{"id":9,"date":"2008-12-20T23:15:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T22:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-12-20T23:32:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T22:32:55","slug":"ben-riley-solo-on-blue-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Ben Riley solo on Blue Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was called for a standards gig in a restaurant a few years ago and they mentioned Blue Monk, which I didn&#8217;t know. So I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY\" title=\"found it on YouTube\">found it on YouTube<\/a> and liked it a lot. I ended up transcribing the drum solo; here it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/benriley_bluemonk_oslo66_solo.pdf\" title=\"Solo transcription\">Solo transcription<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only the snare, bass drum, and cymbals are used. The phrasing is very clear, and plays across the bar lines and form divisions throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the rolls are played as singles. The triplets in bar 17 are played RRR LLL RRR LLL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was called for a standards gig in a restaurant a few years ago and they mentioned Blue Monk, which I didn&#8217;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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}