Meditation Backing Track Bossa – Apply your improvisation skills to this incredibly successful bossa nova.

Meditation is a bossa nova composed in the 1950s by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Newton Mendonça. The English lyrics were composed by Norman Gimbel. This song has the format A1-A1-B-A2 with 56 bars.

This theme has become a Brazilian jazz standard and has been interpreted by great names such as João Gilberto, Cal Tjader, Herbie Mann, Cliff Richard, Doris Day, Caetano Veloso, Astrud Gilberto, Nara Leão, Carminho, Alaíde Costa, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Jack Jones, Dexter Gordon, Joe Pass, Charlie Byrd, Gene Harris and many others.

This Brazilian jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol.1” on page 288, in the “Real Book vol.6” on page 266 and in the “Almir Chediak – Songbook Bossa-Nova vol.1” on page 100.

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

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