Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:15:13 CST
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Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar
Subject: Re: LSN: My Favorite Things [TAB]
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Many thanks to Dennis O'Neil  for the chord and scale analysis.

I understand that this is a somewhat difficult piece to play for a lot of
fellow guitarists in this group, so I'll try to give the chord positions and
the fingerings I use for it.  It's worth it to make the effort and learn it,
if you like jazz music at all.  Besides being just beautiful, the piece also
has a very interesting chord progression and if you can figure out how the
melody works with the chords and how the progression comes together as a whole
you'll get a very good insight into jazz music in general.  Dennis' analysis
is very helpful.

Under each chord I'll write the fret positions and the fingering I use.
I'm not claiming is the best way to play the piece but it works ok for me.
Some chord fingerings are played that way in order to get to the next chord
more easily.  I would suggest that you play this song with your fingers, not
with a pick.  The chords are fingered in such a way so that the right hand's
thumb plays the bass note and the i (index) m (middle) and r (ring) fingers
play the rest of the chord.

In this, and may other jazz songs for the guitar, the bass note is usually in
the 6th (low E) or 5th (A) string and the rest of the chord uses the
4th, 3rd and 2nd string ( D, G, and B).  So you have four notes altogether
to play a chord which is usually enough.  The high E of course can be added
in many fingerings to play additional chord embellishments.

If you are totally new to this kind of playing, try to play the 3/4
signature as t-imr-imr | t-imr-imr | ...   (t=thumb), the usual
oom-pah-pah style of waltz songs.  The i m and r fingers are moved
up a string from their usual fingerstyle position so that they play the
4th 3rd and 2nd string instead of the 3rd 2nd and 1st.  With practice
you'll be able to give it a jazz waltz feel and move away from the
straight 3/4 feel I'm describing here.

The first column under each bar is the fret position and the second is the
fingering. 1= index, 2= middle, 3=ring, 4= pinky (left hand).  Dots mean that
you use the form  described in a previous bar for the same chord.  Take it
slow at first and practice it so that you can give it a nice jazz feel after
you learn all the positions etc.




My Favorite Things, by Richard Rodgers (Real Book changes)
3/4, 1 sharp:
Section 1:
||:  Em7   |  F#m7  |  Em7   |  F#m7  |  CM7   |  CM7   |  CM7   |  CM7   |
E    x   x    x  x                       x   x
B    8   2   10  2      .         .      8   2     .         .       .
G    7   1    9  1      .         .      9   4     .         .       .
D    9   3   11  3      .         .      9   3     .         .       .
A    7   1    9  1                       x   x
E    x   x    x  x                       8   1

  |  Am7   |  D7    |  GM7   |  CM7   |  GM7   |  CM7   | F#m7b5 |  B7    :||
     x  x     x  x     x  x     x  x                       x  x     x  x
     5  1     7  4     3  1     5  4      .        .      10  4    10  4
     5  1     5  1     4  3     4  2      .        .       9  2     8  1
     5  1     7  3     4  2     5  3      .        .      10  3     9  3
     x  x     5  1     x  x     3  1                       9  1     9  2
     5  1     x  x     3  1     x  x                       x  x     x  x

Section 2:
||   EM7  |  F#m7  |  EM7   |  F#m7  |  AM7   |  AM7   |  AM7   |  AM7   |
    x  x                                x  x
    9  4      .        .        .       5  2      .        .        .
    8  2      .        .        .       6  4      .        .        .
    9  3      .        .        .       6  3      .        .        .
    7  1                                x  x
    x  x                                5  1

  |  Am7   |  D7    |  GM7   |  CM7   |  GM7   |  CM7   | F#m7b5 |  B7b9  ||
                                                                    x   x
                                                                   10   4
           (same as in section 1 ) ...                              8   1
                                                                   10   3
                                                                    9   2
                                                     NR chord -->   x   x
                                                     -->
Section 3:
||   Em7   |  Em7   | F#m7b5 |  B7    |  Em7   |  Em7   |  CM7   |  CM7   ||

Section 4:
||   CM7   |  CM7   |  A7    |  A7    |  GM7   |  CM7   |  CM7   |  D7    ||
                       x  x
     .         .       5  3                        .        .
     .         .       6  4                        .        .
     .         .       5  2                        .        .
                       x  x                        ^        ^
                       5  1                These two in 3rd position

Section 5:
||   G6    |  CM7   |  G6    |  CM7   |  GM7   |  CM7   | F#m7b5 |  B7    ||
   x  x       x  x
   5  4       5  4     .         .        .        .        .         .
   4  2       4  2     .         .        .        .        .         .
   x  x       5  3     .         .        .        .        .         .
   5  3       3  1
   3  1       x  x

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And an attempt at the melody...

I'll tab it in straight 8ths, but when you learn it play it with a triplet
feel.  A number will mean the fret you'll have to play in the notated
string, an H before a number will mean a half note and a dH will mean a
dotted half (in this case a dotted half will take up all the bar because
of the 3/4 meter).

Section A                  (The song is in AABC form)

  Em7       F#m7       Em7         F#m7     CM7    %      %      %
E ---7---7-|----------|-----------|--------|------|------|------|------|
B ---------|--7-------|-----------|--7-----|------|------|------|------|
G -9-------|-----9--9-|------9--9-|----H9--|-...repeat the 4 bars  ... |
D ---------|----------|---9-------|--------|------|------|------|------|
A ---------|----------|-----------|--------|------|------|------|------|
E ---------|----------|-----------|--------|------|------|------|------|


Am7       D7        GM7        CM7     GM7        CM7      F#m7b5      B7
----7----|---------|----------|-------|----------|--------|-----7-----|-----|
------10-|----7----|----10--8-|-------|----------|---7--8-|-10-----10-|-----|
-9-------|-9-----7-|-7--------|-------|--------7-|-9------|-----------|-dH8-|
---------|---------|----------|--dH10-|-9--10----|--------|-----------|-----|
---------|---------|----------|-------|----------|--------|-----------|-----|
---------+---------|----------|-------|----------|--------|-----------|-----|

Section B:  Is exactly the same as in section A except the last bar where
            instead of dH8 on the G string you play dH8 on the high E.


Section C:  There are tied notes in this section and I'll notate them as pairs
            with {...} around them. That means that you play the first note
            but it's time value is combined with the value of the same note on
            the next bar.  A whole (H) note takes two beats and a dotted whole
            (dH9) takes trhree beats.

 Em7       Em7      F#m7b5      B7        Em7        Em7     CM7      CM7
|----7--7-|-H7-----|-----------|---------|----------|-------|--------|-------|
|---------|--------|----10--10-|-H10-----|-----8--8-|-H8----|--------|-------|
|-R-------|-----{9-|-9}--------|------{8-|-8}-------|-------|--{dH9--|--dH9}-|
|---------|--------|-----------|---------|----------|-----9-|--------|-------|
|---------|--------|-----------|---------|----------|-------|--------|-------|
|---------|--------|-----------|---------|----------|-------|--------|-------|

 CM7        CM7        A7          A7        GM7        CM7    CM7    D7
|----------|----------|-----------|---------|--7--8--7-|-{dH8-|--dH8}|--dH7-|
|----7-----|--7-----7-|--8--10--8-|--H10--8-|----------|------|------|------|
|-9-----9--|-----9----|-----------|---------|----------|------|------|------|
|----------|----------|-----------|---------|----------|------|------|------|
|----------|----------|-----------|---------|----------|------|------|------|
|----------|----------|-----------|---------|----------|------|------|------+

 G6     CM7   G6    CM7   GM7   CM7   F#m7b5   B7
|------|-----|-----|-----|----|------|-------|-----|
|--dH8 |-----|-----|-----|----|------|-------|-----|
|------|-----|-----|-----|----|------|-------|-----|
|------|-----|-----|-----|----|------|-------|-----|
|------|-----|-----|-----|----|------|-------|-----|
|------|-----|-----|-----|----|------|-------|-----|

========================================================================

Happy waltzing!


[:> Mario

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