Donna Lee closed up...

[MixBass]

I’ve been looking at lines in different ways for awhile simply to digest the construction of them. Some lines are easier for me to see by closing the register so to speak. Here is one possible way of closing up Donna Lee.
Some lines work great and others not so much. For example I dig the opening phrase closed up.
It may seem goofy to some but I enjoy it!

Will it attach...

 

[MixBass]

P.s., if anyone knows how to display the file lmk!

 

[Spin Doctor]

I’ve been looking at lines in different ways for awhile simply to digest the construction of them. Some lines are easier for me to see by closing the register so to speak. Here is one possible way of closing up Donna Lee.
Some lines work great and others not so much. For example I dig the opening phrase closed up.
It may seem goofy to some but I enjoy it!

Will it attach...

What do you mean by "closing the register"?

 

[Leo Smith]

What do you mean by "closing the register"?

He means adjusting some phrases in the melody so that it all sits in about an octave or an octave and a major third. The "official" melody spans about a two octave range.

In the PDF, he's rewritten the melody so that it all lays within the staff, except for one or two appearances of middle C.

It's actually an interesting exercise, I think. However, if you played this with you local serious jazz-heads, you might get some side-eye and a little criticism.

 

[MixBass]

I agree about the possibility of criticism if one played it this way on a gig, I wouldn’t. That said the reason I started looking at it different ways was as I played the melody in different keys some phrases needed to be moved around to work so I looked tightening it up as much as possible. In doing so it also gave me a different perspective on the architecture of some of the lines!

 

[Spin Doctor]

He means adjusting some phrases in the melody so that it all sits in about an octave or an octave and a major third. The "official" melody spans about a two octave range.

In the PDF, he's rewritten the melody so that it all lays within the staff, except for one or two appearances of middle C.

It's actually an interesting exercise, I think. However, if you played this with you local serious jazz-heads, you might get some side-eye and a little criticism.

Cool, makes sense. It does seem like an interesting exercise. Donna Lee was not really on my transcription radar so I've never given it a good look. Thanks for the info.

 

[Groove Master]

The problem is that it is written in bass clef. When you read those Parker's heads it is much better to read them in treble clef. Usually you are in the perfect register for a 4-strings bass. It should be played an octave higher when reading the bass clef and it is not as intuitive