Barbarous Dissonance

I was called for a standards gig in a restaurant a few years ago and they mentioned Blue Monk, which I didn’t know. So I found it on YouTube and liked it a lot. I ended up transcribing the drum solo; here it is.

Solo transcription

Only the snare, bass drum, and cymbals are used. The phrasing is very clear, and plays across the bar lines and form divisions throughout.

Most of the rolls are played as singles. The triplets in bar 17 are played RRR LLL RRR LLL.