anthropology by Charlie Parker

[deathinthewind]

man how do you get that nice kind of warm jazzy sound ?

[65daysofslumber]

ahh, another "jazz on a strat player" other than me and my guitar teacher haha. great job, like you, i usually learn standards in 4th/5th position, just seems the most comfortable. great solo too! I still have yet to fully learn this tune, yet i know a bunch of other parker tunes.

[samwilcockmusic]

Nice playing, and you're definitely swingin' there. Always room to improve with swing but yours is pretty good. Good to hear a strat tone too, really refreshing. Comping was wicked!

[Nothingtearsthebeast]

Nice playing, but you're lacking a lot of feel.

[KaRmOdAgUrU]

hey dude your great but turn your tone down for that more smooth, less trebley sound.

[abinopod]

that's possibly the best walking bassline i've heard a guitar player play ;]

[geoffstockton]

Yeah, I still totally stand by my defense of you're degree of swinging. I think it sounds great. It's been a year so I'd imagine that you've gotten further with it.  I've come a long way with this since last year. Check out Anthropology, takes 1 and 2 on my channel. I've worked up to 240 BPM now.

[BANDGEEKFOEVA]

one of the most outstanding performances of anthropology i've EVER heard!

[verybigmath]

really awesome playing!

[colton8345701]

the hard part i find is right after the second ending

[emo432]

I don't think the eighth notes have to be really triplet-y to swing. especially at this tempo. try pulling the notes back a little and playing behind the beat. if you listen to the greats of modern jazz they do this, even out the eighth notes and shift them behind the click ever so slightly. it makes it swing really freaking hard.

[FleshMob]

nice

[franksinbeans]

nice playing dude

[mattfreaknparker]

oh man this is the same dude from bluegrass jam in brookline. didn't even know you played jazz too. thats awesome and this video is great.

[paulpenelly]

nah.

[frankjazz12345]

yeah !

[6gpower]

Very Nice.. Strats Rule....

[JenovaBirth09]

deff agree strats are a nice touch to any jazz peice

[NUM8ANDY]

Really nice work. Drawn to your clip because I saw you were using a Strat - pretty unusual for jazz when almost everone uses Gibson archtops! You have that nice glassy bite to your tone and it makes this old standard sound brighter. Good on ya!

[geoffstockton]

I totally disagree with these people saying you aren't swinging enough. I think people are just in the habit of saying that about jazz players. You're swinging exactly as much as you'd want to. If you swing to the point of a full-on triplet feel, it starts sounding really dorky. I'm assuming you already know that. Nice work. You're ideas flow great over the changes. You have me beat on that right now but I'm woodshedding it hard, so look out! lol

[dehaj2425]

@geoffstockton I think they are neglecting the fact that the original tempo of this is 300 1/4 notes per minute. (taken from the Parker Omnibook) at that tempo swing comes out differently

[abinopod]

@dehaj2425 Even though the omnibook says 300 bpm, charlie parker played it much slower sometimes, like on Early Bird. This is pretty close to that tempo I believe, maybe a tad slower.

[maxohpne]

lack of swing

[thisisfunNOT]

@maxohpne its bebop hes swingin enough for bebop

[maxohpne]

@thisisfunNOT yeah, the swing is okay, now that I listen to it again, it's more about the articulation of his phrases.

[congelata22]

One word: AWESOME!

[xc1816]

dude with a sound like that you should get a jazz guitar! You sound awesome! who do you listen to?

[superstarARH]

WHOOOOO!!

[dontwetyourpants]

too straight

[RocknRollAffen]

Guter Jazz.......

[Undercurrentuk1]

superb!

[deathresorttwlight]

dude i cant do that type of stuff ur better then em at guitar lol i tought myself but still ur better

[JaapV43]

Harpo1946: I wish I´d heard your tip 40 years ago! Have you ever heard Diz & the Double Six of Paris? Mindboggling vocals by Mimi Perrin, for instance Bird's famous solo in Groovin' High, not losing an ounce of swing in the process.

[harpo1946]

Well! You heard it now. Go get 'em ! It seems to work with any kind of music and it is not only useful for getting the thing through your head, but it throws up other creative stuff. For example try singing the intro to Otis Reddings "I can't turn you loose" ultra slow and you have the most beautiful love song. Although Otis used it (at break-neck high speed) as a show opener. No ! Don't know "Diz & etc" Similar to Rheinhardt/Grappelly Hot Club of Paris ?

[harpo1946]

A great way to learn this kind of stuff is to play the track at HALF SPEED thus an octave lower and SING IT, however dumb it sounds. Then after getting it through your head, play the track at half speed but play along in the right octave. Then repeat at right speed. First singing (Vitally important) and then playing. It really works. Trick learned from Bassist and London Jazz Club owner Peter Ind 40 years ago. Can still sing Yardbird suite in the shower.

[brendino69]

interesting...

[harpo1946]

Why won't my comment appear? I'll try again.

[bumblebeedancer]

LOL...

[dragso]

woooooooooooooow!

[Thetruthinall]

I keep coming back to watch this video, melody has been stuck in my head for 2 days now,

Thank you Greg ;)

[JaapV43]

It was conceived in the forties, I believe.

Man, there's a whole world of music for you to discover!

[Thetruthinall]

You right! almost every month or so i look back and find a new song or genre to like, so many varied styles of music that i realize its impossible to ever say "this is the best" because a few months later you find something else great, like this video.

Music re

[Thetruthinall]

:\ hit post comment by accident.

Music "REleases something good in us all, something that can bridge any creed or person, so on one level it does so much more then any dictator :p.

I think we should all really keep an open mind to music, even the "bad" stuff can have its flavor, so in the end its all subjective and never really worthy of argument,

cheers!

[lukeman3000]

very nice playing. is that all improvised or do you have every single note you play memorized?

[Thetruthinall]

Im guessing he used the sheet music to get an idea of the chord changes and time sigs, i learned about the first 30 seconds (all the tab had) so it is learn able.

Jazz is alot like Politics, just wing it with an agenda :),

[FRENNI13]

yup

[JaapV43]

"Jazz is alot like Politics, just wing it with an agenda :)"

It hurts when you say that, but alas, it's true!

[mgorbis]

The head i got from sheet music. the rest is improvised.

[imperialscot]

Hey GREAT JOB! Love your sound, keep it up!

[greentoaster]

This is improvise, I suppose. Very nice playing.

[Thetruthinall]

Tab?

[canucktheclown]

Great jazz playing. I would like to see you mix jazz and bluegrass. That would be cool.

[v4lkyr]

no?? would be total horror

[pandanXXX]

Keep on playing....

[Dynaverse]

such nerds but so cool!

[addictiontowonderful]

great jobb. keep up the good work :]

[ellierigby]

I know with your sort of skills you have probably already heard of him, but I think you should look at Django Rienhart's Gypsy Jazz style.

[melodykentucky]

Awesome!!!

[tubefiteen1]

respect the talent, dont care 4 the music. lol being a bassist people are constantly asking me if im a "jazz" or "funk" bassist so ive basicly heard enough of both genres.

[TrippyMcgee22]

when I listened to the blue grass stuff I thought I heard a little bit of jazz in your solos SO GOOD!!

[chjrb]

Better than Trey/Phish's cover!

[95nighthawk]

nice, jazz was just what i needed to hear.

[TheClansman1]

OH THE JAZZ!!!! Fantastic man, was that all improvised, or already written?

[doctorcatron]

Dude, you got the talent, now change the glasses get a new haircut, new style, and get laid so you loose some of your dorkiness and you would be on your way! Oh...get out of that town.

[chocskate3]

sick, this makes me allllmost wanna switch from bass back to guitar, ha, maybe i could just get a strat tho

[0justBETHANY]

good stuff. very smooth

[mattfreaknparker]

i love this song

[matthieu7ev]

Excellent !!!

[elrikrro]

good

[xlolalandax]

muy buena musica...

[radio213]

tell me if i'm wrong, cuz i probably am, but was there hints of charlie parker's scrapple from the apple in there?

excellent vid, excellent music

[DroDown]

Wow.. you make it look and sound so smooth.. you will all go on to do great things in life.

[2ndDayRiffs]

Great work. You've earned a new fan. Kudos!

[Cornith17]

i'm kind of used to this being energetic, but hey, your mellow style sounds pretty damn good

[TSanSE]

the guitarist is a good lookin guy

good shit

[jonpguitar]

nice

[MartinZ136]

thats the real music...by the way where r u from?? answer plz

[TakAndDima90]

This is so great. Can you play some Hard Rock?

[angcar]

Man! You're awesome. Love the jazz touch to that music.

[Aipom777]

nice playing :)

[gromvrau]

awesome. subbed

[slackmastercg]

this will be played at a mellow level in starbucks all over the world

[merelvh]

great sound and feeling

[omgwtfbbqalekx]

You have no idea how refreshing it is to see young guys playing this music - it's a nice change from today's stereo-types. Keep up the great work.

[DAVIDDAMIENR]

Cool.

The Bird is still Cookin'

DDR

[mgorbis]

Anthropology by Charlie Parker

[corbiegirl]

Name/author of piece, please? Nice work!

[ogicu812]

nice work!!