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The votes are in and our next tune will be Scrapple From the Apple.
We’ll take four bars each week. So this week we’ll be learning m1-4 … ending about halfway through bar four, the second half of which is a pickup to the next phrase.
From there, I think we can probably learn the second four bars, along with the three alternate endings, since there isn’t much difference in each A section. Then maybe we give the B section the ole college try, four bars at a time there. It’s a doozy.
Don’t think anyone needs any help finding Charlie Parker’s version, so here is my favorite non-Bird rendition (he is of course quoting Bird’s improvisation over the B section here, which is awesome for all those people who say Jim isn’t a chops player):
For those of you who didn’t participate in our tour of Donna Lee, that’s all right here:
Bebop heads: Donna Lee
The tempo is your own. Whatever you like to post — clips of you playing, fingering charts or questions, using it for vocabulary, etc. The only caveat is that we’re primarily talking about the melody here, it whatever direction that leads you.
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06-15-2024 08:46 AM
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Think I got it. Working off the Oscar Peterson, Getz, Mulligan version.
Sucks how fast you forget. But things are easier to learn the 2nd or 3rd time.
Bars 1-4 Scrapple From The Apple
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^ Country boy Allan!
Uh I'm not sure the melody is accurate. :P
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Originally Posted by Bobby Timmons
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Here's a version I recorded a couple of years ago. Some of the notes are incorrect. I'll try and get a new recording done once I've finished with Billie's Bounce.
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Originally Posted by pamosmusic
I thought his intro was odd for a bop tune until I heard Dexter, from whom he borrowed it - I think I'll swipe Dexter's intro too.
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Originally Posted by Mick-7
Pretty clean to me
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Originally Posted by pamosmusic
But I haven't played this for a long time, I'll have to revisit it.
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Originally Posted by Mick-7
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Originally Posted by supersoul
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Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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Scrapple — alternate fingerings and vocabulary
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For better or worse, I'm copying the head for Scrapple from this Tenor Sax version on youtube, I find it easier to hear, also I can read the notation of the parts I can't hear.
I've just started, I've memorised the first 4 bars in a few keys.
Thanks for starting the thread, Scrapple has some great usable licks.
Last edited by GuyBoden; 06-30-2024 at 04:55 AM.
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Originally Posted by pamosmusic
I mean playing E- lick over the A7.
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
Simplest form, you get E G B which is 5 b7 9, and then Bb Db F which is b9 3 b6 over the dominant chord. So minor licks with those relationships to a dominant chord will give you those sounds.
Or like you were alluding to I think … easier way to think of it is the ii chord of the dominant, and then the ii chord of its tritone
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If you have a minor lick you like, you can get obviously use it over a minor chord, but you can also use it over dominant off the fifth of the chord, major off the sixth, or half diminished off the third.
There are other sounds (third or seventh of the major, etc etc etc) but those are the staples.
So that’s a minor lick:
Minor chord - play it off the root
Major chord - play it off the sixth
Dominant chord - play it off the fifth
Half diminished chord - play it off the third
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Fixed the melody, got a few fingerings.
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Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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Run through I did like 2 months ago. I tried to play it 'pianistic'. I might work it up again and try to do the Bird bridge. There are too many threads to participate in! Standards, bluez, ballads, bebop, and rhythm changes. Sheesh.
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Originally Posted by Bobby Timmons
I really like it. The forum feels revitalized to me.
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
I really like it. The forum feels revitalized to me.Last edited by Bobby Timmons; 06-22-2024 at 12:36 AM.
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Plowing ahead… unplugged tele was a bad idea.
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I'm practicing this week's next four bars, this is much easier than Donna Lee, even if I'm playing it very slowly.
Thanks for the motivating thread.
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Don’t forget rhythm guitar.Originally Posted by Bobby Timmons
Scott Walker- What planet did he beam in from?
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