This is a song from my childhood which I only ever new from one line, which my college-age friend Tom, from the Big Brother/Big Sister program, used to sing at odd times: Southbound / unfold […]
Category: transcriptions
Transcription: Zigaboo Modeliste — The Mob
Here’s the rest of that thing we were looking at the other day: Zigaboo Modeliste’s playing on The Mob, from the Meters album Look-ka Py Py. On the first and last A sections, he improvises […]
Grooves o’ the day: all the grooves from Look-ka Py Py
Let’s do a whole record for the groove of the day— and a very famous one at that: Look-Ka Py Py, by The Meters. The drummer is Zigaboo Modeliste, the New Orleans funk legend. We’ve […]
Transcription: Connie Kay – Billie’s Bounce
Here’s a basic bebop study, looking at how Connie Kay plays the head of Billie’s Bounce— we’ve got the drums transcribed, along with the melody rhythm so you can see how they intersect. Kay was […]
Transcription: Barney Miller Theme
Here are the drum performances on two versions of the very famous theme song from the TV show Barney Miller, which ran from 1974-82. The show was in syndication for many years, so the tune […]
Transcription: Billy Higgins / Tears Inside
Tears Inside, from Pat Metheny’s album Rejoicing, is such a favorite track of mine, I’m surprised we haven’t done anything with it before. I did transcribe the drum intro for the forthcoming[!!!] Book of Intros. So […]
Transcription: Joey Baron — Cattle Drive
A little transcription of Joey Baron playing in Bill Frisell/Americana mode on Cattle Drive, from Frisell’s original music for the Buster Keaton film Go West. It’s sort of a beginner’s version of the ricky-ticky thing […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes intro
You know what, I still owe you a BOOK OF INTROS. The thing has been languishing a few short hours from completion for quite a few months now. Perhaps me drawing attention to that fact, […]
Transcription: Famoudou Don Moye — Funky Aeco
I was going to take care of some other business today, but then I saw that it’s Famoudou Don Moye’s birthday, and wanted to pay tribute by giving one of my favorite things of his […]
Transcription: Tony Williams — Lopsy Lu
2021 UPDATE: See my new listening guide for this track. Here’s the third of four big-deal transcriptions I have lined up for the fund raiser. I was going to save this for next week, but […]