Charlie Parker Omnibook

[tonym]

Anyone work out of this? I just got it and am starting to learn Confirmatoin, and a lot of the phrasing and articulation Parker does is very confusing, and the notation doesn't help very much. For example, a lot of times it sounds like he'll slide up to the note or trill, but on the notation it just has a little squiggly line over top.

Anyways, if anyone can help me with this, it would be great.

[phantom]

hey! welcome to ibreathe, how about introducing yourself in the new member zone?!

i got the omnibook the other day as well!! and started right away like you ;) .
and i know your problem. parker does so many things which are poorly written out or not written out at all. on the recordings you can hear him playing wonderful legato stuff to approach notes, or quick trills but they are transcribed rarely :( .
but there is a cure :) .
i downloaded transcribe! (http://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/download.html) and slowed the tricky bits down!
wonderful easy, little prg. a true lifesaver with all those tiny articulation things and other fast or bad too hear stuff.
you can even let the prg show you wich note is played!

well enough advertising :D - go and ask carvinite, he loves that prg as well ;)

[tonym]

hey! welcome to ibreathe, how about introducing yourself in the new member zone?!

i got the omnibook the other day as well!! and started right away like you ;) .
and i know your problem. parker does so many things which are poorly written out or not written out at all. on the recordings you can hear him playing wonderful legato stuff to approach notes, or quick trills but they are transcribed rarely :( .
but there is a cure :) .
i downloaded transcribe! (http://www.seventhstring.com/xscribe/download.html) and slowed the tricky bits down!
wonderful easy, little prg. a true lifesaver with all those tiny articulation things and other fast or bad too hear stuff.
you can even let the prg show you wich note is played!

well enough advertising :D - go and ask carvinite, he loves that prg as well ;)

Thanks, I've been reading here for about a year, just haven't had anything to post about til now. I enjoy this place because it's rooted in jazz and classical, unlike musicianforums which is shred mania. Anyways, I've been using transcribe to slow down the parts which I don't get and figure them out myself, but how do you get it to show you which note is played?

Are you playing confirmation? Or did you start with something else?

[phantom]

i started with parkers mood . seemed to be one of the easier ones ;) .

there is this analysis thing in transcribe where you see a keyboard and the waveforms above. if you mark a certain part of the song, those waveforms will show peaks above the played notes on the keyboard.

[tonym]

i started with parkers mood . seemed to be one of the easier ones ;) .

there is this analysis thing in transcribe where you see a keyboard and the waveforms above. if you mark a certain part of the song, those waveforms will show peaks above the played notes on the keyboard.

Yeah for some reason I thuoght that they had arranged the songs in the omnibook in some sort of logical order like easiest to hardest, but I guess not. That's fine, I need to work on my reading skills.