Meditation Backing Track Bossa - Apply your improvisational knowledge to this amazingly successful bossa nova.

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

This theme has become a standard in Brazilian jazz 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 "Real Book vol.1" on page 288, in "Real Book vol.6" on page 266 and in "Almir Chediak - Songbook Bossa-Nova vol.1" on page 100.

This backing track consists of drums, double bass and piano. The tempo is at 140bpm.

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