What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? by Michel Legrand

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 21 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section

Where these chords come from: a chord chart of this song written by a musician and shared on the iReal Pro forums, archived in the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). It's one musician's reading of the song, not a transcription checked against the recording. This page shows that chart as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

A Section 1

• Am – Ammaj7 – Am7 – Am6 – Fmaj7 – Em7 – Dm7 – Dm7/C – Bm7♭5 – E7
  i – imaj7 – i7 – i6 – bVImaj7 – v7 – iv7 – iv⁴₂ – iiø7 – V7

A Section 2

• Am – Ammaj7 – Am7 – Am6 – Fmaj7 – Em7 – Dm7 – Bm7♭5 – E7 – Amaj7
  i – imaj7 – i7 – i6 – bVImaj7 – v7 – iv7 – iiø7 – V7 – Imaj7

Bridge

• Bm7 – E7 – Amaj7 – F♯m7 – Bm7 – E7 – Amaj7 – A♭m7 – D♭7 – G♭maj7 – Gm7 – C7 – Fmaj7 – E7
  ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – bi7 – bIV7 – VImaj7 – bvii7 – bIII7 – bVImaj7 – V7

A Section 3

• Am – Ammaj7 – Am7 – Am6 – Fmaj7 – Em7 – Dm7 – Dm7/C
  i – imaj7 – i7 – i6 – bVImaj7 – v7 – iv7 – iv⁴₂
• Bm7♭5 – E7 – Fmaj7 (×2)
  iiø7 – V7 – bVImaj7
• F7♯11 – Am/E – Bm7 – E7 – Am – Bm7♭5 – E7♭9
  bVI7#11 – i⁶₄ – ii7 – V7 – i – iiø7 – V7b9

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
Am	i	Home chord (tonic)	A Section
Ammaj7	imaj7	Outside the key (chromatic)	A Section
Am7	i7	Home chord (tonic)	A Section
Am6	i6	Outside the key (chromatic)	A Section
Fmaj7	bVImaj7	In the key	A Section, Bridge
Em7	v7	In the key	A Section
Dm7	iv7	In the key	A Section
Dm7/C	iv⁴₂	In the key	A Section
Bm7♭5	iiø7	In the key	A Section
E7	V7	In the key	A Section, Bridge
Amaj7	Imaj7	Borrowed from A major	A Section, Bridge
Bm7	ii7	Borrowed from A major	Bridge, A Section
F♯m7	vi7	Borrowed from A major	Bridge
A♭m7	bi7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
D♭7	bIV7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
G♭maj7	VImaj7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
Gm7	bvii7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Bridge
C7	bIII7	Secondary dominant (V/bVI)	Bridge
F7♯11	bVI7#11	Outside the key (chromatic)	A Section
Am/E	i⁶₄	Home chord (tonic)	A Section
E7♭9	V7b9	In the key	A Section

Harmonic highlights

• Amaj7 (Imaj7) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.
• Bm7 (ii7) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.
• F♯m7 (vi7) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.
• C7 acts as V/bVI: it resolves to Fmaj7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?” (credited “Legrand Michel”, style Ballad) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Performer/songwriter confirmed from Wikidata.
• Section names: from the chart's own markings: section names written on the chart (Intro, Verse, Chorus…) are kept, and rehearsal letters are shown as “A Section”, “B Section” and so on (the B of an AABA song is called the Bridge).
• Cross-check: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?” (credited “Legrand Michel”, style Ballad) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Performer/songwriter confirmed from Wikidata. A separately posted chart of the same song; its chords match this page's closely when both are read in the same key (similarity 83%).
• Chord charts are often written in a key that suits a particular singer or band, so this may not be the key of the original recording.
• About the song: Wikipedia.
• Verified: two community charts of this song, posted in different forum threads, agree on its harmony. They're still charts, not transcriptions checked against the recording.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.