In the Garden by C. Austin Miles

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 12

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → A Section → B Section → C Section → D 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

• A♭ – D♭ – A♭
  I – IV – I

B Section 1

• E♭7 – A♭/C – E♭ – A♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – B♭7
  V7 – I⁶ – V – I – II7 – V – II7

C Section 1

• E♭7 – A♭ – E♭7/B♭ – A♭
  V7 – I – V⁴₃ – I

D Section 1

• C7 – Fm – A♭7/E♭ – D♭ – A♭/E♭ – E♭7 – A♭
  III7 – vi – I⁴₃ – IV – I⁶₄ – V7 – I

A Section 2

Same chords as A Section 1.

B Section 2

Same chords as B Section 1.

C Section 2

Same chords as C Section 1.

D Section 2

Same chords as D Section 1.

A Section 3

Same chords as A Section 1.

B Section 3

Same chords as B Section 1.

C Section 3

Same chords as C Section 1.

D Section 3

Same chords as D Section 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭7 acts as V/V: it resolves to E♭.
• C7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Fm.
• A♭7/E♭ acts as V/IV: it resolves to D♭.

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.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.