Soon by George Gershwin

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 21 · Sections: 4

Form: A Section → B Section → A Section → C 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♭ – Cm7♭5 – Gm7♭5 – Caug7 – C7 – Fm – C7 – Fm7♭5 – B♭aug7 – B♭7
  I – viø7 – iiiø7 – VI+7 – VI7 – ii – VI7 – iiø7 – V+7 – V7

B Section

• E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭7 – Cm – E♭7♭5 – A♭6 – Fm – C7 – Fm – Dm7♭5 – G7 – Cm7 – Fm7 – B♭7
  I – V7 – I – I7 – vi – I7♭5 – IV6 – ii – VI7 – ii – viiø7 – III7 – vi7 – ii7 – V7

A Section 2

• E♭ – Cm7♭5 – Gm7♭5 – Caug7 – C7 – Fm – Caug7 – Fm7♭5 – B♭7♭5 – B♭7
  I – viø7 – iiiø7 – VI+7 – VI7 – ii – VI+7 – iiø7 – V7♭5 – V7

C Section

• E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭7 – E♭aug7 – A♭ – Fm7♭5 – E♭ – A♭6 – B♭7 – E♭
  I – V7 – I – I7 – I+7 – IV – iiø7 – I – IV6 – V7 – I
• B7 – B♭7 (×2)
  #V7 – V7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm7♭5 (iiø7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• B♭aug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• C7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Fm.
• G7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Cm7.

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.