Fly Me to the Moon Jazz Backing Track – Here the music student can practice what he has learned about this very successful song.

“Fly Me to the Moon” is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard, originally called “In Other Words”. The famous 1964 version sung by Frank Sinatra had strong associations with the Apollo missions to the Moon.

This song was composed in 3/4 time, but Quincy Jones changed it to 4/4 in his arrangement.

The lyrics to this song are as follows:

“Fly me to the Moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please, be true
In other words, I love you

Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please, be true
In other words
In other words
I love you”

In this musical accompaniment, the improviser will have many opportunities to study the II-V-I cadence, a chord sequence widely used in jazz.

This backing track is composed of drums, bass, piano and guitar. The tempo is 140bpm.

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