Full House by Wes Montgomery

Overview

Key: F minor · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Intro ×2 → Intro → Solo → Solo → B Section → Solo

Where these chords come from: a chord chart of this song written by a musician and shared on the iReal Pro forums, archived in the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). It's one musician's reading of the song, not a transcription checked against the recording. This page shows that chart 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 1

• F
  I
• C – G (×2)
  V – II
• C
  V

Intro 2

Same chords as Intro 1.

Intro 3

Same chords as Intro 1.

Intro 4

• F
  I
• C – G (×2)
  V – II
• C
  V
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7 – C7♯9
  i7 – V7#9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×6)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7 – C7♯9
  i7 – V7#9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7 – B♭m7 – E♭13 – A♭maj7 – D♭7 – F♯maj7 – Bmaj7 – Gm7♭5 – C7♭9
  i7 – iv7 – bVII13 – bIIImaj7 – bVI7 – #Imaj7 – #IVmaj7 – iiø7 – V7b9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7 – C7♯9
  i7 – V7#9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7
  i7

Solo 1

• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• D♭7 – C7♯9
  bVI7 – V7#9

Solo 2

• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• D♭7 – C7
  bVI7 – V7
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• D♭7 – C7♯9
  bVI7 – V7#9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• D♭7 – C7 – Fm7
  bVI7 – V7 – i7

B Section

• B♭m7 – E♭13 – A♭maj7 – D♭7 – F♯maj7 – Bmaj7
  iv7 – bVII13 – bIIImaj7 – bVI7 – #Imaj7 – #IVmaj7

Solo 3

• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• D♭7 – C7 – Gm7♭5 – C7♭9
  bVI7 – V7 – iiø7 – V7b9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7 – C7♯9
  i7 – V7#9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×6)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7 – C7♯9
  i7 – V7#9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7 – B♭m7 – E♭13 – A♭maj7 – D♭7 – F♯maj7 – Bmaj7 – Gm7♭5 – C7♭9
  i7 – iv7 – bVII13 – bIIImaj7 – bVI7 – #Imaj7 – #IVmaj7 – iiø7 – V7b9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7 – C7♯9
  i7 – V7#9
• Fm7 – B♭7 (×3)
  i7 – IV7
• Fm7
  i7
• F – C – G – C – G – C (×5)
  I – V – II – V – II – V
• Fm11
  i11

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
F	I	Borrowed from F major	Intro, Solo
C	V	In the key	Intro, Solo
G	II	Secondary dominant (V/V)	Intro, Solo
Fm7	i7	Home chord (tonic)	Intro, Solo
B♭7	IV7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Intro, Solo
C7♯9	V7#9	In the key	Intro, Solo
B♭m7	iv7	In the key	Intro, B Section, Solo
E♭13	bVII13	In the key	Intro, B Section, Solo
A♭maj7	bIIImaj7	In the key	Intro, B Section, Solo
D♭7	bVI7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Intro, Solo, B Section
F♯maj7	#Imaj7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Intro, B Section, Solo
Bmaj7	#IVmaj7	Outside the key (chromatic)	Intro, B Section, Solo
Gm7♭5	iiø7	In the key	Intro, Solo
C7♭9	V7b9	In the key	Intro, Solo
C7	V7	In the key	Solo
Fm11	i11	Home chord (tonic)	Solo

Harmonic highlights

• F (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, F major.
• G acts as V/V: it resolves to C.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “Full House (inout)” (credited “Montgomery Wes”, style Waltz) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Performer/songwriter confirmed from Wikidata.
• Section names: from the chart's own markings: section names written on the chart (Intro, Verse, Chorus…) are kept, and rehearsal letters are shown as “A Section”, “B Section” and so on (the B of an AABA song is called the Bridge).
• Cross-check: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “Full House” (credited “Montgomery Wes”, style Waltz) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Performer/songwriter confirmed from Wikidata. A separately posted chart of the same song; its chords match this page's closely when both are read in the same key (similarity 69%).
• Chord charts are often written in a key that suits a particular singer or band, so this may not be the key of the original recording.
• The chart's D.S./D.C./coda jumps have been written out in playing order.
• About the song: Wikipedia.
• Verified: two community charts of this song, posted in different forum threads, agree on its harmony. They're still charts, not transcriptions checked against the recording.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.