What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?: Lead Sheet / Fake Book

Intimate and reflective, with a conversational melody that invites interpretation. The harmonic language is lush without being overly complex, creating space for personal expression and sensitive accompaniment.

Jazz pianists and vocalists preparing for combos, jam sessions, or solo performance who understand how to read from a lead sheet. This format also works for music theory students studying standard song forms and harmonic language.

• Listen to several interpretations before settling on your approach. The melody sits differently depending on whether you lean into rubato or keep a strict pulse, and each choice changes how the harmony lands.
• Pay attention to the lyric rhythm if you're singing this. The phrasing in the verse differs from the chorus in ways that matter for phrasing the changes cleanly.
• Build your comping vocabulary around the changes rather than relying on a single voicing pattern. This tune rewards variety in how you voice and time the chords.

Feature this as a solo jazz piano piece on a jazz concert or evening of standards. It also functions well as an accompaniment for a vocalist in a mixed chamber or jazz ensemble setting.

• Reading lead sheet notation and interpreting slash chord symbols
• Recognizing and playing through jazz standard form and harmonic movement
• Developing flexible comping choices that support a melody
• Balancing rubato and rhythmic precision in lyrical performance