Flappy Flappy Birds

10/07/25 for jazz big band

Continuing a theme of writing for the Byres Road Big Band, this jazz waltz features baritone sax and trumpet somewhat the manner of Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker.

I wrote this mainly on the guitar, and the harmony is kind of… not that jazzy. I keep thinking of Bacharachs' 'South American Getaway' from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, although, apart from the time signature, it's really not very much like that at all.

Score, parts, demo

Flappy_Flappy_Birds_1.2a_score_and_parts.pdf

Flappy Flappy Birds – https://musescore.com/user/12368/scores/26835268

(This needs checking, seems to be a bug with updating on MuseScore)

Duration ~4'