Chords & Changes

Watermelon Man

Watermelon Man — chords and changes, key facts, and listening notes.

Watermelon Man was composed by Herbie Hancock. It dates from 1962. It is in F minor, 16 bars long, and in 16-bar blues form.

Key facts

Composer	Herbie Hancock
Lyricist	Not listed
Year	1962
Source show / film	Not listed
Form	16-bar blues
Bars	16
Key	F minor

Fact sources: title — wikidata; composers — wikidata; year — wikidata; key — wikidata; wikipedia — wikidata; musicbrainz — wikidata; recordings — musicbrainz; changes — editorial analysis (cross-checked); form — editorial analysis (cross-checked); bars — editorial analysis (cross-checked).

Reference links: Wikidata Q1502987 · MusicBrainz work · Wikipedia.

Chart

Chord chart

Four bars per row · sections labelled

F minor Key

Section A

F7#9

Bb9

F7#9

Bb9

F7#9

Changes confidence: high. Source: Editorial harmonic analysis of commonly played changes, cross-checked against an independent second analysis. Chord symbols are an original simplified analysis for study, not a transcription.

Listen

Recordings (from MusicBrainz)

Willie Mitchell — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

1965
Los Dementes — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

1967
University of South Carolina Marching Band — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

1975
Mongo Santamaría — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

1998
Monk Higgins — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

2001
collectivecadenza — Album not listed
Source: musicbrainz

2014

Recording credits and years follow the entries in the dataset. Source: MusicBrainz.

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Watermelon Man

Chord chart

Section A

Recordings (from MusicBrainz)

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