Blue Skies | B♭ Sheet Music
Jazz Lead Sheet Transposed for B♭ — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
Lyrics
Blue Skies 1926 - Iving Berlin Blue skies, smilin' at me Nothin' but blue skies do I see Bluebirds singing a song Nothin' but bluebirds all day long Never saw the sun shinin' so bright Never saw things lookin' so right Noticin' the days hurryin' by When you're in love, my how they fly Blue days, all of them gone Nothin' but blue skies from now on
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Read it in your key: Concert (C) (piano, guitar, voice) B♭ (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet) E♭ (alto sax, baritone sax) Bass clef (trombone, bass, cello)
About this Blue Skies lead sheet
This is the jazz lead sheet for Blue Skies, written by Iving Berlin in 1926, transposed for B♭ instruments — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet. The melody and the chord symbols are written a major second above concert pitch, so what you read matches what the rhythm section plays. The chart is written in B♭ major (concert Ab major), in 4/4 time. Read it here for free and play it back — the band keeps sounding in concert pitch while you read your part. Need another key? Switch the Transpose preset above.
- Composer
- Iving Berlin
- Year
- 1926
- Key
- B♭ major (written) · Ab major (concert)
- Edition
- B♭ transposed — trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet
- Time signature
- 4/4
- Style
- Medium Up Swing
- Tempo
- 180 BPM
- Genre
- Jazz, Great American Songbook
- Format
- Lead sheet — melody and chord symbols
Blue Skies chord changes
The chord progression of Blue Skies transposed for B♭ instruments (trumpet, tenor sax, clarinet), written in B♭ major — concert Ab major — 25 bars, four to a line. These are the changes as a trumpet player reads them; the rhythm section sees the concert chart.
| Gm | Gm(maj7) | Gm7 | Gm6 | | B♭maj7 G7 | Cm7 F7 | B♭6 | Am7♭5 D7♭9 | | B♭6 | B♭maj7 | E♭m6 B♭maj7 | E♭m6 B♭maj7 | | F7 B♭6 | B♭maj7 | E♭m6 B♭maj7 | E♭m6 B♭maj7 | | Am7♭5 D7♭9 | Gm | Gm(maj7) | Gm7 | | Gm6 | B♭maj7 G7 | Cm7 F7 | B♭6 | | Am7♭5 D7♭9 |
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