Toot, Toot, Tootsie by Ted Fiorito

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 26 · Sections: 7

Form: A Section → B Section → C Section → D Section → C Section → E 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

• C/E – Cdim7 – G7/D – G – E7 – E7♭5 – A7 – Aaug7 – D9 – D7 – G7 – C – E♭dim – G7
  I⁶ – i°7 – V⁴₃ – V – III7 – III7♭5 – VI7 – VI+7 – II9 – II7 – V7 – I – biii° – V7

B Section

• C – Cdim7 – G7 – F/G – C7 – Fmaj7 – F – D7 – D9 – G7 – Gaug7
  I – i°7 – V7 – IV (bass G) – I7 – IVmaj7 – IV – II7 – II9 – V7 – V+7

C Section 1

• C – D7 – Am7 – D7 – G7 – C
  I – II7 – vi7 – II7 – V7 – I

D Section

• C6 – Cmaj7 – C♯dim – Dm7 – G7 – Dm7 – Gaug7 – C – E♭dim – Dm7 – Gaug7
  I6 – Imaj7 – #i° – ii7 – V7 – ii7 – V+7 – I – biii° – ii7 – V+7

C Section 2

• C – D7 – Am7 – D7 – G7 – C9
  I – II7 – vi7 – II7 – V7 – I9

E Section

• F7 – C – G7 – C – E♭dim7 – G7
  IV7 – I – V7 – I – biii°7 – V7

C Section 3

Same chords as C Section 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gaug7 (V+7) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• D9 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to Fmaj7.

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.