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Today we're talking about the classic ballad,

Misty by Errol Garner. We'll take a look at the chords so we can figure out how to most

efficiently learn it and find out what harmonic secrets we can discover in the process. Let's do

this thing. What's up, Brent here from Learn Jazz Standards. We hope musicians just like you learn

how to play jazz all while shortening the learning curve, no matter what instrument you play. Welcome to another quick win episode of the podcast. By the way, we also have a video version of this podcast over at LearnJazzstandards.com where you can also see video of today's show. I'll be talking a little bit about color coding, but if you're listening to the audio version of this podcast, not to worry at all, because you'll totally be on the same page as all of us through audio alone. All right, let's dig into it. So Misty is a classic jazz ballad. Everybody needs to know this tune, but there are a lot of harmonic twists and turns in it that can make it a little bit difficult to memorize the chords. So let's simplify it. But first, listen what sounds like. The So the most important thing of course when learning the core changes to any tune is to make

sure that you know the melody really well, and the best way to learn the melody is by ear.

And if that sounds like something completely intimidating, like you have no idea how to go

about doing it.

I've never done that before.

Then definitely follow my list process for learning jazz standards, which is listen, internalize, sing, and transfer. And

I talk a lot more about that in my free guide called Learn Jazz Standards the Smartway, which I'll

leave a link to in the description as well as in the show notes. But taking a look at Misty,

the first chord that we have here is E flat major, and we know that that is actually the key of the tune because there are three flats here in the key signature.

So E flat major, all right?

So first chord is E flat major.

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