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    This document contains a list of Charlie Parker tunes transcribed by Fred Parcells. It includes over 50 tunes organized by form and key. Parcells thanks those who inspired him to study Charlie Parker's music, including Alex Adrian and Joe Salzano. He details his transcription process of memorizing tunes from recordings and then writing them out from memory while checking against two Charlie Parker sources. The collection is dedicated to Charlie Parker and aims to accurately represent Parker's melodies and chords.

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    This document contains a list of Charlie Parker tunes transcribed by Fred Parcells. It includes over 50 tunes organized by form and key. Parcells thanks those who inspired him to study Charlie Parker's music, including Alex Adrian and Joe Salzano. He details his transcription process of memorizing tunes from recordings and then writing them out from memory while checking against two Charlie Parker sources. The collection is dedicated to Charlie Parker and aims to accurately represent Parker's melodies and chords.

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    This document contains a list of Charlie Parker tunes transcribed by Fred Parcells. It includes over 50 tunes organized by form and key. Parcells thanks those who inspired him to study Charlie Parker's music, including Alex Adrian and Joe Salzano. He details his transcription process of memorizing tunes from recordings and then writing them out from memory while checking against two Charlie Parker sources. The collection is dedicated to Charlie Parker and aims to accurately represent Parker's melodies and chords.

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    This document contains a list of Charlie Parker tunes transcribed by Fred Parcells. It includes over 50 tunes organized by form and key. Parcells thanks those who inspired him to study Charlie Parker's music, including Alex Adrian and Joe Salzano. He details his transcription process of memorizing tunes from recordings and then writing them out from memory while checking against two Charlie Parker sources. The collection is dedicated to Charlie Parker and aims to accurately represent Parker's melodies and chords.

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    Charlie Parker
    Tune Book
    Transcriptions by Fred Parcells

    I would like to thank Alex Adrian and all my friends at the Eastman
    School of Music for the inspiration to start this project. I am especially
    grateful to Joe Salzano in Rochester, NY, who first motivated me to study
    Bird.
    I am also indebted to Ran Blake, chairman of the Third Stream Department at the New England Conservatory for his teaching. I used his method
    to put this book together. First, I memorized the music from the various
    recordings and then learned to play the songs on my instrument, the
    trombone. Finally, I transcribed from memory exactly what I had learned,
    correcting my mistakes against the recordings.
    To check the work, I used two sources: 1) Charlie Parker Ommibook by
    Jamie Abersold and Ken Slone (Atlantic Music Corp., 1978) and 2) Charlie
    Parker: Techniques of Improvisation by Thomas Owens (Doctoral Dissertation,
    University of California, L.A., 1974).
    In closing, this book is dedicated to the genius of Charlie Parker.
    To my knowledge, this collection is the best available representation of
    the melodies and chords of Bird. In essence, this book is my attempt to
    write down the music of Charlie Parker with the same excellence with which
    he played.
    Enjoy.
    Fred Parcells, Transcriber
    August 2, 1979

    BIRD TUNES
    AH LEU CHA

    CHASIN' THE BIRD

    AN OSCAR FOR TREADWELL

    CHERYL

    ANOTHER HAIR DO

    CHI CHI

    ANTHROPOLOGY (Thriving on a Riff)

    CONFIRMATION

    AU PRIVAVE

    CONSTELLATION

    BACK HONE BLUES

    COOL BLUES

    BALLADE

    COSMIC RAYS

    BARBADOS

    CRAZEOLOGY

    BIG FOOT (Drifting on a Reed)


    (Air Conditioning)

    DEWEY SQUARE

    BILLIES' BOUNCE
    BIRD, THE
    BIRD FEATHERS
    BIRD GETS THE WORM
    BIRD OF PARADISE
    BIRDS NEST
    BLOOMDIDO
    BLUE BIRD
    BLUES (fast)
    BLUES FOR ALICE
    BONGO BEEP
    BONGO BOP
    BUZZY
    CARDBOARD
    CELEBRITY (Celerity)
    CHARLIE'S WIG

    DEXTERITY
    DONNA LEE
    HAPPY BIRD RUES
    HONE COOKIN' II
    HOME COOKIN' III
    HYMN, THE
    JUMPIN' BLUES, THE
    K. C. BLUES
    KIM
    KLACTOVEEDSEDSTENE
    KLAUNSTANCE
    KO KO
    LAIRD BAIRD
    LEAP FROG
    LITTLE WILLIE LEAPS
    MARMADUKE
    MEANDERING

    BIRD TUNES (2)


    MERRY GO ROUND
    MOHAWK
    MOOSE THE MOOCH
    MY LITTLE SUEDE SHOES
    NOW'S THE TIME
    ORNITHOLOGY
    PARKER'S MOOD
    PASSPORT
    PERHAPS
    QUASIMADO
    RED CROSS
    RELAXIN' WITH LEE
    RELAXIN' AT CAMARILLO
    SCRAPPLE
    SEGMENT (Diverse)
    SHAW NUFF
    SHE ROTE
    SI SI
    STEEPLE CHASE
    STREET BEAT, THE (Rifftide)
    VISA
    WARMIN' UP A RIFF
    YARDBIRD SUITE

    BIRD TUNES
    by Form and Key
    BLUES

    BLUES

    AU PRIVAVE

    ANOTHER HAIR DO

    BARBADOS

    BIG FOOT

    BILLIE'S BOUNCE

    BIRD FEATHERS

    BLUES FOR ALICE

    BLOOMIDO

    THE JUMPINBLUES '

    BLUES (fast)

    NOW'S THE TIME

    BUZZY

    SI SI

    THE HYMN

    "I GOT RHYTHM"


    AH LEU CHA
    CHASIN' THE BIRD

    LAIRD BAIRD
    MOHAWK
    PARKERS MOOD

    LEAP FROG

    "I GOT RHYTHM"

    SCRAPPLE

    ANTHROPOLOGY

    OTHER

    BIRDS NEST
    (Different 'B' section)

    BALLADE
    "I GOT IT BAD" AABA
    CONFIRMATION
    AABA
    KLAUNSTANCE
    "THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT"
    LITTLE WILLIE LEAPS
    "ALL GOD'S CHILDREN GOT RHYTHM"
    MARMADUKE
    "HONEYSUCKLE ROSE"

    CELEBRITY
    CRAZEOLOGY
    DEXTERITY
    KIM
    KLACTOVEEDSEDSTENE
    MERRY GO ROUND
    (HONEYSUCKLE ROSE 'B 1 )
    MOOSE THE MOOCHE
    PASSPORT
    RED CROSS
    SHAW NUFF
    STEEPLE CHASE

    BIRD TUNES
    by Form and Key (2)
    "CHEROKEE"

    OTHER

    HOME COOKIN' II

    THE BIRD
    C MINOR ABCA

    KO KO
    WARMIN' UP A RIFF

    CARDBOARD
    ABAC

    OTHER

    YARDBIRD SUITE
    AABA

    CHARLIE'S WIG
    "WHEN I GET TOO OLD TO DREAM"

    BLUES

    SEGMENT
    B b MINOR AABA
    SHE ROTE
    ABAC
    BLUES
    BACK HOME BLUES

    BLUE BIRD
    "I GOT RHYTHM"
    DEWEY SQUARE
    HOME COOKIN' III
    MY LITTLE SUEDE SHOES

    BONGO BEEP

    "EMBRACEABLE YOU"

    BONGO BOP

    MEANDERING

    CHERYL

    QUASIMADO

    COOL BLUES
    COSMIC RAYS
    HAPPY BIRD BLUES

    BLUES
    CHI CHI

    K.C. BLUES

    "I GOT RHYTHM"

    PERHAPS

    THE STREET BEAT

    RELAXIN' AT CAMARILLO

    OTHER

    VISA

    BIRD GETS THE WORM


    "LOVER COME BACK TO ME"

    "I GOT RHYTHM"

    BIRD OF PARADISE
    "ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE"

    AN OSCAR FOR TREADWELL


    CONSTELLATION
    "HONEYSUCKLE ROSE 'B"'

    DONNA LEE
    "INDIANA"

    BIRD TUNES
    by Form and Key (3)
    OTHER
    RELAXIN' WITH LEE
    "STOMPIN AT THE SAVOY"
    OTHER
    ORNITHOLOGY
    "HOW HIGH THE MOON"

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