The Blue Room by Richard Rodgers

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 3

Form: A Section → B 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

• F6 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – Fmaj7 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – Cm7 – F7 – B♭maj7 – E♭9 – Dm7 – G7 – Gm7 – C7
  I6 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – v7 – I7 – IVmaj7 – bVII9 – vi7 – II7 – ii7 – V7

B Section

• Gm7 – C7 – F6 (×2)
  ii7 – V7 – I6
• B♭7 – Am7 – D7
  IV7 – iii7 – VI7
• Gm7 – C7 (×2)
  ii7 – V7

C Section

• Dm7 – G7 – Gm7 – C7 – F6 – Dm7 – Gm7 – C7 – Fmaj7 – Dm7 – G7 – C7 – Cm7 – F7 – B♭maj7 – E♭9
  vi7 – II7 – ii7 – V7 – I6 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – vi7 – II7 – V7 – v7 – I7 – IVmaj7 – bVII9
• F6 – Gm7 – C7 (×2)
  I6 – ii7 – V7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Cm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• E♭9 (bVII9) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• F7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to B♭maj7.
• G7 acts as V/V: it resolves to C7.
• D7 acts as V/ii: 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.