Now’s the Time | E♭ Sheet Music
Jazz Lead Sheet Transposed for E♭ — alto sax, baritone sax
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 Now’s the Time lead sheet
This is the jazz lead sheet for Now’s the Time, written by Charlie Parker in 1945, transposed for E♭ instruments — alto sax, baritone sax. The melody and the chord symbols are written a major sixth above concert pitch, so what you read matches what the rhythm section plays. The chart is written in D 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
- D major (written) · F major (concert)
- Edition
- E♭ transposed — alto sax, baritone sax
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Style
- Medium Swing
- Tempo
- 130 BPM
- Genre
- Jazz, Bebop
- Format
- Lead sheet — melody and chord symbols
Now’s the Time chord changes
The chord progression of Now’s the Time transposed for E♭ instruments (alto sax, baritone sax), written in D major — concert F major — 12 bars, four to a line. These are the changes as a alto sax player reads them; the rhythm section sees the concert chart.
| D7 | G7 | D7 | % | | G7 | G7 G♯dim7 | D7 | % | | Em7 | A7 | D7 | A7 |
