All Through the Night by Cyndi Lauper

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Solo → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Chorus → Outro

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

• A♭
  I

Verse 1

• A♭ – E♭ (×2)
  I – V
• A♭
  I

Pre-Chorus 1

• Fm – Cm – D♭ – B♭m
  vi – iii – IV – ii

Chorus 1

• A♭ – Fm – D♭ – B♭m – E♭sus4 (×2)
  I – vi – IV – ii – Vsus4
• A♭ – Fm – Cm
  I – vi – iii

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• A♭ – E♭ (×2)
  I – V
• A♭
  I

Pre-Chorus 3

• Fm – Cm – D♭ – B♭m – E♭
  vi – iii – IV – ii – V

Chorus 3

• A♭ – Fm – D♭ – B♭m – E♭sus4 (×2)
  I – vi – IV – ii – Vsus4

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• A♭ – Fm – D♭ – B♭m – E♭sus4 (×5)
  I – vi – IV – ii – Vsus4
• A♭ – Fm
  I – vi

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0309, 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.