Groove Transcription - Damion Reed, "F.T.B."

Here's another one from the notebook I mentioned in the last post.  This is Damion Reid's playing on "F.T.B." from Robert Glasper's debut album In My Element.

 

The main shape of the groove looks like this:

 

He plays what is written above almost every time.

 

There are points throughout, however, where Reid gets a little chattier with some extra ghost notes.  What's written below is not necessarily exactly what he plays, but rather just shows where he places some of the ghost notes some of the time, so it's worth experimenting with different combinations.

 

 

Solo Transcription - Kenny Washington, "Where Have You Been?"

I'm getting ready to move next month and have been clearing out some boxes.  In the process I found an old notebook that I had completely forgotten about with a handful of transcriptions that I did by hand many moons ago.  Over the coming weeks I'm going to digitize them all and post them here.

 

The first one clearly comes from early on in my period of digging into Kenny Washington as it's from the first album I ever heard with Kenny on it; Bill Charlap's Written in the Stars.