Baby Come Back by Player

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 12 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription 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

Intro

• A♭/B♭ – Gm7 (×3)
  IV (bass B♭) – iii7
• Cm
  vi

Verse 1

• A♭/B♭ – Gm7 (×3)
  IV (bass B♭) – iii7
• A♭/B♭ – C7sus4 – C7
  IV (bass B♭) – VI7sus4 – VI7

Chorus 1

• A♭maj7 – Gm7 – Cm – Fm7 – Gm7 – Cm (×2)
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – vi – ii7 – iii7 – vi
• D♭maj7
  bVIImaj7

Interlude

• A♭/B♭ – Gm7
  IV (bass B♭) – iii7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• A♭maj7 – Gm7 – Cm – Fm7 – Gm7 – Cm (×2)
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – vi – ii7 – iii7 – vi
• D♭maj7 – B♭7sus4 – B♭7
  bVIImaj7 – V7sus4 – V7

Bridge

• G♭maj7 – D♭maj7 (×2)
  bIIImaj7 – bVIImaj7
• G♭maj7 – Fm7 – B♭m – B♭7sus4
  bIIImaj7 – ii7 – v – V7sus4

Chorus 3

• A♭maj7 – Gm7 – Cm – Fm7 – Gm7 – Cm (×2)
  IVmaj7 – iii7 – vi – ii7 – iii7 – vi

Outro

• Fm7 – Gm7 – Cm – A♭maj7 – Gm7 – Cm (×2)
  ii7 – iii7 – vi – IVmaj7 – iii7 – vi
• Fm7 – Gm7 – Cm
  ii7 – iii7 – vi

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♭maj7 (bIIImaj7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• B♭m (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1003, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.