Baby Won’t You Please Come Home Chords

Learn how to play Baby Won’t You Please Come Home!

Baby Won’t You Please Come Home is a Jazz/Blues written by Clarence Williams.

Sung by Bessie Smith, Nat King Cole & Ella Fitzgerald it has become a jazz standard.

The chord progression is classic Jazz/Blues territory with its I – VIx – IIm7 – V for the main part and two II – V – I variations over the M8/solo section.

Use modes and arpeggios to solo over this piece. New chord? -New scale!

As you learn Baby Won’t You Please Come Home, keep playing the progression, saying out loud the number of each chord as they pass by. When this is good, change the position you play in.

Keep this process up until you can play any of the chords all over the neck.

You will soon see how small fragments of the chord in an Am shape, makes a huge difference to the big open Em. Your aim should be to find little embellishments around these chords.

Soloing with numbers

As you have played the progression all over the neck, and thought of what number they all have, simply keep this in mind as you solo.

Should the chord be an Em7, then you think II.

If you are around fret 7, then you have the choice of Am or Cm shapes, min7 arpeggios, minor pentatonic scales and the Dorian mode would work here.

Great improvisers simply tie melodies together like this over chord progressions.

As usual: DIY, Chordacus and SWS are the tools at hand.
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