12 October 2025
Harmonic Analysis (RMA) Worksheet for the song: My Favorite Things.
My Favorite Things
Jazzplayers, I do (Curt) will associated with the John Coltrane version of the song.
Curt, your CD was fantastic. You are among the ukulele masters of our day.— John K.
My Favorite Things is in the The Daily Ukulele
— 365 Songs for Better Living book.
Theses and many other chords are covered in the Learn A Chord A Day series of lessons.
My Favorite Things — Premium Play-along Track
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Here is a Demo of Desafinado to get an idea of the quality of these custom play-along tracks.
Play-along Demo: Desafinado
Desafinado — Premium Play-along Track with Guitar Melody Played
I, (Curt) originally created these tracks to perform over for gigs and this was a demo for booking gigs.
These Premium Play-along Tracks are available to LearningUkulele.com Site Members and are my personal one-of-kind tracks I (Curt) and Chuck Anderson recorded and arranged.
View Play-along with Leadsheet at larger size …Using Am in measure three above is close, with the notes A C E also in the F#m7b5 (F# A C E) but Am would create the wrong harmonic analysis and misses the modulation back to Em that should start in this measure — not the next measure. F# Locrian is a great contemporary scale choice for the II V to Em vs. the traditional Harmonic Minor of the I choice..
There's that Am in measure three above pretending to be F#m7b5 (F# A C E) . This time the II V is a Picardy Third resolving to resolving to E . F# Locrian is contemporary scale choice for a Picardy Third vs. the traditional Harmonic Minor of the I choice.
These two measure are not on the play-along track.
End on G6 , the I of the Relative Major of Em . Or, be adventurous, wait for one beat and try Em6/9 — 0 2 2 4. For a Turnback to play the song again us the F#m7b5 B7 , the II V to Em.
Vanillachanges for My Favorite Things • The Vanilla Book uncovers the basic ("Vanilla") chord changes to over 400 of the most commonly played jazz
standardsto help the jazz player learn the basic
changesand allow the player to add embellishments and substitutions on a solid framework.
Embellishments to basic chords such as added 6ths, 9ths, 13ths, flat 5ths etc. are usually determined by the melody notes and the style of music being played.
[: Em | Em | Em | Em |
| C | C | C | C |
| Am7 | D7 | G | C |
| G | C | F#m7b5 | B7 :]
|| E | E | E | E |
| A | A | A | A |
| Am7 | D7 | G | C |
| G | C | F#m7b5 | B7 |
|| Em | Em | F#m7b5 | B7 |
| Em | Em | C | C |
| C | C | A7 | A7 |
| G | C | C | D7 |
| G | C | G | C |
1._________________________________________________ D.C.
| G | C | F#m7b5 | B7 :]
2.________________________________________ Last Time __
| G | C | G | G |
A Harmonic Analysis (RMA/HA) and its worksheet are intended to show the function of the chords, the harmonic principles used, the keys and tonalities the song explores. And, can be used for scale selections and chord and scale substitutions.
lead leadsheet.Minimal roadmap information such as repeats, fine, D.S., D.C., and codas has been used in preparing the worksheets to somewhat mirror the leadsheet in the Daily Ukulele book.
Yellow Book. You should start to recognize that 1st endings typically always return to a previous verse or an
section. With a 2nd ending, a transition to a different part of the song, a 
or chorus. Harmonic Principles are used for these repeats and transitions.- My Favorite Things is in 3/4, Common Time and the Key of Em/G .
- Full Diatonic
- Partial Diatonic • Full Diatonic includes Secondary Dominant chords
- Internal Modulation
Contemporary Scales: Minor Pent: Minor Pentatonic, Pent: Major Pentatonic, Blues,
Scale/Mode Names: Ion: Ionian (Major), Dor: Dorian (Minor), Phrygian: Phrygian, Lyd: Lydian, Mix: Mixolydian (Dominant), Aeol: Aeolian (Natural Minor), Loc: Locrian
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My Favorite Things.
My Favorite Things.
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My Favorite Things.
My Favorite Things.
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