Confusion Suite

[abracadabra]

Having some trouble analyzing Yardbird Suite:

C / | Fm7 Bb7 | C7 Bb7 | A7 / | D7 / | G7 / | Em7 A7 | Dm7 G7 | C

Specifically the first four bars: How would you look at them?

I | (ii7) - bVII7 | I - bVII7 | VI7 |, where the A7 is a secondary dominant of D7, and D7 is then a ii7 chord changed into a II7 chord?

Or would you look at the Bb7 in the third bar as a tritone sub for an E7 (or Em7) chord to approach the A7?

In other words could it be written as:

C / | Fm7 Bb7 | Em7 / | A7 / | D7 / | G7 / | Em7 A7 | Dm7 G7 | C

Then looking at the second bar, is it a tritone sub for a III7 chord, with a ii7 added in? So written as:

C / | E7 / | Em7 / | A7 / | D7 / | G7 / | Em7 A7 | Dm7 G7 | C

Am I totally off track here?

How would you analyze the song and what scales would you use over these changes?

Cheers!

[abracadabra]

any ideas out there?

[bako]

C/Fm7 Bb7/C Bb7/A7

I generally look at this as plagal cadence IV-I (Fm to C) kind a motion with a dominant companion (Bb7)
Having arrived back on C the next Bb7 resolves to A7 more of a tritone sub motion.

[amoummimilt]

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[callumbtaylor]

Don't bother with scales wen ur jus startin out blowin over a tune, it was written by bird so why not do wat he did - use chord tones and passing tones! Jus make sure u know ur arps across the whole neck then pick a real slow speed (say 48bpm), then play the arps in 8th notes with the metronome on 2 & 4 making sure as u change chords/arps u stay in the same direction (if ur goin up Fm7 an u get to the Bb7 then find the nearest chord tone/arp note above it an keep goin up until u gotta change direction cus u run outta notes in that position or the chord changes). I think tht made sense, ur basically making sure u nail the changes before u start to bring anythin else into the equation

[abracadabra]

Thanks. I've actually been doing that alot, but I found that the song Doxy is much slower and contains the same chord progression: Bb7 - Ab7 - G7 - G7, so I've been using the chord tone/passing tone ideas over that to get it under my fingers, then I'll move to the Suite!

The progression is not the same in terms of analysis, but as you say, if you play the arps/chromatics over it then it doesn't really matter.