Baby Don't Change Your Mind by Gladys Knight & The Pips

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 20 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Chorus ×2

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

• F/C – C – Am7 – Fmaj7 – G7 – Fmaj7 – C/E – C/G – G (×2)
  IV⁶₄ – I – vi7 – IVmaj7 – V7 – IVmaj7 – I⁶ – I⁶₄ – V
• Dm/A – A
  ii⁶₄ – VI

Verse 1

• Dm9 – Em7 (×2)
  ii9 – iii7
• C7sus4 – C7
  I7sus4 – I7
• Fmaj9 – Dm7♭5 – C7/E – C7sus4 (×2)
  IVmaj9 – iiø7 – I⁶₅ – I7sus4
• D7sus4 – D7 – G7sus4 – G7
  II7sus4 – II7 – V7sus4 – V7

Chorus 1

• F/C – C – Am7 – Fmaj7 – G7 – Fmaj7 – C/E – C/G – G (×2)
  IV⁶₄ – I – vi7 – IVmaj7 – V7 – IVmaj7 – I⁶ – I⁶₄ – V
• Dm/A – A
  ii⁶₄ – VI

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

• F/C – C – Am7 – Fmaj7 – G7 – Fmaj7 – C/E – C/G – G (×2)
  IV⁶₄ – I – vi7 – IVmaj7 – V7 – IVmaj7 – I⁶ – I⁶₄ – V

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 3.

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 3.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C7sus4 (I7sus4) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• Dm7♭5 (iiø7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to Fmaj9.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7sus4.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0705, 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.