Where Are You by Dinah Washington

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 27 · Sections: 4

Form: Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription 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.

Key changes

• Chorus 3 moves to E major.

Section by section

Chorus 1

• E♭maj7 – G♭dim – Fm7 – B♭9sus4 – E♭maj7 – F7 – Gm7 – Cm7 – Fm7 – Emaj7 – E♭maj7 – Fm7 – Emaj7
  Imaj7 – biii° – ii7 – V9sus4 – Imaj7 – II7 – iii7 – vi7 – ii7 – #Imaj7 – Imaj7 – ii7 – #Imaj7

Chorus 2

• E♭maj7 – G♭dim – Fm7 – B♭9sus4 – E♭maj7 – F7 – Gm7 – Cm7 – Fm7 – Emaj7 – E♭maj7 – B♭m7 – E♭7
  Imaj7 – biii° – ii7 – V9sus4 – Imaj7 – II7 – iii7 – vi7 – ii7 – #Imaj7 – Imaj7 – v7 – I7

Bridge

• A♭maj7 – G7sus4 – C7♭9 – Fm7 – B♭7♭9 – E♭7 – A♭maj7 – G7sus4 – G7 – Cm7 – F7 – Fm7 – B♭7 – F♯m7 – B7
  IVmaj7 – III7sus4 – VI7b9 – ii7 – V7b9 – I7 – IVmaj7 – III7sus4 – III7 – vi7 – II7 – ii7 – V7 – #ii7 – #V7

Chorus 3

• Emaj7 – Gdim – F♯m7 – B9sus4 – Emaj7 – F♯7 – F♯7/G – E/G♯ – F♯m11 – G♯m11 – F♯m7 – B7♭9 – Emaj9
  Imaj7 – biii° – ii7 – V9sus4 – Imaj7 – II7 – II7 (bass G) – I⁶ – ii11 – iii11 – ii7 – V7b9 – Imaj9

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• B♭7♭9 (V7b9) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• B7♭9 (V7b9) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭maj7.
• C7♭9 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Fm7.
• G7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Cm7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0722, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.