Herbie Hancock’s Watermelon Man. He plays it on solo piano and then talks about how he came up with the melody.
Watermelon Man is a 16 bar form that is a blues modified a little bit.
F7 | – | – | –
Bb7 | – | F7 | –
C7 | Bb7 | C7 | Bb7
C7 | Bb7 | F7 | –
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An awesome tune. Check out Cantaloupe Island as well. 😀
Hey Stavros,
Yep, Cantaloupe Island is a good one too. Played both of them at a jam session the other day.
-Neal
Hey ya Neal ,
how’s it going ? this watermelon man is quite a tune too from Herbie just saw a version of it live really an interesting one can you make it as an ear training or can explain me those bars i’m not that good with the way you wrote it
Hey Hamza,
Doing well. Yep, it’s a great song.
The bars are the chords in each measure. The dashes just mean the chord repeats (same as previous measure).
-Neal