Move was composed by the great drummer Denzil Best and features a catchy rhythmic riff in the first 3 bars followed by a more bop flavoured ii-V-I lick. Having a complex melody with fairly simple chord changes is a nice contrast when developing a set of bebop tunes and that’s what Move is. The audio example demonstrates how the melody sounds with two guitars playing it an octave apart. Notice every phrase after the first one starts on the and of the beat. The melody starts with a melodic passage based off the first five notes of the G major scale.
While Scrapple the Apple is a contrafact of Honeysuckle Rose, Ornithology is a contrafact of How High The Moon.īebop players like this progression due to the amount of ii-V-I’s which keep descending a tone throughout most of the A section.
Yardbird Suite is one of the more simpler and melodic bebop tunes which makes it a nice contrast to the busier melodies found in most bebop tunes.īecause the first four bars are trickier to improvise over I recommend looping them at a slow tempo before putting the whole progression together. Tal Farlow and Joe Pass have both recorded versions of Yardbird Suite which proves it works well in many different situations such as a bossa nova, a burner and a solo piece. The Yardbird Suite progression features a back door ii-V-I in bar 2 which is followed by cyclic movement and a ‘Take The A Train’ turnaround in the last four bars. So it’s no surprise that the Honeysuckle chord progression was a favorite progression for bebop musicians to play over. Honeysuckle Rose was a popular standard in the days of bebop and Honeysuckle Rose theme went on to become a jazz cliché. Scrapple From The Apple was one of the first bebop tunes I learned and I still play it at gigs to this day.īebop musicians compose what are called ‘contrafacts’ which is a term that means a new melody based over an existing chord progression.įor example Scrapple from the Apple uses the Honeysuckle Rose A section changes. Rhythmic syncopation and chromatic passing notes are evident in each of these bebop tunes. The fingerings for each of the bebop tunes are just suggestions that I have found to work well but each melody should really be learned in at least 2 or 3 positions. The mush is congealed into a loaf, which is cut into pieces and sold in small, frozen, or refrigerated blocks.A great way to expand repertoire, language and develop technique is to learn bebop tunes.īut as important as learning bebop tunes is, they can be tricky to play both rhythmically and technically on the guitar.īecause of this I have decided to write out 5 different A sections of my favorite bebop tunes for guitar with tab, notation and examples of each song recorded by a jazz guitarist.īebop tunes are usually composed using favorite bebop licks which make them great to learn if you are looking to develop your data base of lines.
Scrapple is traditionally a combination of pork offal - scraps and trimmings like the heart, head, liver, and bones that wouldn’t be used for anything else - that is boiled down into a broth and then combined with cornmeal, flour, and spices to form a mush. but they come back because they try it and it’s really good,” said Wards’ owner and chief baker Walter Hohman, 51, who started working in the bakery when he was 12. “I think some people hear about scrapple pie and come in and buy it for the goof. While your dream of a perfect pie flavor may not be that whitish congealed block of something-or-other made famous by the Pennsylvania Dutch, apparently this bakery - around for more than 80 years and considered a Jersey Shore staple - knows a thing or two about taking such an oddity and making it, well, palatable. Move over apple: Scrapple is now the best-selling pie flavor at Wards Pastry Shop in Ocean City.
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