Relaxin' at Camarillo

[deacon Mark]

I am trying to get this tune down one of the last of the Parker tunes that I have not really done. It is just me or is the fingering a beast. For whatever reason, I simply cannot get it to flow. Maybe I don't quite have the melody in my head given I can sight read the tune. I have pretty much eliminated reading it not long or complicated by my fingering in the 5th position does not like the sequence of notes going down from the 8th note ending bar 3 through bar 4. That move from G, D, A. Bb, it is nuts my brain and fingers struggle. Does anyone else find this a challenge. Getting past this it should be simple tune.

[Mick-7]

I am trying to get this tune down one of the last of the Parker tunes that I have not really done. It is just me or is the fingering a beast. For whatever reason, I simply cannot get it to flow. Maybe I don't quite have the melody in my head given I can sight read the tune. I have pretty much eliminated reading it not long or complicated by my fingering in the 5th position does not like the sequence of notes going down from the 8th note ending bar 3 through bar 4. That move from G, D, A. Bb, it is nuts my brain and fingers struggle. Does anyone else find this a challenge. Getting past this it should be simple tune.

It's all in the fingering, how are you playing it? I play the part you mentioned with my 3rd & 4th fingers so that I don't have to shift position, if you follow?

I played it in this thread: Just the melody. Not sure why I played it like that though, sounds more country than bop, I usually play it faster too.

One of the first solos I tried to transcribe (jumped in the deep end)

[deacon Mark]

I use the 4th finger G to D with 3rd, Bb4th =, A 3rd, then c with first finger. Being a quite proficient sight reader I am used to be very exact so I can sight read and not get confused. To me this is using a 4 fingers never the 3 finger thing and I do need to think out of box to get some things coveres.

[Mick-7]

I use the 4th finger G to D with 3rd, Bb4th =, A 3rd, then c with first finger. Being a quite proficient sight reader I am used to be very exact so I can sight read and not get confused. To me this is using a 4 fingers never the 3 finger thing and I do need to think out of box to get some things coveres.

Sounds like how I finger it. It was the picking, not the fingering, which made the difference for me.

I attended a workshop with Howard Roberts, about the only thing I took away from it (I was very young and green at the time ) was how he picked bop lines so quick and clean. And then George Benson walked in at the end of the workshop!