A Foggy Day

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• A Foggy Day

Course Lessons

• Foggy Day Chart
• Foggy Day Form
• Foggy Day - Oscar Peterson
• Foggy Day - Red Garland

Dive into this great Gershwin classic from the Great American Songbook. With plenty of recordings to draw inspiration from, you'll gain insight into different approaches to this tune.

In this course, we'll explore the song's form and chord changes in detail.

Also, we will look at 2 very different interpretations of the tune—one by Oscar Peterson, who plays it slow in a block chord style, and the other by Red Garland, who plays it up-tempo with rootless voicings in the left hand.

Course Objectives #

By the end of this course, you will:

• Learn a 32 bar form (with a 2-bars extension)
• Chord substitutions used by Red Garland and Oscar Peterson
• Play A foggy day in the keys of C and F

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