As I write this – Christmas is over, and the New Year is almost upon us. I promise I’ll talk about this Eric Moore transcription in a second, but before I do: I hope you all had a fantastic 2017, because I know I did. Not all of it was incredible, but I will be posting a video/blog soon that recaps 2017 and what it looked like for me. What I’ll say for now is this – if you read, listened to, or watched any of the content I created this year. THANK YOU. You made this one of the coolest years in my career, and I can’t thank you enough for that. But, more on that later.

For now, I wanted to share with you one of my favorite transcriptions I did this year. And it features the one and only…Eric Moore. Eric is such a powerhouse player. His speed, groove, and precision are unbelievable. When transcribing, I often slow things down to better hear what is going on (check out my free transcription course for more on how I transcribe). Often, when slowing someone’s playing down, it gets to be really hard to hear subdivisions or placement of certain notes because any imprecise note is magnified at slower tempos. Sloppy playing gets much sloppier when slowed down.

In contrast, super accurate and articulate playing is incredibly easy to transcribe when slowed down. Eric Moore has some of the most precise note placement I’ve ever heard, he has an astounding sense of time and an uncanny ability to place notes precisely where they need to go.

This video (and the accompanying sheet music you can download below) features two different excerpts from Eric’s solo he played at Drumeo. You can see the full solo on YouTube, but I thought these two passages were interesting and I wanted to figure out exactly what Eric was doing. These two samples are similar to a few common fills/grooves I’ve heard before, but I feel like Eric puts such an interesting twist on how he plays them. And the groove that takes up most of the second transcription was just too cool to not transcribe.

Check out the video above to hear Eric’s playing at 100% speed and 50% speed, and then check out the sheet music below so you can work on this stuff in your next practice session. Thanks again for following what I do, it still blows my mind that people on the internet care at all about what I’m posting, but I can’t thank you enough for it.