Bye Bye Bye by *NSYNC

Overview

Key: G♯ minor · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 18

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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

Part 1 (0:03)

• F♯5 – E – G♯m
  bVII5 – bVI – i

Part 2 (0:12)

• G♯m
  i

Part 3 (0:24)

• C♯5 – D♯5 – E5 – F♯5 – G♯m
  IV5 – V5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – i

Part 4 (0:35)

• C♯5 – D♯5 – E5 – F♯5 – E
  IV5 – V5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – bVI

Part 5 (0:46)

• F♯ – E – D♯7 – G♯m
  bVII – bVI – V7 – i

Part 6 (0:57)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:46).

Part 7 (1:08)

• F♯ – E – D♯7 – E5 – F♯5 – G♯5
  bVII – bVI – V7 – bVI5 – bVII5 – I5

Part 8 (1:19)

• C♯5 – D♯5
  IV5 – V5

Part 9 (1:30)

• F♯5 – G♯m – C♯5 – D♯5
  bVII5 – i – IV5 – V5

Part 10 (1:42)

• E5 – F♯5 – E – F♯ – E – D♯7
  bVI5 – bVII5 – bVI – bVII – bVI – V7

Part 11 (1:53)

• G♯m – F♯ – E – D♯7
  i – bVII – bVI – V7

Part 12 (2:04)

Same chords as Part 11 (1:53).

Part 13 (2:15)

• E5 – F♯5 – G♯m
  bVI5 – bVII5 – i

Part 14 (2:26)

• F♯ – E
  bVII – bVI

Part 15 (2:37)

• D♯7 – G♯m – F♯ – E
  V7 – i – bVII – bVI

Part 16 (2:48)

Same chords as Part 15 (2:37).

Part 17 (2:59)

Same chords as Part 15 (2:37).

Part 18 (3:11)

• D♯7 – E5 – F♯5 – G♯m
  V7 – bVI5 – bVII5 – i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (No Strings Attached), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (No Strings Attached), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.