Days of Wine and Roses

Henry Mancini

Medium SwingF4/4

34

chords

17

different scales

6

tonal centres

First bars

Fmaj7Eb7#11A-7D7(b13)

The second bar already brings a dominant with a raised fourth, right after the home chord. It sounds wrong if you play the obvious scale over it — and it's the tune's calling card.

Thirty-four chords, seventeen different scales, six centres. That's a new scale roughly every two chords, in a tune that sounds amiable the whole way through.

The full analysis of this song

  • The scale for every chord
  • The triads
  • The arpeggio
  • The reason behind the choice
  • The player in all 12 keys
  • Thiago's commentary
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