Chords for Learn to Memorize Fly Me To The Moon via Circle of 5ths

[A#] _ Good morning class! _ _
Today we're going to look at the song Fly Me to the Moon and
see the prevalence _ of the circle of fifths.
It's all over this song.
_ For ease
of identifying the chords I'm going to play them closed position for the most
part.
Okay, but we're going to start with the key of C and we're going to play Fly
[Am] Me to the Moon.
Okay now watch all the circle here.
It starts with A minor 7.
_ _ _ _ In fact I want you [A#] to predict _ the _ _ next chord.
A minor [Am] 7 _ _ would go to what in the
circle of fifths?
[A#] A would go to a D right?
And [Dm] because we're in the key of C it's
going to be all white notes.
D minor.
[Am] So it's A _ [Dm] to D minor. _
_ [E] D would go to what
chord in the circle of fifths?
D goes to_
that's right G.
[Am] So A minor, _ [Dm] D minor.
[G] Here's
my G chord.
_ _ _ G of course [Em] goes to C. _
_ [F] C goes to F.
_ _ So I just got the first five
chords by knowing my circle of fifths.
A minor, _ [Dm] D minor, [G] G, [C] C [F] to F.
[A#] Now F should go
to B flat but in this case we go up a half step to [B] B natural.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] Okay so we do
break the circle of fifths after the first five chords.
However with this new
[B] broken circle, the B chord, _ we _ _ start a new circle.
So B would go to [F] _
E _ [E] right?
There it is E.
_ [Am] Going to A.
_ [A] _
[G#] A [Dm] goes to D.
_ _ [A] G goes_
sorry [G] D goes to G.
Okay so [Am] we've
got the first five chords, [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] our circle, and then we break the circle by going up a
[Bm] half. _ _
[F] Alright remember F _ should have gone to B flat.
We went up a half.
So F [G#] now we
break the circle.
[Bm] Here's a B chord.
_ [Dm] But this starts [Bm] another set of five chords
around the circle.
So [B] B, _ [E] E, [Am] A, _ [Dm] D, [G] G, girl. _
Now [C] G should go to C but it's [G] gonna go to
E.
So _ here's_
[Em] _ _ so we broke it again but now we're gonna do another five chords.
E
[A] goes to A.
[Em] _
[F] D to [G] G _ and [C] to C.
_ Alright _ and then [E] we break it.
_ Go to E and that brings
us back home.
[G] So this piece, this song, Five Meets the Moon, _ can be seen as or
analyzed as five chords around [Am] the circle of [Dm] fifths.
_ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ Go up a half step from where it
should go and start to do [B] another five.
One, [E] [A] two, three, [Dm] four, [G] five.
_ _ Now go down a third
and start another circle of fifths.
Five chords in a row.
[Em] E, [A] one, two, [Dm] three, [G] four, _
_ _ [F] _ _ [Em] _ _ five.
And then break it [E] _ by playing the E dominant chord which takes you of course
back to A [Am] minor. _
_ [Dm] _ _ [G] So _ again if the [Am] classical, _ classically trained student
were to play all these notes [Dm] _ [G] _ _ [C] all written out they'd have to memorize let's
say a hundred notes.
The amateur jazz pianist has to remember ten chords
roughly.
Professional has to remember, hey this is three sets [E] of circle of fifths.
The first [Am] set [Dm] _ _
[G] _ [C] _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _
_ [C] _ [F] _ _ and after the fifth chord you go up a half from where you should
go in the [Bm] circle and do another five chords.
[E] There's one, [Am] two, [Dm] three, four, [G] five.
_ _ _ _ Now I'm
going to break the circle and go down a [Em] third to the E.
_ Another five [A] chords.
_ _ [Dm] _ [G] _ _ [Fm] _ [C] _
_ And then this breaks the [E] circle.
[A#] So I had three sets of five _ _ each time broken but
then we started another set of five.
[Am] So here we go.
_ [Dm] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[C#] You say well that's
because you played in that key for so long Mark you kind of know that.
Well
yeah I do know the structure of it.
So give me any starting chord and I'll play
Fly Me to the Moon.
Any one. _ _ _
Okay I can't hear you.
So I'm going to pick one. _ _
_ _ [Bm] I
played in a few other keys but I don't play it in this key so this will be
rather easy to follow.
So we start out with, we'll start with a B chord.
_ _ _ _ So we go
to [Em] E, _ _ _ we go [A] to A, _
_ _ [D] to D, [G] to G. _
_ That's my first five [Bm] chords.
B, _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [A] A, _ [D] _ D, [G] to G.
_ _ _ Now after my
fifth chord I break the circle by a half step.
So [C] instead of going G to C I
go up a half.
Watch.
_ [Bm] _ _ This is all circled.
[Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _
[C#] _ _ Now this is my new circle.
Another five chords.
I'm on D flat.
_ _ Now we go to G [F#] flat.
_ _ _ Go [Bm] to B boy.
_ _ [B] To E.
[Em] _ _ _
To [A] A. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Break the circle.
I know I
go down a [F#m] third. _
F sharp.
Now here's my next set of five. _
_ _ [B] And _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ the five of my
original [F#] chord would be F sharp because I know I'm going back to B.
[Bm] _ _
_ [Em] To E, [A] A, [D] to D, [G] G.
_ _ _ _ Up a half from where I [C#] should go.
_ Start my new circle.
_ [F#] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [B] [Em] To E.
_ [A] _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[A#] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ I can honestly say I've
never played that in that key but I have complete control of my circle of fifths
and your ear will start to tell you whether [Em] it's major or minor.
There's
another couple of concepts I'll help you with with that which is basically the
seven diatonic seventh chord drill.
But please understand _ the power of the
circle of fifths.
I reduced that song into three patterns of five measures
each _ circle of fifths.
_ So it's five circle of fifths measures.
Break it by a
half step up from where it should go.
[N] Five circle of fifths movement.
Break it by
going down a minor third. _
Five _ _ more chords and then do the dominant of the
original chord. _ _ _
Okay?
So I will be able to transpose, modulate, play that song
with no music _ forever because I've got it conceptually in my mind and that's
what I want for you. _
So begin to look for circle of fifths.
They're all over and
they are the key to memorizing music exponentially faster and retaining it
exponentially longer.