My Funny Valentine
Richard Rodgers
BalladC-4/4
53
chords
16
different scales
7
tonal centres
First bars
C-6D-7b5 G7(b9)C-7F7
Eight half-diminished chords in fifty-three, the first arriving in the second bar. The half-diminished is the chord that most divides readings: there's the one that gets taught, and there's the one Thiago considers the only elegant option.
Fifty-three chords, seven centres, sixteen scales. The tune leaves the minor for the major at the end, and that passage is where almost everyone keeps playing the previous scale.

