Great Day by Vincent Youmans

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → A Section → Bridge → A Section

Where these chords come from: a lead sheet of this public-domain song, contributed by a musician to the Wikifonia archive and preserved in the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). It describes the song as written, not any particular recording. This page shows that lead sheet 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

A Section 1

• E♭ – A♭ – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭
  I – IV – I – V7 – I

A Section 2

• E♭ – Fm7 – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭
  I – ii7 – I – V7 – I

Bridge

• A♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – Cm7 – B♭ – F7 – B♭maj7(no3) – B♭7
  IV – I7 – IV – V7 – I – vi7 – V – II7 – Vmaj7(no3) – V7

A Section 3

Same chords as A Section 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the OpenEWLD lead-sheet collection (Simonetta et al., 2018). Community-contributed lead sheet (chord symbols over the melody) from the Wikifonia archive, MIT licence. Title and songwriter credit as written on the sheet.
• Section names: detected by code from repeated 8-, 12- and 16-bar phrases (letters such as A and B mark different phrases; a phrase that comes back keeps its letter). Lead sheets rarely print section names.
• Not verified: only one lead sheet of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• 1 chord was simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.