How to practice What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? with play-along tracks?

Use the play-along backing track above to practice What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? in the key of B. Listen to the audio with bass, piano, and drums, start by playing the melody, then practice improvisation and soloing over the chord changes.

What scales to use for soloing over What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life??

For soloing over What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?, recommended scales include: bebop minor, bebop. Use arpeggio patterns over each chord to create melodic lines that follow the harmony of this jazz tune.

Who composed What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life??

What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? was composed by Michel Legrand / Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman in 1969. It is a swing standard in 4/4 time. The original key is A; this page shows it transposed to B.

What key is What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? in?

The original key of What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? is A. The form is AB with 35 bars. This page shows the chart transposed to B.

What scales work for improvising over What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life??

Recommended scales for What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? in B: bebop minor, bebop. Scales and arpeggios update in real-time as each chord plays, with context-aware analysis (e.g., Phrygian Dominant over secondary dominants).

How does the interactive backing track work?

The backing track plays with realistic walking bass, drum patterns, and voice-led chord voicings. Scales and arpeggios update in real-time as each chord plays. You can limit the fretboard zone for close-proximity voicings, toggle a reference melody, loop any section, and choose between multiple sound presets. Works for guitar, piano, bass, ukulele, and 7 more instruments.

Can I edit the chord chart?

Yes. You can modify the structure, chords, and arrangement of any standard to match your preferred version or create your own reharmonization.

What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? in B

Michel Legrand / Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman(1969)swing

Do Re MiC D E

BPM: 120

Chord Diagrams — What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? in B (Guitar)

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Chord Voicings Closest Voicing

Bm/A♯

Bm/A

Bm/G♯

F♯7sus4

Bm/F♯

What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? in B

Key of B

B major mixes barre and open elements. The B chord itself is a barre at fret 2, but E and A are comfortable open chords forming the IV and V. The open B string rings as the root, allowing creative drone-based arrangements. B is a intermediate-level key on guitar because the open B string rings as the root and the open E strings provide the 4th — useful for sus4 voicings and drone effects. This key mixes open and barre shapes, making it a good intermediate challenge that builds fretboard fluency.

Voice Leading

The bass line moves through B to B (ascending unison), B to B (ascending unison), B to B (ascending unison), B to G (descending major third), G to F# (descending half step), F# to E (descending whole step), E to C# (descending minor third), C# to F# (ascending perfect fourth), F# to F# (ascending unison), F# to B (ascending perfect fourth), B to A# (descending half step), A# to D# (ascending perfect fourth), D# to G# (ascending perfect fourth), G# to A (ascending half step), A to D (ascending perfect fourth), D to G (ascending perfect fourth), G to G (ascending unison), G to B (ascending major third), B to C# (ascending whole step). A half-step bass movement creates a strong leading-tone pull that demands resolution. The predominantly stepwise bass motion creates smooth, connected voice leading. When the progression loops, the bass returns from C# to B by whole step.

Scales for Improvisation

B major pentatonic works because every note is either a chord tone or a safe passing tone — there are no avoid notes. For soloing, this means you can play freely without clashing. Over dominant seventh chords, B Mixolydian adds the flat seventh for an authentic blues-rock edge.

swing4/4 · 35 bars · Form: AB

Chords: Bm, Bm/A♯, Bm/A, Bm/G♯, GMaj7, F♯m7, Em7, C♯m7♭5, F♯7sus4, F♯7, BMaj7, A♯m7, D♯7♭9, G♯Maj7, Am7, D7♭9, G9, G7♯11, Bm/F♯, C♯m7.

Scales for Improvisation B bebop minor, B bebop.

Diatonic chords: See all chords in the key of B