So our super NERD mc aims for being someone so great in future cus ppl make fun of his name ,then before he could take his highschool entrance exams he spots this super cute mysterious girl (that's all he knows about her lol) so trying to talk to her he gets hit by truck kun he didn't really notice but this mysterious girl took most of the damage for him so he barely escaped death even as he was almost unconscious he still wanted to tell her his feelings so he decides to chase after her and luckily he found her so he thanks her for saving him and immediately asked her out ( he doesn't even know her name yet lol) she got so surprised so she tries to scare him off and says 'IF U MARRY ME I'LL GO OUT WITH U' and to her surprise our super nerd mc immediately replies with 'YES WITH PLEASURE' (he was only 16 and she was 14 ) and then he fell unconscious due to loss of blood. We will be using a mixture of root based and rootless voicings for the up tempo version and I would always recommend playing through a jazz standard with just the left hand voicings first so that you are familiar with the voicing shapes and sounds.*CLEARS THROAT* Okay lemme break it down a bit. If you take a look through the form you can see the majority of the melody moves in steps which makes it a fantastic tune for applying this theory.

Block chords are particularly useful for harmonising step wise melody lines. Throughout both lessons we will be applying block chord harmony using the ‘4 way close’. The second time through we will then up the tempo and play the tune with a swing feel. We will start of by creating a ballad arrangement and add in some interesting reharmonisations and passing chords.

It’s a great cocktail tune and can be played both as a ballad and at a medium swing. Over the years it’s been covered by many well known vocalists – Frank Sinatra perhaps being the most famous. Fly Me To The Moon is a famous tune and even the casual jazz listener would recognise the distinctive melody.

Fly me to the moon pdf