Here’s a full drum transcription of “Along Came Betty” by Mark Murphy, from the album Beauty and the Beast (1987) with Joey Baron on drums.
The tune is a famous standard composed by Benny Golson. In this version, Joey Baron plays the head section with brushes, then switches to sticks for the solo section. I think Joey plays the bass drum on the quarter notes very lightly; it’s not audible, but he feathers the bass drum from the beginning of the tune.
One of the highlights is the interlude, where he plays a solo over the melody using a lot of buzz rolls, phrases based on 8th notes, and a remarkable Elvin Jones–inspired phrase: the single-stroke roll around the snare, tom, and floor tom at the end of the interlude.
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