Hi folks, here’s the drum sheet music for Along Came Betty by Mark Murphy from the album Beauty And The Beast (1986), with Joey Baron on drums.
The tune is a famous standard composed by Benny Golson, in this version Joey plays the head with the brushes and at the beginning of the solo section he changes to the sticks. I think Joey plays the bass drum on the quarter notes very lightly – it’s not audible but I think he feathers the bass drum from the beginning of the tune.
The interesting part is the interlude when he plays a solo over the melody using a lot of press rolls, eight note swing and a typical Elvin Jones’s phrase (the single stroke roll around the snare, tom, and floor tom played at the end of the interlude).
2 thoughts on “Joey Baron – Along Came Betty (Drum Transcription)”