Tin Roof Blues by Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo, George Brunies, Ben Pollack & Mel Stitzel

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 4

Form: Lead-in → Blues Chorus → Blues Chorus → Blues Chorus

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

Lead-in

• E♭ – E♭7
  I – I7

Blues Chorus 1

• E♭ – E♭7 – A♭
  I – I7 – IV
• A♭7 – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ (×2)
  IV7 – I – V7 – I

Blues Chorus 2

• E♭7 – A♭ – A♭7 – E♭ – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭ – A♭7 – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭
  I7 – IV – IV7 – I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – IV7 – I – V7 – I

Blues Chorus 3

• E♭7 – A♭ – A♭7 – E♭ – C7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭ – A♭7 – E♭
  I7 – IV – IV7 – I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I – IV7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭.
• F7 acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭7.

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.