Bongo Stomp by Little Joey & The Flips

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → 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

• E♭ – Cm – A♭ – B♭ (×2)
  I – vi – IV – V
• E♭
  I

Verse 1

• E♭
  I
• A♭ – E♭ – B♭ (×2)
  IV – I – V
• A♭ – E♭
  IV – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge

• A♭ – E♭ – A♭ – B♭ – A – B♭
  IV – I – IV – V – #IV – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro

• A♭ – B♭ – E♭
  IV – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• The Intro loops E♭ – Cm – A♭ – B♭ (I – vi – IV – V), a rotation of the ’50s progression (I–vi–IV–V family).

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0067, 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.