Catch My Fall by Billy Idol

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 15

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

• G – D – C – D
  I – V – IV – V

Verse 1

• G – D – C – D (×2)
  I – V – IV – V

Verse 2

• C – D (×2)
  IV – V

Pre-Chorus 1

• Em – A (×2)
  vi – II

Chorus 1

• C – D (×2)
  IV – V

Chorus 2

• G – D – C – D (×2)
  I – V – IV – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude 1

• C – D (×2)
  IV – V

Interlude 2

Same chords as Interlude 1.

Pre-Chorus 3

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Outro 1

• C – D (×3)
  IV – V

Outro 2

• G – D – C – D (×4)
  I – V – IV – V

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0794, 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.