Fly Me To The Moon | TAB
Let’s take a look at how to comp Fly Me To The Moon.
We’ll do this using a few different ways, not by changing the chords, but by changing how we comp it.
Here’s idea 1, this is simple and requires a bass player so you could do this if in a band. wanting to keep it simple.

Let’s make sure we understand the Roman Numerals, we’re in the key of Am.
| Am7 (VI) | Dm7 (II) | G7 (V) | Cmaj7 (I) |
| Fmaj7 (IV) | Bm7b5 (VII) | E7b9 (IIIx) | Am7 (VI) A7 (VIx) |
| Dm7 (II) | G7 (V) | Gm6 (Vm) | A7 (VI) |
| Dm7 (II) | G7 (V) | Cmaj7 (I) | Bm7b5 (VII) E7b9 (IIIx) |
The E7b9 is not diatonic but turning chord III into major so it pulls towards VI is the most common variation. The b9 is a natural extension in Phrygian Dominant.
The Gm6 (Vm) is very unusual. The A7 (IIx) is pretty common, especially if followed by a Dm, an “up a 4th movement”.
Let’s move up the neck and play all chords there, we won’t change anything harmonically, although it will seem like it!

That first Am7 looks like a C, it’s a Dm shaped Am with the m3rd in the bass. For the Bm7b5, I’m using a bigger shape, a full Dm shape.
Notice how the E7b9 looks like a Ddim7. Study the intervals and make sure you can see it has all the intervals of an E7b9, just without the root.
The Gm6 looks like an E-shaped C7, study the intervals and you’ll see it’s a Gm6 with the m3rd in the bass.
The final E7b9 looks like an E-shaped Bb7.
Let’s try playing the chord progression having a bass note on beat one.

I’m using an open string or a chromatic note to get from one chord to the next.
The Fdim7/E is still an E7b9, just like described before, we can use a Ddim7 chord, and now we use an Fdim7, which is the same notes, but adding that low E. I call it Fdim7/E because it’s easier to visualise it.
In the final bar, we take this even further as we move from a Fdim7/E to a G#dim7/E, again, it’s all the same notes.
Here’s the last idea, now we mainly play a walking bass line.

I’m using the arpeggio of each chord in combination with chromatic notes taking us to the next chord.
Practice all four ideas individually, then along with Frank, and finally, see if you can blend them and maybe even develop them.
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