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Misty

Here is a very nice, smoky jazz lounge backing track from my collection of tracks I had recorded for playing live many years ago and don't really use much.

It is FREE for personal and educational use only.

With G below middle C and the lowest not of the melody in the original key of Eb, a low "G", C tuning is needed.

WikipediA

Misty "Misty" is a jazz standard written in 1954 by the pianist Erroll Garner.

Originally composed as an instrumental following the traditional 32-bar format, the tune later had lyrics by Johnny Burke and became the signature song of Johnny Mathis, reaching #12 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart in 1959. It has been covered numerous times, perhaps most notably by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan (1959), Frank Sinatra and Earl Grant (1961), Lloyd Price (1963), and also by Ray Stevens (1975) as a country song. It was also used as a theme song for NBC's Today Show for most of the 1960s.

Erroll Garner's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1991,[1] and Johnny Mathis version of the song was inducted in 2002.

The song plays a key role in the plot of the movie Play Misty for Me (1971).

Misty is a AABA 32 bar form.

toon_TrumpetDuoAs a “jazz” standard Misty uses 4-part contemporary, a.k.a "jazz" chords. Using a wider range of chords than your typical rock, pop or folk song. You'll definitely need to venture beyond the third fret of your instrument to play this arrangement.

When venturing into solo ukulele and “jazz” chords, a core set of chords and a solid foundation on how chords are constructed are needed to be successful in this style of music.

Core Jazz Chords for Ukulele - The “Big Six”. A series of ukulele lessons for developing a core set of 4-part contemporary chords.

How I Learned these “Jazz” Chords... Learning these more advanced chords doesn't take some mythical secret knowledge. All it takes is knowing how chords are created - where they come from. I learned them over many years. Using the information I ultimately put down in my book A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele. Study how to make any chord you will ever need to play using the tried and true chord formulas that the pros use. They're all in this book.

Core Chords - The Big Six - Building a Solid Chord Foundation

Lesson Code: UL42
Published: 2005-01-02
Updated: 2011-09-21

Lesson Info

Core Chords is a series of lessons for building your 4-part chords. These chords commonly called jazz chords, are really just 4-part chords used in a wide range of musical styles.

The Big Six chords include: Seventh 7, Major Seventh maj7, Minor Seventh m7, Half Diminished Seventh or Minor Seven Flat Five diminished 7 (m7b5), Diminished Seventh o7 and Augmented Seventh +7. These six chords form a core set of chords.

Lessons Link

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A Guide to Advanced Ukulele Chords - VOLUME I Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords. A Guide to Advanced Ukulele Chords Volume I provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.

Beyond learning the basic Ukulele chords, most Ukulele players struggle with advanced chords. Commonly called "jazz" chords, these more sophisticated voicings find a wide use in all forms of music.

This volume of A Guide to Advanced Ukulele Chords presents a highly organized and efficient approach to the mysterious subject of advanced chords. Chord dictionaries are not the answer. Even chord theory does not offer any insight into unraveling the complexity of advanced chords.

NEW 2nd Edition includes example chord progressions based on standard chord progressions and songs.

Tunings: C low or high “G” - (GCEA or gCEA).

For more information and samples checkout the A Guide to Advanced Ukulele Chords book information.

The Misty play-along track is available for FREE download to all private and paid online students as well as paid site members.

Login to your personal Student Assets & Resources page or signup for private lessons to get access to this and other play-alongs tracks.

Here's an example of using the Wave backing track where I recorded the melody with Guitar. All backing tracks are only the background tracks, no melody.

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Erroll Garner plays Misty

MISTY Performed by Joe Pass

Web Resources

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Lessons, TABS and Songs are intended FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY

Portions of copy regarding particular songs is from WidipediA, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

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Hard Copy Book: $12.95
PDF Download: $4.95

Exploring Jazz Chords on Ukulele

Exploring Jazz Chords takes the core chords from A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows their use over a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.

Building a Solid Jazz Chord Foundation using Seventh, Major Seventh, Major 6, Minor Seventh, Minor Sixth, Diminished Seventh, Minor Seventh Flat Five and Augmented Seventh chords.

Songs include: All of Me, All of Me - Variation, Autumn Leaves, All the Things You Are, Days of Wine and Roses, There Will Never Be Another You, Back Home In Indiana, Someday My Prince Will Come, Have You Met Miss Jones, Summer Samba, Sweet Georgia Brown, Sweet Georgia Brown - Variation, Yesterday, and It’s Only A Paper Moon

More info and complete samples of entire book.


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