Lots of suggestions to use a big torch. It's a good one but you can overheat and burn all the flux out.
Clean copper till shiny outside of pipe and inside of fitting, make sure pipe is dry and you don't have any water flowing.
Apply flux to pipe and fitting then assemble. Apply heat to fitting on one side and solder to seam of fitting and pipe on the opposite side you're heating. As soon as it flows remove heat.
While it's still hot wipe with a rag to remove excess solder and flux. Makes for a pretty joint. If you have a drip of solder on the bottom you've used too much and wasted the solder. If flux dripped on the floor you used too much of that too. This was a pet peeve of the old Master Plumber I served under as an apprentice.
A general rule of thumb is that if your soldering 1/2" pipe you need 1/2" solder, 3/4" pipe-3/4" solder etc.
If it turns black you've overheated and scorched the flux.
Current code requires lead free solder. I/we used 1000's of lbs of 50/50 solder before the code change with no problems. 50/50 solder is dramatically easier to use.
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