Bebop heads: Donna Lee

[grahambop]

By the way Christian I am seeing Shirley Smart (cellist) next week at the Watermill, I believe she was on one of your albums?

Sorry a bit OT but you never know, she might play Donna Lee - I have heard some clips and she sounds incredible and capable of playing anything!

[Christian Miller]

By the way Christian I am seeing Shirley Smart (cellist) next week at the Watermill, I believe she was on one of your albums?

Sorry a bit OT but you never know, she might play Donna Lee - I have heard some clips and she sounds incredible and capable of playing anything!

Yeah Shirley’s an old friend, hung out only this week as a matter of fact. We’ve played together countless times over the years. We’ve definitely DL’d together a few times lol. She’s a beast!

She’s on Balagan Café Band.

Is it the trio or sextet?

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[grahambop]

It's the trio.

I expect DL on cello presents its own challenges!

[Christian Miller]

Nice! Fun band. John and Demi are great too.

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[Mick-7]

I’ve found with the 5 positions and not using open strings, the key doesn’t matter. Put up a clip of you doing it country style with open strings. I’d be interested to hear it. I always like when Chet Atkins took a standard to a country key.

What, Donna Lee sportin' a cowboy hat and boots, maybe brandishing a whip to prod ya' all to play faster? That could be entertaining, and certainly a challenge to add country twang at a high speed.

I'm not set up for recording now but It's on my To Do list.

[lawson-stone]

So here are my musings on the next chunk of Donna Lee. I don't remember when the week for each portion starts, so I hope I"m not jumping ahead here. Also, I see one unified phrase moving into mm 13-14 so I've worked with the 6 measures, 9-14.

[pamosmusic]

Oh yeah we’re on to 9-12 now, right?

[AllanAllen]

We started on a Thursday. I don’t see why we can’t switch to Mondays though. Everyone made a thoughts video and I’m happy with 5-8 in two positions.

[alpop]

So here are my musings on the next chunk of Donna Lee. I don't remember when the week for each portion starts, so I hope I"m not jumping ahead here. Also, I see one unified phrase moving into mm 13-14 so I've worked with the 6 measures, 9-14.

That little bit that you weren't sure about from an analysis point of view could be seen as inserting a B7 (alt) in between the F7 (alt) and the Bb7 (b5).

[alpop]

Since I commented on Lawson's submission, I feel that I should post a clip of me playing.

[bluenote61]

That little bit that you weren't sure about from an analysis point of view could be seen as inserting a B7 (alt) in between the F7 (alt) and the Bb7 (b5).

It could also be just pointing out the 3rd of Bb7 on the first beat, followed by a chromatic run down from the 9th of Bb7 to the b7, with this nice flipping of a and bflat around beat 3 of m13. Followed in m14 by the next chromatic run down to the b5 aka #11 .

[Christian Miller]

I found this knocking around in my drive

[Christian Miller]

In case no-one can parse that particular map of hell...

[alpop]

It could also be just pointing out the 3rd of Bb7 on the first beat, followed by a chromatic run down from the 9th of Bb7 to the b7, with this nice flipping of a and bflat around beat 3 of m13. Followed in m14 by the next chromatic run down to the b5 aka #11 .

Absolutely. I over complicated. I sang D-C-B-A over a B7#9 and it sounded good. But your explanation makes more sense. That is a cool trick (D-C-B-A-Bb) to land on the root of the Bb7.

[lawson-stone]

In case no-one can parse that particular map of hell...

Thanks Christian. That was very helpful to me.

[mr. beaumont]

On to lick 3, back to 3 fingers...

[GuyBoden]

Good thread and good stuff, I've been on holiday, but hopefully I'll catchup.

I don't like Miles on the original version, he's not playing in unison with Parker, so I'll copy the head from this Tenor Sax version by Bob Reynold's, which I do like.

[Christian Miller]

Yeah Parker learned it wrong I guess haha


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[Old Nick]

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread. Your bravery has inspired me to learn from your example, though I suspect 8 weeks won't be enough

[Jimmy Smith]

^ Line 1 and 5 are identical, so it's only 7 weeks of material.

[lawson-stone]

^ Line 1 and 5 are identical, so it's only 7 weeks of material.

And we have two measures of RESTS.

[starjasmine]

And we have two measures of RESTS.

Cue argument about how to finger rests.

[Jimmy Smith]

And we have two measures of RESTS.

Always look for the silver lining, and try to find the sunny side of life.

[AllanAllen]

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread. Your bravery has inspired me to learn from your example, though I suspect 8 weeks won't be enough

8 weeks won't be enough to get up to speed, but you can get it under your fingers. One bar at a time. 4 bars a week is less than one a day, and a bar is only like... 8 notes. Surely you can learn 8 notes a day.

Just be sure to post a clip so someone can catch if you learned it wrong. (Thanks again guys)

[Jimmy Smith]

Don't forget to also work on solo ideas. Scales, arps, intervals, and chromatics over the changes.