Best of My Love by Eagles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 7

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

• Cmaj7 – C – Cmaj7 – C – G9 – G9sus4 – G9 – G9sus4 (×2)
  Imaj7 – I – Imaj7 – I – V9 – V9sus4 – V9 – V9sus4

Verse 1

• Cmaj7 – C – Cmaj7 – C – Dm6 – Dm7 – Dm6 – Dm7 (×2)
  Imaj7 – I – Imaj7 – I – ii6 – ii7 – ii6 – ii7
• Cmaj7 – C (×2)
  Imaj7 – I
• Dm6
  ii6
• Dm7 – Em7 (×2)
  ii7 – iii7
• G9sus4
  V9sus4

Verse 2

• Cmaj7 – C (×2)
  Imaj7 – I
• Dm6 – Dm7 (×2)
  ii6 – ii7
• Cmaj7 – C (×2)
  Imaj7 – I
• Dm6
  ii6
• Dm7 – Em7 (×2)
  ii7 – iii7
• Dm7 – G7 – Cmaj7 – C – Dm6 – Dm7 – Cmaj7 – C – G – F – Em – D7sus4
  ii7 – V7 – Imaj7 – I – ii6 – ii7 – Imaj7 – I – V – IV – iii – II7sus4

Chorus 1

• C – F (×2)
  I – IV
• Fm6 – C – Fm6 – Dm7 – G7
  iv6 – I – iv6 – ii7 – V7

Verse 3

• Cmaj7 – C – Cmaj7 – C – Dm6 – Dm7 – Dm6 – Dm7 (×2)
  Imaj7 – I – Imaj7 – I – ii6 – ii7 – ii6 – ii7
• Em7 – Dm7 (×2)
  iii7 – ii7
• G7 – Cmaj7 – C – Dm6 – Dm7 – Cmaj7 – C – G – F – Em – D7sus4
  V7 – Imaj7 – I – ii6 – ii7 – Imaj7 – I – V – IV – iii – II7sus4

Chorus 2

• C – F (×4)
  I – IV

Chorus 3

• C – F (×3)
  I – IV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1061, 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.