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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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