School Days by Gus Edwards

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 16

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → E Section → F Section → G Section → H Section → A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → E Section → F Section → G Section → H 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

• B♭ – B♭aug
  I – I+
• Cm7 – F7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7
• Faug – B♭ – Fdim – F7
  V+ – I – v° – V7

B Section 1

• Gm7 – Fdim – Cm7 – F7 – B♭
  vi7 – v° – ii7 – V7 – I

C Section 1

• B♭aug – Cm7 – F7 – Cm7 – A7 – B♭
  I+ – ii7 – V7 – ii7 – VII7 – I

D Section 1

• C7 – F (×3)
  II7 – V
• Faug
  V+

E Section 1

• B♭ – B♭dim – Cm7 – F7
  I – i° – ii7 – V7

F Section 1

• Gm7
  vi7

G Section 1

• B♭ – G7 – C7 – F7 – B♭ – B♭dim
  I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – i°

H Section 1

• E♭ – A7 – Adim – B♭ – D – B♭ – C7 – F7 – B♭
  IV – VII7 – vii° – I – III – I – II7 – 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.

E Section 2

Same chords as E Section 1.

F Section 2

Same chords as F Section 1.

G Section 2

Same chords as G Section 1.

H Section 2

Same chords as H Section 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Faug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• C7 acts as V/V: it resolves to F.

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.