The biggest challenge in this tune comes right away, where the chord movement in the second bar can throw you off even if you recognize the individual chords. This step is about isolating that moment and understanding how Charlie Parker plays over it. By focusing on how he deals with it, you’ll turn a confusing spot into something you can hear and phrase through naturally.

A key piece of this tune is the movement from I to IV, which shows up in the A sections and again in the bridge. This isn’t just a chord change, it’s a fundamental harmonic motion that creates forward momentum and a sense of arrival. By learning to hear and play this movement, you’ll conceptualize the tune in a much better way.

Since much of the tune sits on a major sound, you need some solid major vocabulary you can depend on. This means developing simple, flexible melodic ideas you can actually use in real time. With a little practice, you can learn some of these major ideas, so that you're no longer relying on just a major scale.