Hallelujah I Love Her So (Bb major) - Jazz Analysis & Chords

Harmonic Highlights

• Employs a quintessential gospel-blues progression (I – I/3 – IV – #ivo7) where the Edim7 acts as a chromatic passing tone leading to the dominant F7.
• Features secondary dominants like D7 (V/vi) to tonicize Gm, creating a momentary shift from the bright Bb major tonality to its relative minor.
• Utilizes a “back-cycling” turnaround (Gm – Eb7 – C7 – F7) that blends diatonic function with dominant-seven colors to drive momentum back to the tonic.

Improvisation Focus The Bb Major Pentatonic scale with added “blue notes” (Db and Ab), effectively bridging gospel lyricism with traditional blues language.

Difficulty Rating 2/5: The progression follows predictable gospel patterns and stays largely within the key center, making it highly accessible for intermediate improvisers.