OmreeG]

Agreed! It's surprising

[@portalznqgcienciaartemarit595]

This Is a magnific work thank you so much, Love Supreme deserves this.

[@CharWorld-bm6di]

Thanks you so much for this incredible transcription! Excellent work!!!

[@OmreeG]

Thank you!!

[@skimanization]

I like this method of learning music, it's a great thing that ever happened on youtube. Thanks.

[@zlapidus]

Phenomenal work! Really looking forward to digging into this

[@clivecolledge4191]

What a gift you’ve given. Thank you.

[@dominikzydzik1287]

Man, I,m just schocked. Incredible work. For me you are legend of our era

[@jazzman1945ify]

בנאדם, תודה על העבודה שלך!

[@Karldon401]

Impressive! Thanks for sharing your hard work!

[@AndreasHertelJazzpiano]

This is epic! Thank you so much for the great work!

[@fredhewett3679]

Incredible.

[@diegocanadagutierrez580]

Damn man, this is the best thing I've seen in my whole life!!! You're simply the best!!!

[@lupash]

just wow. This is what I'm paying the internet bills for.

[@stevemenegaz9824]

Thank you so much for enriching your fellow musicians with this.

[@9ielts]

Wow, a legend is what you are! Thank you

[@OmgEinWahnsinniger]

This is absolut insane holy shit. I love you so much

[@cerimccoy]

Wow, this is really something!

[@cjacky38]

This is definitely a crazy work, thank you so much for this.

[@avi71229]

Resolution sounds so badass

[@zakkwyldesociety]

you're a savage dood this is amazing

[@mcbill7352]

Transcribing jazz is almost an oxymoron, but i am glad you have done it. Also McCoy Tyner is a genius

[@chasevervoort1231]

you are a legend for this

[@shj990512]

thanks my lord

[@sebastianalvarado3466]

:O wow! Thank you so much man! This is genius! How long did it take you? Do you have perfect pitch?

[@OmreeG]

I spent about a year transcribing it many evenings

[@archibaldgregory1348]

haha I was playing the second c# in the intro an octave too low. I was totally gotta expose you but of course I was the fool. Thank you!

[@alexanderanderson7127]

Thank you bless your heart

[@Thomas-yl8lb]

Brilliant

[@KIKEPURIZAGA]

Bravo !

[@vmertane]

Thank You! Lots of love and effort was needed to get all this written down. However, anybody who wants to learn properly this stuff must still pick these solos by ear and notate them on their own. Afterwards they can cross reference to your transcription. Jazz enters the brain through ears and exits through the instrument. Reading somebody else's transcriptions is okay too, but it is much less efficient than transcribing.

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

I don't believe that.

[@vmertane]

@@sheilamacdougal4874 You are free to believe whatever you want, but academic research and essays from established Jazz Masters and educators (for example Dave Liebman) prove my point. There is a whole lineage of the transcription process in jazz dating back to Lennie Tristano and his teachings.

[@sheilamacdougal4874]

@@vmertane There's a whole lineage, so what? There's also a whole lineage of some of the greatest jazz musicians who never spent time doing transcriptions. Of course listening to the masters, learning licks, reharm tricks, rhythmic and harmonic devices from them is essential. I'm talking about the laborious process of transcribing. Charlie Parker couldn't even read music.

[@bassofworship3640]

Sorry, Omree my English isn't so good... But what you have done with this Video is absolutely great great work ! Thank you very, verey much for this big, big artwork ! Thank you so much !!!

[@NMusicYT]

Fantastic work!

[@lukehendrickson6268]

Thanks for this! I’ve been looking for a transcription of that Garrison bass solo

[@adlfm]

Thanks a lot!!!

[@amrantomer8005]

Great work, thanks!

[@thiagobluesjazzguitar]

Thanks

[@adrianduchniak]

This is just amazing

[@alfredscoggins3206]

Extraordinary, thanks.

[@andresmorales5807]

Amazing!

[@jamesgeng2213]

this is heavy work brother

[@eladiodiaz2214]

Mil gracias!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@thiagobluesjazzguitar]

Amazing

[@TheSyndrrome]

this is incredible

[@muxant_academy]

Thanks.

[@thiagobluesjazzguitar]

Awesome

[@TheColtrane76]

great works /// thanx

[@ejohnsondebaufre]

This is utterly fantastic! Thank you so much. One question: is there a note missing at bar 174 (the first f# of the f#-a-f#-b sequence)? Or does Coltrane not play that first f#?

[@OmreeG]

Thanks! And good question! I don't hear that first F# in that instance, so I didn't notate it there. He might be playing it in a way such that it's disguised.

[@adrianholovaty]

Amazing. May I suggest putting this on Soundslice? That would make it much easier to learn/practice from than a KZbin video.

[@OmreeG]

Decided to try it out. Here's part 1: www.soundslice.com/slices/c-Ckc/

[@garylmullen1]

@@OmreeG Thank you for this and also for soundslice. I can't read music, but i'll be starting today!! Outstanding work

[@viktorponachevny9112]

🙏🏻😌

[@robertmcknightmusic]

I'm trying to play along on my guitar and Coltrane's sax seems to be a whole step too high. Is there a solo sax transcription in C?

[@OmreeG]

If you'd like the complete sheet music you can get it here (includes individual parts and parts in Concert): gum.co/ggHl

[@m4ttp4rk]

Could you enable print settings on the Soundslice for all 3? That'd be awesome.

[@francescomerli5731]

man nice job, but i would like to point out that some left hand piano voicings expecially during McCoy Tyner solo in Pursuance are actually different from what you wrote. but other than that super nice work!

[@OmreeG]

Ah, can you point out which chords in which measures?

[@francescomerli5731]

@@OmreeG minute 17:13 bar 589 and 590. the note of the last voicing of bar 589 and the first voicing of 590 are from bottom to top: Bb-C-F, instead of what you wrote (G-C-F). also minute 17:39 bar 621 and bar 633 you forgot the F in the Db-G-C voicing. also minute 18:21 bar 669 the voicing in the middle of the bar is not D-Ab-C# , but Eb-Ab-C#. and also i think in some other point of the transcription. maybe i'm wrong but i'm pretty sure

[@OmreeG]

@@francescomerli5731 You could be right, the difference is very subtle in those specific cases

[@fortnitedialectics2050]

is the sax in Bb?

[@mattycakesmuhammmad]

damn

[@isaacsewell8856]

Great job. But can't you include all the drum and bass too. Not just the piano and sax?

[@OmreeG]

Thanks for the feedback - I wanted to leave some of it out in order to allow the completion of the work to be done by others. I believe you can find transcriptions of the bass lines for Acknowledgement and Resolution on KZbin. Hopefully someone does the other parts completely and we can piece it all together.

[@isaacsewell8856]

Thanks for responding to my comment. You truly did a great job with this transcription. Can't wait to see more❤

[@ANGELO-lj1ez]

19:20

[@ANGELO-lj1ez]

22:58

[@nakim55]

How many pages is the $20.00 complete transcription book?

[@OmreeG]

there are a few different parts to it, the piano and sax together (like in the video) is 84 pages. Piano by itself is 43 pages. Bass and drums sum up to 9 pages. Tenor by itself is 22 pages

[@nakim55]

@@OmreeG thanks

[@timothy_leovel]

where can i download pdf of this transcription?

[@OmreeG]

gum.co/ggHl

[@AljoniMusiCo]

Yikes!!

[@dfoijnwe]

Boring

[@marvinkmooneyoz]

It’s not interesting in the same way a lot of Coltrane is, to be sure. It’s less pure jazz, less be-bop based. I personally prefer it to any other Coltrane album overall, and I think its more accessible to more people as well.

[@jinxpianista]

great work