Comin' Home Baby by Mel Torme

Overview

Key: G minor · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse → Verse → Solo → Verse → 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

• G5
  I5

Verse 1

• Gm – F7 – Gm – B♭ – A – A♭ – Gm
  i – bVII7 – i – bIII – II – bII – i

Verse 2

• Gm6 – F7 – Gm6 – B♭ – A – A♭ – Gm
  i6 – bVII7 – i6 – bIII – II – bII – i

Verse 3

• Gmaj13 – Gmmaj7 – F7 – Gm – B♭ – A – A♭ – Gm
  Imaj13 – imaj7 – bVII7 – i – bIII – II – bII – i

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• Gm – F7 – Gm – B♭ – A – A♭ – Gm
  i – bVII7 – i – bIII – II – bII – i

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 2.

Verse 6

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro

• Gm
  i

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gmaj13 (Imaj13) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0213, 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.