peter bernstein's solo on "my ideal"

by paul, on 01.19.2011

I've been working on the tune "My Ideal", so I decided to transcribe a chorus of Pete's from Ralph Bowen's album "Soul Proprietor", which features some brilliant, soulful playing throughout.

Here is a PDF of my transcription, you can listen to an MP3 clip here. As always, I encourage you to buy the record and support this wonderful music with your hard earned scrilla.

Some notes: One reason I wanted to learn this was it's a great illustration of how well Peter contours his lines and uses the full range of the instrument, waterfalls like in measure 21, as well as surprising augmented climbs like in measure 29. Peter goes quite high on the neck here, but keeps a full, rich tone, and makes every note count as always.

Transcription is a strange thing, sometimes I find things that are trivially easy to play very difficult to notate, to this end, I think I may have a mistake in bars 18-19, but it's easy to hear the phrase on the recording, which is the primary source, as always.