Anthropology

by Charlie Parker

🎷 Jazz
Difficulty ★★★★★
Tuning Standard
Capo None

Parker and Dizzy Gillespie's blazing 1946 rhythm changes contrafact in Bb. The furious unison melody races through the I Got Rhythm form at blistering tempos, packed with characteristic bebop vocabulary and chromatic passing tones.

e|---6--8--10--13--10--8--6---8--6--3--6--8--10---|
B|---6--8--10--13--10--8--6---8--6--3--6--8--10---|
G|---7--7--10--12--10--7--7---7--7--3--7--7--10---|
D|---8--8--10--13--10--8--8---8--8--3--8--8--10---|
A|---6--8--10--13--10--8--6---8--6--3--6--8--10---|
E|------------------------------------------------|

e|---13--10--8--6---3--1--3--6--8--10--13--6------|
B|---13--10--8--6---3--1--3--6--8--10--13--6------|
G|---12--10--7--7---3--2--3--7--7--10--12--7------|
D|---13--10--8--8---3--3--3--8--8--10--13--8------|
A|---13--10--8--6---3--1--3--6--8--10--13--6------|
E|------------------------------------------------|