This week, I finally chose my first song which is "Fly Me To The Moon." The reason why I chose this song is because this is one of my favorite Jazz songs and my piano professor recommended me this song based on my piano skills and techniques. 

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 Fly Me To The Moon is is a song written in April 1954 by Bart Howard. There are a lot of versions of this song, but Kaye Ballard(singer) made the first recording of the song the year it was written. In 1954, when he began to write this song, Bart Howard had been pursuing a career in music for over 20 years. He played piano to accompany cabaret singers, but also wrote songs with Cole Porter, his idol, in mind. In response to a publisher's request for a simpler song, Bart Howard wrote a cabaret ballad which he titled "In Other Words."

A publisher tried to make him change some words from "fly me to the moon" to "take me to the moon," but Howard refused. Many years later Howard commented that "it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes."

The song was originally composed in 3/4 time signature but was changed to 4/4 by Quincy Jones in his arrangement to give it a more "looser, swing" feel.

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This was very interesting information that I found out during my research about this song, and the picture that I posted above is the picture of Bart Howard. Next week, I will start practicing this new song, review all the chords that I have learned, and learn new chords.