Coming on Strong by Brenda Lee

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Chorus → Verse → 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

• C – G7sus4 (×2)
  I – V7sus4

Chorus 1

• C – Am – F/C – C – G7 – F – C – Am – F – G7 – C
  I – vi – IV⁶₄ – I – V7 – IV – I – vi – IV – V7 – I

Verse

• G – C (×7)
  V – I
• G – D (×8)
  V – II
• E – A (×6)
  III – VI
• G
  V

Chorus 2

• C – Am – F/C – C – G7 – F – C – Am – F – G7 – C – F
  I – vi – IV⁶₄ – I – V7 – IV – I – vi – IV – V7 – I – IV

Outro

• C – F (×5)
  I – IV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D acts as V/V: it resolves to G.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0968, 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.