A Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon & Garfunkel

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Chorus → Chorus → Chorus

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription 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

Intro

• Dm – C7 – B♭7 – A7
  i – bVII7 – bVI7 – V7

Verse

• Dm – C – B♭ – F/C – C
  i – bVII – bVI – bIII⁶₄ – bVII

Chorus 1

• Dm – C7 – B♭7 – A7 – Dm – C – B♭ – Fmaj7 – C
  i – bVII7 – bVI7 – V7 – i – bVII – bVI – bIIImaj7 – bVII

Chorus 2

• Dm – C7 – B♭7 – A7 – Dm7 – Cadd9 – B♭add9 – Fmaj7 – C
  i – bVII7 – bVI7 – V7 – i7 – bVIIadd9 – bVIadd9 – bIIImaj7 – bVII

Chorus 3

• Dm – C7 – B♭7 – A7 – Dm – Gm – F – C – Dm – C – B♭ – Fmaj7 – C
  i – bVII7 – bVI7 – V7 – i – iv – bIII – bVII – i – bVII – bVI – bIIImaj7 – bVII

Chorus 4

• Dm – C7 – B♭7 – A7 (×4)
  i – bVII7 – bVI7 – V7

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1121, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.