Dexterity

[pamosmusic]

Alright cats, have at it.

This week is the first four.

[GuyBoden]

Is the first note F or G?

Notated in my Omnibook 2 as G, but sounds like F.

[pamosmusic]

I’ve always played it as an F.

[supersoul]

I’ve always played it as an F.

as do I

[AllanAllen]

Real Book has F and I hear F.

[CliffR]

I'm too preoccupied working on other heads old and new, but I'm hoping the panel will accept my humble submission recorded a couple of years ago:

[supersoul]

How Dexterity is going so far. I put Dewey Square at the end, since I never posted it in that thread.

[AllanAllen]

Supersoul, I love that guitar. Sounds good with that mic too.

[supersoul]

Supersoul, I love that guitar. Sounds good with that mic too.

Thanks man! I love it too, it's a good one.
Props to the Campus5 Jonathan Stout mic technique

[supersoul]

this is the one I've been working off of. I just found it on the interwebs.

[Old Nick]

this is the one I've been working off of. I just found it on the interwebs.

Matches my Real Book version

[pamosmusic]

First four:

[GuyBoden]

Original Parker Dexterity very slowed down version, for fellow slow ear learners like myself.

[AllanAllen]

Sounds like Miles hitting an E natural instead of the D in bar 2.

[charlieparker]

First four:

Very fluid. Curious how you were picking it. It looked like sweep picking ala Jimmy Bruno but couldn't be sure.

[AllanAllen]

Yeah, I'm also interested in fluidity.

[charlieparker]

this is the one I've been working off of. I just found it on the interwebs.

I hear an Ab instead of a D for the third note in bar 3.

[charlieparker]

Lullaby of Dexterity 1-4

Dexterity 1-4 - YouTube

[supersoul]

I hear an Ab instead of a D for the third note in bar 3.

I think you're right

[AllanAllen]

I thought it was Bb, but yeah, Ab sounds more like it. Shout out to Guy Boden's embedded clip

[Mick-7]

Lullaby of Dexterity 1-4

Dexterity 1-4 - YouTube

Thank you very much, this will be come in really handy when I have insomnia!

P.S. - cp, I could not play this fast using all down strokes like you do, do you always do that?

(To Peter) Very fluid. Curious how you were picking it. It looked like sweep picking ala Jimmy Bruno but couldn't be sure.

You'll need such economy of movement to play this quickly (apart from the left hand fretting challenges), i.e., down-strokes for ascending arpeggios, up-strokes for descending ones, etc.

I hear an Ab instead of a D for the third note in bar 3.

It's a Bb... and the second 8th note in the 4th measure is too (not a D).

[charlieparker]

Thank you very much, this will be come in really handy when I have insomnia!

P.S. - cp, I could not play this fast using all down strokes like you do, do you always do that?


You'll need such economy of movement to play this quickly (apart from the left hand fretting challenges), i.e., down-strokes for ascending arpeggios, up-strokes for descending ones, etc.




It's a Bb... and the second 8th note in the 4th measure is too (not a D).

No, I don't always do that but I've been trying to rework my picking from strict alternation to rest stroke picking and starting with all down strokes.

For the last 5 notes in measure 4, I've been playing

A C Bb D C instead of the notated D C B D C.

I've been trying to transcribe it myself and not use the lead sheet. The Ab still sounds better to me for some reason.

[pamosmusic]

Very fluid. Curious how you were picking it. It looked like sweep picking ala Jimmy Bruno but couldn't be sure.

comments to follow

EDIT: the aforementioned comments:

This isn't one I've spent tons of time calculating right hand patterns for. I've been playing it a long time (hence my lack of interest in trading the D out for the correct note) so I just slowed down and recorded what I was doing. There is some economy picking, mostly on the descending triads, though where it is depends on which position I'm in. But it's either the Bb triad or the G triad that'll get that economy picking treatment.

The other thing is that I slur into every downbeat where that is possible with the string crossings. Honestly the reason I know these bebop heads in multiple positions is because that's how I trained myself to start doing that kind of slurring into downbeats on auto-pilot.

So to the extent that it is fluid at all, it's probably fluid mostly because of the left-hand slurs, but probably in some measure the economy picking helps too.

[bediles]

BTW that one note everyone can't decide on: Sax plays Ab, Miles plays a C.


There's parts in some of these CP bebop heads that people will play slightly different on gigs and it's not the end of the world.

[ragman1]

Well, I've been up all night and so I'll share this nonsense with you. I'm never going to play Dexterity but this is rhythm changes in Bb so that'll do.

I'm keeping an eye on Milton. It started out as a category 5, got downgraded to a 3, which is common over land (and the same as Katrina) but then became a 2. As far as I know.

So it appears we're not all going to die in our beds after all although there will naturally be casualties. I see CNN have got Anderson Cooper without his specs out there in his raincoat risking life and limb to bring us the disaster story of the decade.

He shouldn't be out there really, he's a studio man, but we must have drama. But I suspect the main enemy is the water. Flooding is not friendly.

Anyway, I messed about with this and eventually lost interest. So will you, I expect.