Ah, yes you're right. Thanks, I'll update the PDF

@@rhtranscriptions9665 no problem

He was checking to see who's paying attention. ;)

That's sus

That D natural is very quiet, but I'm pretty sure it is there. You can almost feel it and the way it changes the characteristic of the chord more than you can hear that individual note.

@@rhtranscriptions9665 strange. For me I hear a very distinctive shift to the D11 on the second half of the bar and the first half I hear an A at the bottom Maybe I need headphones to hear the D but when I held my phone speakers directly against my ears I could not hear a D

@@nezkeys79 Well, I doubt I'd be able to hear it on a phone speaker either to be fair.

It could be notated in that way. I actually changed it to 4/4 and then back again when I was going through the transcription. For me there's such a clear downbeat at the start of bar 25 that it would be less descriptive of the recording to notate that as the second quaver of the bar. Obviously the fact that it's played rubato is a factor but the rhythms there are actually fairly straightforward and in time, they just don't suggest 4/4 to me.

@@rhtranscriptions9665 you've done it elsewhere when he is playing rubato. These kind of transcriptions are the easiest for an actual piano to player to read just pick out the melody like you did before. I am 99% confident he was still thinking in 4/4 the whole time and not switching in his head. Transcribing rubato is 👀 imo. I remember years on cruise ships MDs would try to do this and have a vocal count through it all and it was just annoying hearing "I a few bars it will suddenly change to 5/4 for 1 bar then...." Whatever it was all just stuff to get in the way of a musician actually sight reading. Your transcriptions are great tho don't don't me wrong (far better job than I could do as a whole) I just think these places should be 4/4. Unless of course Fred says the opposite

@@rhtranscriptions9665 bar 31 for example he pauses on the last beat which is why you've notated 5/4 but its really 4/4 imo

@@nezkeys79 I'm sure you're right in the sense that Fred Hersch wasn't thinking 5/4 in those particular bars. Personally I don't find that it gets in the way of being able to read a piece if there's an occasional change of meter. Notating anything that's played rubato or even slightly rubato there's always a trade off between accuracy and readability, but for me it's clearer to notate how the music sounds rather than to keep everything 4/4 and leave everything else down to it being played rubato, which is not very descriptive when it comes to any one bar.

@@rhtranscriptions9665 for me as a pianist I prefer to see the melody as its supposed to be I context of 4/4. All the time signature changes only make it harder to read and understand the feeling imo. Dont get me wrong im not saying the odd 5/4 and 9/8 bars are impossible to read I just think the whole point of someone reading this is to play it with their own feeling anyway as trying to copy Fred's rubato is sort of weird to me