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32-Bar AABA Form

A typical 32-bar AABA song form: eight-bar A sections built from I-vi-ii-V and iii-VI-ii-V, and a bridge that moves to IV and comes back through II7.

120 BPM
Practice in all 12 keys
  1. Cmaj7 Imaj7
  2. Am7 vi7
  3. Dm7 ii7
  4. G7 V7
  5. Em7 iii7
  6. A7 VI7
  7. Dm7 ii7
  8. G7 V7
  1. Cmaj7 Imaj7
  2. Am7 vi7
  3. Dm7 ii7
  4. G7 V7
  5. Em7 iii7 A7 VI7
  6. Dm7 ii7 G7 V7
  7. Cmaj7 Imaj7
  1. Gm7 v7
  2. C7 I7
  3. Fmaj7 IVmaj7
  5. Am7 vi7
  6. D7 II7
  7. Dm7 ii7
  8. G7 V7
  1. Cmaj7 Imaj7
  2. Am7 vi7
  3. Dm7 ii7
  4. G7 V7
  5. Em7 iii7 A7 VI7
  6. Dm7 ii7 G7 V7
  7. Cmaj7 Imaj7

Four-note rootless voicings in their two forms, with the 3rd or the 7th on the bottom, played over the root.

Customize each chord
Meter
4/4
Form
A-A-B-A
Bars
32

Most standards written between the 1920s and the 1950s have this shape: a theme stated twice, a contrasting bridge, and the theme again. This chart is a generic skeleton rather than any one song, but its moves (a ii-V into IV at the bridge, a II7 leading back to ii-V) turn up everywhere. Practice keeping your place in the form: play through it counting bars, and listen for where each section begins.

Reharmonize Analyze these changes