Watermelon man sheet music pianovocalchords kindle edition by hancock, herbie, herbie hancock, jon hendricks. If youre in the early stages of learning to play jazz on the bass guitar or want to perform at a jazz session, watermelon man is a. Watermelon man sheet music download free in pdf or midi. Fun, funky, hip, groovycall it what you want, this chart is excellent in every way. Watermelon man sheet music for piano, soprano saxophone, bass. The exercise is a 16 bar solo that he breaks down into four bar sections. Were going to use this as an opportunity to work out some arpeggio shapes up and down the fretboard, and some other cool tricks you can use to spice up your soloing. Herbie hancock watermelon man sheet music in c major. How to play watermelon man on the bass guitar yt117 bass. Sign up now or log in to get the full version for the best price online. Watermelon man by herbie hancock full score and parts sheet.
Watermelon man guitar tab by herbie hancock with free online tab player. Watermelon man tab by herbie hancock songsterr tabs with rhythm. Watermelon man by herbie hancock full score and parts. Includes an high quality pdf file to download instantly. Original key dont know tuning regular tab notes nothing special. Can be played on any harp but is in the key of f so you play it on a bb harp in second position. The focus is on developing a chord solo to a section from the herbie hancocks watermelon man.
Because the chord riff is so unique, you play the melody and then the riff and move back and forth until the c7bb7 section, where you harmonize the melody. This is a complete lesson plan to get you to a professional sounding level as a guitarist. How to play watermelon man on the bass guitar yt117. Watermelon man became a hit, and he would later record it with his head hunters band as well in. Fender guitar blues deville reissue rev b schematics in pdf. Watermelon man sheet music pianovocalchords kindle. Watermelon man is a 1970 american comedy film directed by melvin van peebles and starring godfrey cambridge, estelle parsons, howard caine, durville martin, kay kimberley, mantan moreland, and erin moran. Dec 01, 2019 click here to get the free how to play watermelon man on the bass guitar pdf in this bass guitar lesson im going to show you how to play watermelon man by herbie hancock. Watermelon man text bass tab by herbie hancock songsterr. Watermelon man was written by herbie hancock, originally for his 1962 hit record takin off. Original key dont know tuning regular or low g tab notes in the fifth bar, the long melody note is impossible to hold as long as it should be dotted line. Mongo santamaria watermelon man sheet music pdf notes.
The gym is a big part of my life as well, and both of these hobbies kind of share the same work ethics. Watermelon man for piano solo, intermediate piano sheet music. In this bass guitar lesson im going to show you how to. Head hunters version of herbie hancock tune, basic outline of arrangement. Cuban percussionist mongo santamaria released the tune as a. Some one new to the guitar might struggle with some of the riffs but with some creativity you could work some simplified pieces in until your skill level comes up to speed.
About the theme of herbie hancocks classic jazz standard from 1962, tabbed upon request. Watermelon man sheet music for piano, soprano saxophone. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading watermelon man sheet music pianovocalchords. This is the melody of watermelon man, written by herbie hancock. We may offer this composition for a number of different instruments. You now mix the chords you just learned with the melody to watermelon man to explore a chord melody.
Sheet music arranged for pianovocal guitar in c major. Jan 15, 2014 watermelon man was written by herbie hancock, originally for his 1962 hit record takin off. Watermelon man became a hit, and he would later record it with his head hunters band as well in 1973. If you are looking at working on watermelon man beyond the standard scoring this is a great place to start. Herbie hancock watermelon man sheet music pdf notes, chords. Herbie hancock watermelon man text bass tab learn the song with the online tablature player artist. A song like watermelon man is absolutely perfect for this type of practice and i highly recommend you get together with a few of your jazz or funk musician friends and try to play over this. Watermelon man hugo santamaria ukulele misc unsigned bands chords 20. Mongo santamaria watermelon man sheet music notes and chords arranged for piano solo. Watermelon man by herbie hancock chords, melody, and music.
Watermelon man was first released on pianist and bandleader herbie hancocks debut album, takin off it was so popular it even reached the top 100 of the pop charts at the time over the years this jazz standard has been recorded over 100 times, but my favorite version is still the groovy original recording featuring hancock along with solos from freddie hubbard and. Jul 31, 2019 a song like watermelon man is absolutely perfect for this type of practice and i highly recommend you get together with a few of your jazz or funk musician friends and try to play over this. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard afro blue, as performed by john coltrane among others. Musicnotes pro plus members save 15% plus get pdfs included in every available key. Get the free pdf and backing tracks of everything covered in this. Matt puts the emphasis on playing twonote doublestop lines within a bluesbased progression. If you enjoy this watermelon man guitar lesson, please share it with your. He rerecorded the track for the album head hunters released in 2003. Learn how to play the watermelon man guitar chords, a chord melody arrangement, and a single note.
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Watermelon man by herbie hancock digital sheet music. Herbie hancock watermelon man sheet music pdf notes. His 1963 hit rendition of herbie hancocks watermelon man was inducted into the grammy hall of fame in 1998. Jul 15, 2016 in the video lesson below, youre going to get a stepbystep breakdown of how to play the classic herbie hancock jazz standard, watermelon man, on guitar. If you have a decent bari player, he or she will really love this one. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. If youre in the early stages of learning to play jazz on the bass guitar or want to perform at a jazz session, watermelon man is a tune you are highly likely to see. You can go to youtube and listen to adam gussow play it in lessons 3336. Watermelon man pdf flex 5 showblow grade 25 herbie hancockarr inge sunde. Here you can learn the form, the chords, the theme and some fill in tips for the jamsession blockbuster watermelon man by herbie. A guitar arrangement of watermelon man, including a 4 page pdf tab and a backing track, 3m 35s.
So just repeat it at beat 1 of the following bar, that sounds ok. This is the free watermelon man sheet music first page. A soundtrack album was released in 1970, and love, thats america, a song from the film and soundtrack, was released as a single in the same year. Klangfarbe musikverlag noten shop jazz guitar solo achim kohl.
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