Transcription of Nat King Cole’s Piano Solo on Route 66

January 12, 2010

Transcription of Nat King Cole’s Piano Solo on Route 66, with brief theoretical analysis.

The great Nat King Cole did a beautiful piano solo over popular tune Route 66 in this youtube video:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCYApJtsyd0]

Here’s the transcription of his improvised piano solo in PDF format:

Observe the first few bars of the transcription, a motif with a length of a dotted minim was repeated a couple of times.

Towards the end of the solo, a group of notes, stacked together in fixed interval between each other, were used.

The result was a sound that’s somewhat similar to block chords.

Have fun and Enjoy. 😀

mark
Reply February 10, 2010

thanks! cheers.
- Ariel
  Reply December 1, 2015
  
  Mark ! The transcription is lost since a hacker attack some years ago. Could you helps us by making it available ?
  Thanks
Benny
Reply February 26, 2010

I would be willing to pay for more Nat King Cole piano transcriptions.
Victor siu
Reply November 12, 2015

Link doesn’t work. Please do more Nat cole transcriptions. He’s my favorite piano player of all time.