BLUE MONK is a blues first recorded on September 22, 1954, for the album  “Thelonious Monk Trio”, and is the tune Monk recorded the most. The melody is a classic “call and response” form, common to African American music. It’s a deceptively simple tune wide open to interpretation and variation. It lays nicely in the Open D (or Open E) tuning.

OPEN D Tuning

D ,  A,   D,   F#,  A ,  D