More Than You Know by Vincent Youmans

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 25 · Sections: 8

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → B Section → A Section → B Section → C Section → B 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♭6 – B♭aug7 – B♭m7 – E♭7 – A♭6 – Gm7♭5 – C7 – Fm7 – Fm7♭5 – B♭7 – F7 – Fm9 – B♭7 – Gm7 – C7
  I6 – V+7 – v7 – I7 – IV6 – iiiø7 – VI7 – ii7 – iiø7 – V7 – II7 – ii9 – V7 – iii7 – VI7

B Section 1

• Fm7 – B♭aug7 – E♭6 – B♭aug7 – B♭m7 – E♭7 – A♭6 – Gm7♭5 – C7 – Fm7 – D♭9 – Gm7 – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭
  ii7 – V+7 – I6 – V+7 – v7 – I7 – IV6 – iiiø7 – VI7 – ii7 – bVII9 – iii7 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

C Section 1

• Am7♭5 – D7 – Gm7 – Am7♭5 – A♭7♭5 – Gm – Cm7♭5 – F7 – B♭ – Gm7 – C7 – Cm7/F – F7 – B♭7 – B♭dim7
  #ivø7 – VII7 – iii7 – #ivø7 – IV7♭5 – iii – viø7 – II7 – V – iii7 – VI7 – vi7 (bass F) – II7 – V7 – v°7

B Section 2

• B♭7 – B♭aug7 – E♭6 – B♭aug7 – B♭m7 – E♭7 – A♭6 – Gm7♭5 – C7 – Fm7 – D♭9 – Gm7 – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭ – G♭dim7
  V7 – V+7 – I6 – V+7 – v7 – I7 – IV6 – iiiø7 – VI7 – ii7 – bVII9 – iii7 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – biii°7

A Section 2

• Fm7 – B♭aug7 – E♭6 – B♭aug7 – B♭m7 – E♭7 – A♭6 – Gm7♭5 – C7 – Fm7 – Fm7♭5 – B♭7 – F7 – Fm9 – B♭7 – Gm7 – C7
  ii7 – V+7 – I6 – V+7 – v7 – I7 – IV6 – iiiø7 – VI7 – ii7 – iiø7 – V7 – II7 – ii9 – V7 – iii7 – VI7

B Section 3

Same chords as B Section 1.

C Section 2

Same chords as C Section 1.

B Section 4

• B♭7 – B♭aug7 – E♭6 – B♭aug7 – B♭m7 – E♭7 – A♭6 – Gm7♭5 – C7 – Fm7 – D♭9 – Gm7 – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭ – C♭ – E♭
  V7 – V+7 – I6 – V+7 – v7 – I7 – IV6 – iiiø7 – VI7 – ii7 – bVII9 – iii7 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – bVI – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭aug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• B♭m7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• Fm7♭5 (iiø7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• D♭9 (bVII9) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• C♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭6.
• C7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Fm7.
• F7 acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭7.
• D7 acts as V/iii: it resolves to Gm7.

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.