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Jazzleadsheets introduces our new Drum Corner! Also visit our Jazz Drum Corner blog to get history, audio and video clips, insight, news.
Our drum transcriptions include:
-- layout for the whole recorded track -- melody notated above the drum transcription for all melody sections -- stickings -- drum solos
-- trading fours & eights -- song form indications throughout -- track location timings for solo sections
How to Practice Drum Transcriptions
Of course, it's up to each individual drummer, but work on the figures and transitions until they become part of your own playing. Memorizing the transcription may be a lot of work, but it's a sure way to know that you've understood and internalized a transcription. We also highly recommend listening to, and eventually playing along with, the original recording.
Add your own drumming
We plan to make available audio tracks without drums, so you can play along with the ensemble and be the drummer ("minus-you" tracks), perfect for Garage Band or other applications. Keep in touch!
All drum parts are notated up stem, for reading ease. See the Notation Guide here.
The first drum transcriptions highlight the work of legendary drummer Philly Joe Jones playing Hank Mobley compositions with Hank and Lee Morgan and always-swinging Charli Persip playing Rahsaan Roland Kirk's Three For The Festival. Now added Jo Jones and Billy Higgins.
Coming soon, drum transcriptions of Victor Lewis playing Jonny King's The Merry-Go-Round, along with other great drummers playing music from jazzleadsheets.com.
Billy Higgins, drummer for Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Ornette Coleman, Lee Morgan, Jackie Mclean, Cedar Walton, among many others. |
"Papa" Jo Jones, longtime drummer for the Count Basie Orchestra, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Gene Ammons, Ella Fitzgerald, among many others. |
Philly Joe Jones, drummer for Miles Davis, Hank Mobley, Tadd Dameron, Elmo Hope and many others; leader of "Dameronia." |
Charli Persip, drummer with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan and others; leader of "The Jazz Statesmen" and "Supersound." |