Body And Soul
Johnny Green
BalladDb4/4
60
chords
23
different scales
13
tonal centres
First bars
Eb-7 Bb7(b13)Eb-7 Ab7Dbmaj7 Gb7F-7 Eo7
Thirteen tonal centres in sixty chords. Body and Soul is a ballad, and ballads expose you: at a slow tempo every scale choice is audible in full.
The bridge is the test. The tune leaves the key and crosses ground almost no other ballad visits, then comes back. Twenty chords admit more than one reading, plus three diminished and four half-diminished — the two families most often guessed at.

