Woman to Woman by Shirley Brown

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse → Verse

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.

Section by section

Intro

• E♭maj7 – Cm (×11)
  Imaj7 – vi
• B♭9sus4
  V9sus4

Verse 1

• E♭maj7 – A♭maj7 – E♭maj7 – Cm – B♭m – A♭ – E♭maj7 – A♭maj7 – E♭maj7 – B♭9sus4
  Imaj7 – IVmaj7 – Imaj7 – vi – v – IV – Imaj7 – IVmaj7 – Imaj7 – V9sus4

Verse 2

• E♭maj7 – A♭maj7 (×3)
  Imaj7 – IVmaj7
• E♭maj7 – B♭9sus4
  Imaj7 – V9sus4

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

• E♭maj7 – A♭maj7 – E♭maj7 – Cm – B♭m – A♭ (×2)
  Imaj7 – IVmaj7 – Imaj7 – vi – v – IV
• E♭maj7 – A♭maj7
  Imaj7 – IVmaj7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0400, 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.