Breezin' by George Benson

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Instrumental → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Bridge → Solo → Verse

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

• Dmaj13 – Fmaj9 – Amaj9 – Fmaj9 – Dmaj13
  Imaj13 – bIIImaj9 – Vmaj9 – bIIImaj9 – Imaj13

Instrumental

• D – Bm7 – Em – A9sus4 (×8)
  I – vi7 – ii – V9sus4

Verse 1

• Dadd9 – D/A – A (×8)
  Iadd9 – I⁶₄ – V

Bridge 1

• Dadd9 – D/A – A (×4)
  Iadd9 – I⁶₄ – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

• Dadd9 – D/A – A (×2)
  Iadd9 – I⁶₄ – V

Solo

• Dadd9 – D/A – A (×13)
  Iadd9 – I⁶₄ – V

Verse 3

• Dadd9 – D/A – A (×10)
  Iadd9 – I⁶₄ – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fmaj9 (bIIImaj9) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0967, 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.