Watermelon Man

Herbie Hancock

Our version

Original version

The easy part can be played on trumpets and/or trombones

There are 4 trumpet parts ranging from quite easy to quite hard:
 

- Trumpet 1: Simple with low notes

- Trumpet 2: Simple with high notes
- Trumpet 3: Complicated with low notes

- Trumpet 4: Complicated with high notes

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The trombone part is easy. It's fine to play the trumpet parts on

trombone if you want more of a challenge!

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STRUCTURE:

- 4 bars intro
- Play the tune twice
- 4 choruses for solos

- Play the tune twice

- Pay the last 2 bars 3 more times

Easy brass

Easy brass

Trombone

Trumpet 1

Trumpet 1

Trumpet 1

Trumpet 2

Trumpet 2

Trumpet 3

Trumpet 3

Trumpet 4

Trumpet 4

E minor pentatonic

E blues scale

Your Performances

Send us a video or audio recording of you playing and, if you want, we can put it up here.

Here's Brecknock Year 5&6 playing it in Summer 2018,

after some workshops with saxophonist Tony Kofi.