Jazz Transcription
“Four”
Chris Potter, tenor saxophone · Transcribed summer 2012
About this transcription
I transcribed this Chris Potter solo in 2012, during the summer immediately following my graduation from the jazz program at the University of North Texas. I remember listening to it non-stop my last year as an undergraduate.
The original (non-transcription) video was uploaded to YouTube in 2011 by Alex Terrier.
A note on the chord changes
I originally uploaded this video on July 28, 2016, but 4,500 views later, in March 2017, I realized I had copied and pasted a wrong chord change throughout the entirety of the transcription and video.
I accidentally wrote a concert F7 instead of the correct, more standard concert A♭7 in the fourth bar of the tune. F7 and A♭7 are related chords — in one of my lessons with Bob Mintzer, he had me play numerous choruses of blues while subbing all the dominant chords for chords a minor 3rd away in either direction (an F7 would become either an A♭7 or a D7) — but I still felt like I needed to fix it.
Along with fixing the erroneous chord change, I also added double bar lines every eight measures and chorus numbers at the top of each chorus.