A Felicidade
Antonio-Carlos Jobim
Bossa NovaC4/4
90
chords
18
different scales
7
tonal centres
First bars
Cmaj7Cmaj7Cmaj7Cmaj7
Ninety chords, eight sections, seven tonal centres. A Felicidade alternates between minor and major as if it were two songs stitched together — and it's that seam that trips up improvisers.
Thirty-four chords admit more than one reading. There are eight half-diminished chords, a chord almost always played with the wrong scale because the most obvious choice sounds harsh over it.

