blues for Alice head

[pingu]

i’m trying to get this head down
its giving me trouble

I’m playing it basically in 5p (in F)
any hints and tips ?

should i move around positions more
do you think ?

thanks Bop people ….

[pauln]

If I played that I would shift ten times (six of them without moving my thumb, just my hand).

[James W]

I recently transcribed this head. I used youtube and slowed it down. I play it around the twelfth fret, so in other words at the same pitch as played on record by Charlie Parker, rather than an octave down.

When you say trying to get this head down do you mean to play, or are you having trouble transcribing it?

[pamosmusic]

i’m trying to get this head down
its giving me trouble

I’m playing it basically in 5p (in F)
any hints and tips ?

should i move around positions more
do you think ?

thanks Bop people ….

I play it in fifth position most of the time too.

Taking a wild guess, it’s probably the pickups to measure four and measure four that are trouble?

That Bb to C turn could be moved up or down to slur.

The other spot for me is measure nine and ten.

When I learn a bebop head, I learn it in all five or six of my usual scale fingering places. Not necessarily strict positions, but maybe an area encompassing two or three positions. I do that mostly for technical practice, and so that I’m able to play all the little bits of vocabulary in different places, but it’s super helpful for getting a handle on which of those little flourishes can be played on which sets of strings, in which positions.

Also I slur a lot. I slur into every downbeat I can in a given position. It makes the vibe a bit more saxophony and it makes the tempos more playable.

[pcjazz]

I like to fingerpick this head in open position, using open strings and lots of articulation, albeit at a slower tempo than Bird’s.

[pingu]

it’s not the transcribing/playing
so much as the actual melody ….

i think i’ve just got to do the
repetitions , till it feels natural

It just feel jumpy and lumpy and disconnected from the blues to me
a ce moment ….

thanks for you guys help tho

[AllanAllen]

iRealPro, set to 80bpm. You'll get it. No way to do things but the hard way.