Billie’s Bounce | B♭ Sheet Music
Jazz Lead Sheet Transposed for B♭ — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
Lyrics
1945 - Charlie Parker
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Read it in your key: Concert (C) (piano, guitar, voice) B♭ (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet) E♭ (alto sax, baritone sax) Bass clef (trombone, bass, cello)
About this Billie’s Bounce lead sheet
This is the jazz lead sheet for Billie’s Bounce, written by Charlie Parker in 1945, transposed for B♭ instruments — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet. The melody and the chord symbols are written a major second above concert pitch, so what you read matches what the rhythm section plays. The chart is written in G major (concert F major), in 4/4 time. Read it here for free and play it back — the band keeps sounding in concert pitch while you read your part. Need another key? Switch the Transpose preset above.
- Composer
- Charlie Parker
- Year
- 1945
- Key
- G major (written) · F major (concert)
- Edition
- B♭ transposed — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Style
- Medium Up Swing
- Tempo
- 180 BPM
- Genre
- Jazz, Bebop
- Format
- Lead sheet — melody and chord symbols
Billie’s Bounce chord changes
The chord progression of Billie’s Bounce transposed for B♭ instruments (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet), written in G major — concert F major — 12 bars, four to a line. These are the changes as a trumpet player reads them; the rhythm section sees the concert chart.
| G | C7 C♯dim | G | G7 | | C7 | % | G7 | Bm7 E7 | | Am7 | D7 | G | % |
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