Now's the Time
by Charlie Parker
🎷 Jazz
Difficulty
★★★☆☆
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
Parker's 1945 F blues with a riff-based head that became one of the most influential melodies in bebop. The deceptively simple theme, built from blues scale fragments, was so catchy it was later adapted into the R&B hit "The Hucklebuck."
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