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Triadic study on "Moanin"

Triadic study on "Moanin"

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Chester Lukas Harlan
Oct 30, 2021
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Triadic study on "Moanin"
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Hello,

Here’s a sequence that can help you learning the triads of the first 4 chords implied in the song “Moanin”, by Bobby Timmons, first recorded by Art Blakey's band the Jazz Messengers in 1958.

The sequence is: |Fm|D|G|C|, and it starts from the tonic, then from the 3rd and finally from the 5th.

Actually the first 4 chords of the original song are |Fm…

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