Charlie Parker's Famous Alto Break ON GUITAR

This is a guitar tutorial featuring Bird's Famous Alto Break from Night in Tunisia. The tutorial is really about jazz phrasing and the importance of dynamics within the jazz line. You can download the transcription of the break and the sound files associated with this tutorial from my website: http://jerrybaiden.com

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Music

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• Charlie Parker
• Bird
• Famous Alto Break
• guitar
• tutorial
• how-to
• Gibson ES-335
• jazz phrasing
• jazz line
• dynamics
• Jerry Baiden
• transcription

[guitarmanbray]

the dynamics are really subtle in jazz if you listen to all the greats you aren't going to hear a lot of difference in loudness or softness the only difference is the feel.

[GuitarUTube]

@guitarmanbray

Sorry, totally disagree with you. There's nothing subtle about the dynamics of any great jazz instrumentalist. Check out Miles on "When The Lights Are Low;" Pat Martino on "What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life?;" Louis Armstrong on "Potato Head Blues;" Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden on "For All We Know" from Jasmine; and Parker on basically anything he's played on. When I mention dynamics, I mean within the lead-line itself, not between players themselves.

[pktunes]

ok. I just saw the funk vid with the downstroke pick rest technique. very nice. how about the dim half whole scale/application on Dominant 7th/13th lesson? ha.. one of my favs. take care jerry.

[GuitarUTube]

@pktunes

:-)

[pktunes]

HEY JER!!, I searched for jazz dynamics hoping to find someone who can play like my old guitar teacher, and look who I found. Let me know if you want to jam with the band in Menlo Park sometime (like asap) :) I have been trying to remember your tips on right hand technique. I think that you used to tell me to dampen the strings with the flats of my bent fingers and to make sure that the pick comes to a rest on the next string.. is this right? hey this might make a nice youtube lesson. -pk

[GuitarUTube]

@pktunes

Peter! It's great to hear from you, and hope all is well. Yeah, I think I mention the whole thing about rest strokes (striking the string and resting the pick on the next string) somewhere on all of my videos. Your band (The Wildwood Brothers) sounds great, and I would love to hang and jam sometime. Talk and/or write to you soon.

[guitarmanbray]

@GuitarUTube Ya I was talking about the lead-line as well. what you are talking about just seems like it is inflections and emphasis, not dynamics.

[oranjjjggg]

@GuitarUTube its coming along great man, i really appreciate you answering my questions and watching my technique!

[GuitarUTube]

@oranjjjggg

it's been a while. how is your vibrato technique coming along?

[oranjjjggg]

great to see a new lesson, awesome