Standards

There'll Be Some Changes Made chords & key

Key: B♭ major
Form: AB
Bars: 18
Groove: Medium swing
Time signature: 4/4

“There'll Be Some Changes Made” is a jazz standard by Benton Overstreet. Most bands play it in B♭ major, medium swing; the tune runs 18 bars in AB form. In this atlas it appears on 22 album tracks.

Chord changes

to key

Showing in: Concert (C) — B♭ major

G⁷

C⁷

D⁷

G⁷

C⁷

C⁷F⁷

G⁷

C⁷

D⁷

G⁷

C⁷F⁷

B♭⁶G⁷

C⁷F⁷

B♭⁶A⁷A♭⁷

Changes as commonly played (concert pitch). Your band's version may differ.

Harmonic analysis

0Major ii–V–I

0Minor ii–V–i

0ii–V moves

0Tritone substitutions

10Dominant chains

7Different chords

Most used chords

C⁷×8
G⁷×7
F⁷×3
D⁷×2
B♭⁶×2
A⁷×1

History

"There'll Be Some Changes Made" ("Changes") is a popular song by Benton Overstreet (composer) and Billy Higgins (lyricist). Published in 1921, the song has flourished in several genres, particularly jazz. The song has endured for as many years as a jazz standard. According to the online The Jazz Discography (an index of jazz-only recordings), "Changes" had been recorded 404 times as of May 2018. The song and its record debut were revolutionary, in that the songwriters (Overstreet and Higgins, the original copyright publisher, Harry Herbert Pace, the vocalist to first record it (Ethel Waters), the owners of Black Swan (the record label), the opera singer (Elizabeth Greenfield) for whom the label was named, and the musicians on the recording led by Fletcher Henderson, were all African American. The production is identified by historians as a notable part of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Recorded on these albums

1957	Chicago / Austin High School Jazz in Hifi Bud Freeman
1959	Last Recording Billie Holiday with Ray Ellis and His Orchestra · “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
1961	Whatever Julie Wants Julie London
1964	In the Name of Love Peggy Lee · “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
1965	Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano Ran Blake · “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
1968	Jazz Classic Volume 2 Sidney Bechet with Bunk Johnson & Sidney De Paris
1973	God Is in the House: Original 1940-41 Recordings Art Tatum
1974	Me and My Shadow Ted Lewis
1975	Life Is Beautiful Tony Bennett · “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
1981	Hollywood Palladium 1948 Woody Herman
1986	Living Room Mark Murphy · “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
1990	Neck and Neck Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler · “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
1993	The Queen, Vol.5: Something to Remember Her By Maxine Sullivan
1998	Earl Hines in New Orleans Earl Hines with Wallace Davenport & Orange Kellin · “There'll Be Some Changes Made (Donaldson, Overstreet)”
2002	In Concert At The Bottom Line June 22, 1992 Chet Atkins & Jerry Reed
2002	Jam Session Coast to Coast / Jammin' at Condon's Eddie Condon
2003	Earl 'Fatha' Hines Earl Hines
2004	Am I Blue: 1921-1947 Ethel Waters
2012	Live at Montreux 2004 Phil Collins · “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
2012	Four Classic Albums (Stretching Out / Starring Zoot Sims / Down Home / The Jazz Soul of Porgy and Bess) Zoot Sims · “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”
2020	Bobby Hackett Sextet & Quintet Bobby Hackett
—	Empirical Jaki Byard

Standards with similar changes

Similarity of the chord progression, independent of key.

Title	Composer	Key	Form	Groove
In A Mellow Tone (In A Mellotone) 29%	Duke Ellington	A♭ major	ABAC · 32	Medium swing
If You Ever Should Leave 24%	Cahn-Chaplin	C major	A · 24	Medium swing
Let's Cool One 22%	Thelonious Monk	E♭ major	AABA · 32	Medium swing
Rose Room 22%	Art Hickman	A♭ major	ABAC · 32	Medium swing
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home 21%	Warfield-Williams	G major	AA · 34	Medium slow
Lulu's Back In Town 21%	Harry Warren	E♭ major	AABA · 32	Medium-up swing
Seven Come Eleven 21%	Goodman-Christian	A♭ major	AABA · 32	Medium-up swing
Sentimental Journey 20%	Brown-Green-Homer	C major	AABA · 32	Medium swing

Frequently asked questions

What key is There'll Be Some Changes Made in?

There'll Be Some Changes Made is usually played in B♭ major. For B♭ instruments that is C major, for E♭ instruments G major.

Who wrote There'll Be Some Changes Made?

There'll Be Some Changes Made was written by Benton Overstreet.

What is the form of There'll Be Some Changes Made?

There'll Be Some Changes Made has 2 sections (AB) with 18 bars in total.

How fast is There'll Be Some Changes Made played?

The usual groove is Medium swing.

What are the chord changes to There'll Be Some Changes Made?

The opening bars are G7 | G7 | C7 | C7. The full chart above can be transposed to any key.