You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me by Pierre Norman, Irving Kahal & Sammy Fain

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 20 · Sections: 5

Form: Lead-in → A Section → A Section → Bridge → A 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

Lead-in

• E♭7
  V7

A Section 1

• B♭m7 – E♭7 – A♭ – A♭7 – G7 – G♭7 – B♭7 – E♭maj7(no3) – E♭7 – A♭ – E♭maj7(no3) – E♭7
  ii7 – V7 – I – I7 – VII7 – bVII7 – II7 – Vmaj7(no3) – V7 – I – Vmaj7(no3) – V7

A Section 2

• B♭m7 – E♭7 – A♭ – A♭7 – G7 – G♭7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭maj7(no3) – E♭7 – A♭ – D♭m – A♭
  ii7 – V7 – I – I7 – VII7 – bVII7 – VI7 – II7 – Vmaj7(no3) – V7 – I – iv – I

Bridge

• Fm – C/E – A♭7/E♭ – B♭7/D – D♭7 – C7 – Fm – E♭ – B♭aug – Fdim – B♭7 – E♭7
  vi – III⁶ – I⁴₃ – II⁶₅ – IV7 – III7 – vi – V – II+ – vi° – II7 – V7

A Section 3

• B♭m7 – E♭7 – A♭ – A♭7 – G7 – G♭7 – F7 – B♭7 – E♭maj7(no3) – E♭7 – A♭ – Adim – E♭7 – A♭
  ii7 – V7 – I – I7 – VII7 – bVII7 – VI7 – II7 – Vmaj7(no3) – V7 – I – #i° – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♭7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, A♭ minor.
• D♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, A♭ minor.
• B♭7 acts as V/V: it resolves to E♭7.
• C7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Fm.

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.
• 4 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.