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rhythm changes: licks?

does anyone have some cool lick for rhythm changes?
why are all rhythm changes played at such a high pace :)

by ayolt on 05/31/2006, 16:03

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they don't have to be played so fast. do a google search on rhythm changes etudes and you'll find several. also, a good source of lines are the heads of the different rhythm changes tunes.

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by rc on 05/31/2006, 16:27

btw ayolt, rhythm changes appear intimidating because of the changes. but if you look closely much of it stays in one key and then does a couple of slow key changes in the bridge. so if you solo horizontally, it shouldn't be that much harder than a single 2-5-1.

it contains the typical turnaround 4-7-3-6-2-5-1 (or iv-vii-ii-vi-ii-v-i) on the first part which all belong to the same key and thus are just different modes of the same scale.

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by rc on 05/31/2006, 16:53

learn some bebop heads based on rhythm changes - eg crazeology, salt peanuts, anthropology - and use phrases from these tunes in your own solos. bop tunes are a kind of encyclopaedia of licks, since most of them are little more than improvised choruses that someone got round to writing down.

sid

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by sid on 05/31/2006, 17:50

thx guys! keep it comin'

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by ayolt on 05/31/2006, 19:55

the first bebop rhythm change head i learned was anthropology. it's also a good one to learn bebop phrasing on. make sure you listen to the bird recordings of it and try to play it exactly like him. record yourself and listen to it to make sure.

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by Scot Ranney on 05/31/2006, 20:05

scot is quite right here. bird (and then dizzy) is one of the early jazz players to utilize "rhythmic displacement" playing, which apparently was copied from monk (i just learned that last night on tv). this is the delayed accent which is on the off beat. this is a really swinging sound and if you can copy the recordings you will sound awesome. it took me a little bit of time to get a handle on this, mostly by listening to horn players. now it is pretty natural and i credit the horn players for instilling that phrasing to me as well as copying various piano players.

i thought the term "rhythmic displacement" some term invented at some university but it was actually used in the interview with barry harris and some other cats associated with monk. so this must be some original term from those days in the '40s.

i'm still working on rhythm changes, increasing tempo and working on different keys and this is not as hard as it seems. "oleo" is an imporant head to know if you are a piano player.

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by rc on 06/01/2006, 02:18

get a hold of "smoke gets in your eyes" done by monk. his work on the
bridge is worth gold.

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by jmkarns on 06/01/2006, 12:42

the omni book has both heads and parker solo transcriptions. many of those are on rhythm. i haven't progressed past the heads as yet but look forward to learning the solos as well.

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by sdm on 06/01/2006, 16:05

per the old omnibook, lionel grigson has a book out called "charlie parker: study album," which contains at least one rhythm changes transcription and head.

i believe it's just the one tune, "moose the mooche," but it's actually accurate, for a change. i don't know off hand of any other quality transcriptions of parker's work besides grigson's.

i think the japanese nichion publication of bird is pretty accurate, but i haven't really checked it. grigson's book also contains the only decent version of "confirmation" i've ever seen published.

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by on 06/11/2006, 13:59

continuos arpeggios that ascend and descend in inversions, not root positions.

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by Jazz+ on 03/21/2007, 11:30

'hora decubitus' by charlie mingus has some interesting changes.

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by jmkarns on 03/21/2007, 11:54

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by rc on 05/31/2006, 16:27

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by ayolt on 05/31/2006, 19:55

by Scot Ranney on 05/31/2006, 20:05

by rc on 06/01/2006, 02:18

by jmkarns on 06/01/2006, 12:42

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rhythm changes: licks?

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by rc on 05/31/2006, 16:27

by rc on 05/31/2006, 16:53

by sid on 05/31/2006, 17:50

by ayolt on 05/31/2006, 19:55

by Scot Ranney on 05/31/2006, 20:05

by rc on 06/01/2006, 02:18

by jmkarns on 06/01/2006, 12:42

by sdm on 06/01/2006, 16:05

by on 06/11/2006, 13:59

by Jazz+ on 03/21/2007, 11:30

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