Bebop Heads (no. 5) - Confirmation

[JazzKatua]

Great effort!
If you bring down the tempo down to 140-160, it'll feel more comfortable.
Practising it on beats 2 & 4 only will make it stronger and later on only on the 4th beat you will nail it!
As a baritone sax player in the past I'd ask the drummer to only play the rimshot (great sound!) on the 4th beat; best exercise ever for EVERY instrument.

[Mick-7]

Here is a version of Parker's Confirmation.

You didn't say which Charlie Parker recording you were copying, the Verve recording I presume?

Seems that the live versions of it are all played slower, this one for example (guess that means I should be playing it slower, not faster)

Dizzy Gillespie recorded it first - also at a moderate tempo:

[Mick-7]

You do have me beat on this. Enjoyed the take, and like others, I'm impressed your doing it with just the drum track. I had the impression on the final A section that you might have rushed a few phrases, but maybe not. I haven't actually listened to Parker's take in a while. If I could play it like that I'd be pretty pleased with myself.

You are too kind.

"I had the impression on the final A section that you might have rushed a few phrases, but maybe not."

Maybe so, after hearing other recordings of it like the two I just posted, I realize that I should be slowing it down rather than speeding it up. This may be one of the few tunes Bird wrote that he wouldn't play at a breakneck speed, which is something I expect from him.

[supersoul]

Continuing on with this beast of a head, I want to play it well in the lower register as well as the higher. There's a recording of Joe Pass playing Joy Spring in both registers, and I think it just sounds cool down there.

Anyway, the bridge is still not perfect. It's where Charlie Parker is at his most slinkiest, and it's just hard to put all of his fast arpeggios in the right rhythm.

The BPM for this is around 200, in fact. I measured it with the tap tempo function on a drum machine.

[lawson-stone]

Continuing on with this beast of a head, I want to play it well in the lower register as well as the higher. There's a recording of Joe Pass playing Joy Spring in both registers, and I think it just sounds cool down there.

Anyway, the bridge is still not perfect. It's where Charlie Parker is at his most slinkiest, and it's just hard to put all of his fast arpeggios in the right rhythm.

The BPM for this is around 200, in fact. I measured it with the tap tempo function on a drum machine.

Well done! A good case for playing in the low register as well. Sounds really chunky and almost a little "gangsta"