Fly Me to the Moon Research

 

This is an update to this blog entry Date 17/12/2022. Kevin from Pianote did a presentation on How to Harmonise a song and chose Fly me to the moon to demonstrate principles and technique. Couldn't believe my luck.

The following, from Lance B, and link shows the various techniques...1/3rds, 1/6ths and block chords.

This last week when i was practicing it for the recital to get it faster (🙄), I started to have an inkling that my approach to learning a piece was wrong. Kevin had shown a walking bass line for FMTTM in that week's Piano Bench, and I though that's something I'll add when I eventually perfect this version.

 

So today he used FMTTM to show like five different kinds of harmonizing you can do. Right there it really clicked for me that the song isn't a piece to perfect, it's a structural skeleton to hang all the techniques on to. It has chords and a melody, and once those are internalized, I can just play it with whatever techniques and skill I have. Just like all the different ways I'd play a scale for practice.

 

That may not seem like a big deal, but it really switched my mindset from, "Sheesh, not this song again," to, "today I'm going to play the Bb scale and FMTTM with this cool 6th interval harmony." There's no hating on the Bb scale. There's no hating on FMTTM. 

 

And this is Kevin doing all the things to Fly Me to the Moon.



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