[Buddy Love]

This is my first post and question. Your comments would be appreciated.

I'm getting into transcribing songs which I can't find the tabs but also songs I have the tabs to see how the songwriter created a specific piece of music. I think this may be a good approach to learning songwriting. Here's my approach:

1. I try to get the bass notes and melody lines down.
2. From there I try to find the key and chords associated with that key.
3. I've been using the harmonic scale approach for figuring out most of the chords. I have all the possible major, minor, and extended chords for the major key and relative minor key that I think the song is in.
4. But then I hit the wall trying to find some specific chords.
5. I'm also using our piano to pick out notes besides my guitar. I don't really know the piano that well but can pick out the chords, melodies, and bass runs.

Any suggestions or ideas for transcribing?

Thanks,

Dan