Baby Workout by Jackie Wilson

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Solo → Instrumental → 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

• Fm(no5)
  i(no5)

Verse 1

• F7 – B♭7 – F7 – C7 – B♭7 – C7 – B♭7 (×2)
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7 – V7 – IV7
• F7
  I7

Chorus 1

• F7 – B♭7 – F7 – C7 – B♭7 – F7
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7 – I7

Verse 2

• F7 – B♭7 – F7
  I7 – IV7 – I7
• C7 – B♭7 (×2)
  V7 – IV7
• F7
  I7

Solo

• F7 – B♭7 – F7 – C7 – B♭7 (×2)
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7
• F7
  I7

Instrumental

• F7 – B♭7 – F7 – C7 – B♭7 – F7
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7 – I7

Chorus 2

• F7 – B♭7 – F7 – C7 – B♭7 (×2)
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7
• F7
  I7

Outro

• F7
  I7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm(no5) (i(no5)) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0672, 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.