Ray Brown Transcription "Night Train"

Robert Sabin · #1 12-02-2007, 09:21 PM

I've posted a transcription of Ray Brown's bass line and solo on "Night Train" from the Oscar Peterson recording on my site. All who are interested are invited to download it in pdf format from the download page. If anyone finds any incorrect notes, would like to help me proof read, or double check notes I welcome any opinions!

Click here to check it out:

http://www.ranulamusic.com.

Thanks!

funkometer · #2 12-02-2007, 09:49 PM

Very Nice work. Tracks sound great too. Thanks for the dl.

AbdRahim · #3 07-28-2008, 10:34 PM

There is nothing on the download page

Ed Fuqua · #4 07-29-2008, 01:17 PM

There was 8 months ago.

Robert Sabin · #5 07-30-2008, 09:30 AM

Sorry, I had some web site issues. The full transcription is back up along with the research paper I wrote to accompany it. If you just wat the transcription jump to page 18.

Thanks!

E2daGGurl · #6 08-22-2008, 11:28 AM

Wow - if I had to make a list of songs I'd like to see analyzed and transcribed as you've done, Night Train would probably be No. One on the list. Thank you so much! Made my morning - and I'm going to read your analysis, too.

I'm just a student of jazz bass (and I read better than I play), but I love the academic part of what you're doing. I'm also going to love learning to play Night Train, finally.

Robert Sabin · #7 08-23-2008, 12:43 PM

Thanks for the kind words! I had to do some writing for a phd program I was applying to, and I wondered what it would be like to talk about everything I could think of about that track. It's a bit much, but there is some very cool stuff in Ray's playing. The alternate take was interesting too. Enjoy!

AbdRahim · #8 08-24-2008, 09:42 PM

I am trying to learn to solo. Any transcription and analysis of a master's work is of great value. Thanks again.

pbass888 · #9 12-17-2009, 08:30 PM

thank you very much great walking ray brown ( was really ahead of the beat in many ways)

Jack Clark · #10 01-31-2010, 06:20 AM

Another serious Thank You, Robert.

Even though I ultimately can't play everything I learn, I'll still very much enjoy working through your analysis and learning from it. Very much enjoying the history lesson, too.

Thanks, again.

Paul Warburton · #11 01-31-2010, 07:43 AM

Analyze, Schmanylize......

PB+J · #12 01-31-2010, 12:43 PM

Nicely done--thank you

Paul Warburton · #13 01-31-2010, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pbass888

( was really ahead of the beat in many ways)

Oh, please....how "many ways", exactly, was he "really ahead of the beat"?

PB+J · #14 01-31-2010, 07:37 PM

There are a lot of ways to talk about any good art form. They all represent respect for and admiration of the art form. There's no real reason to put any of them down. A scholarly account of Ray Brown's playing doesn't diminish Ray's playing one bit.--It only adds to it. There are many paths.

Paul Warburton · #15 01-31-2010, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PB+J

There are a lot of ways to talk about any good art form. They all represent respect for and admiration of the art form. There's no real reason to put any of them down. A scholarly account of Ray Brown's playing doesn't diminish Ray's playing one bit.--It only adds to it. There are many paths.

Deep.

oldfretless · #16 01-31-2010, 09:28 PM

"When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, and I to mine."-Now that's deep.

Paul Warburton · #17 01-31-2010, 10:05 PM

Who said anything about not allowing anyone to have an opinion?

PB+J · #18 02-01-2010, 09:17 AM

Yeah sure, but didn't you say that everybody ought to study hard on LaFaro with Evans, that there was a lot to learn? So here's somebody studying hard on Ray, why be snarky about it?

I'm glad--I didn't know that recording, mostly because I tend to avoid Peterson, and Ray plays great on it, and it's a nice starting point for analysis, because it's "just a blues."

Paul Warburton · #19 02-01-2010, 09:44 AM

I don't remember ever saying anything about "studying" anybody in the true sense of that word. I do say over and over that "listening" and "internalizing" the music is what I think can be of the greatest value to players without a lot of professional experience. I usually end my posts with IMO, IME, IMHO and YMMV. I failed to do that here. My bad. (I guess).
So there it is and that includes my "snarky" statement.....If you want to call it "snarky".....that's on you. IMO, IMHO, IME and YMMV.
Is that OK?

EDIT: If you tend to avoid "Peterson", IMO, IMHO, IME and YM shoudn't vary a hell of a lot....you are missing a whole world of wonderful music. Bill was pretty fond of Oscar.

Clay_Bass · #20 02-01-2010, 10:24 AM

seems like a simple jab at a slabber with a poor choice of words to me. no reason to get all upset...