The thirty-two-bar form is a song structure used frequently in American popular music. A tune adopting this structure follows a pattern of AABA with A and B being two different 8-measure sections. An example of jazz standards in the thirty-two-bar form is “Misty” written in 1954 by Erroll Garner.
To learn many of jazz standards by heart, the followings may be helpful.
Identify each 8-measure section.
For each 8-measure section, memorize a melody together with a base line (only tonic).
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