Home Again by Carole King

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Chorus → Break → Instrumental → Bridge → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). 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

• A – G – A – G/A
  I – bVII – I – bVII (bass A)

Verse 1

• A – E/A – D/A – A – D – A/C♯ – Bm7 – A – D/A
  I – V (bass A) – IV⁶₄ – I – IV – I⁶ – ii7 – I – IV⁶₄

Verse 2

• A – E/A – D/A – A – D – A/C♯ – Bm7 – A
  I – V (bass A) – IV⁶₄ – I – IV – I⁶ – ii7 – I

Bridge 1

• F♯m – A7 – D – A/C♯ – Bmaj7 – B7 – Bm7/E – E7
  vi – I7 – IV – I⁶ – IImaj7 – II7 – ii7 (bass E) – V7

Chorus 1

• A – E/A – D/A – A – D – A/C♯ – Bm7 – Bm7/E
  I – V (bass A) – IV⁶₄ – I – IV – I⁶ – ii7 – ii7 (bass E)

Break

• A – G/A – D/A (×2)
  I – bVII (bass A) – IV⁶₄

Instrumental

• A – E/A – D/A – Bm7 – A – D – G – D – A – D/A – A – E/A – D/A – A – D – G – D – A
  I – V (bass A) – IV⁶₄ – ii7 – I – IV – bVII – IV – I – IV⁶₄ – I – V (bass A) – IV⁶₄ – I – IV – bVII – IV – I

Bridge 2

• F♯m – A7 – D – A/C♯ – Bmaj7 – B7 – Bm7 – E7
  vi – I7 – IV – I⁶ – IImaj7 – II7 – ii7 – V7

Chorus 2

• A – E/A – D – A – D – A/C♯ – Bm7 – D/E
  I – V (bass A) – IV – I – IV – I⁶ – ii7 – IV (bass E)

Outro

• A – D/A – A – D – A/C♯ – Bm7 – D/E – A – D/A – D – A/C♯ – Bm7 – D/E
  I – IV⁶₄ – I – IV – I⁶ – ii7 – IV (bass E) – I – IV⁶₄ – IV – I⁶ – ii7 – IV (bass E)
• A – G/A – D/A (×3)
  I – bVII (bass A) – IV⁶₄
• A
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• G/A (bVII (bass A)) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• A7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to D.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 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.