Clean by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: F Mixolydian · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 12

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). 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 (0:00)

• F – Fsus4 (×4)
  I – Isus4

Part 2 (0:15)

• F – B♭ (×3)
  I – IV
• D♭ – E♭
  bVI – bVII

Part 3 (0:31)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:15).

Part 4 (0:46)

• F – B♭ (×2)
  I – IV
• F – D♭ – E♭
  I – bVI – bVII

Part 5 (1:01)

• F – Fsus4 (×2)
  I – Isus4
• F – B♭ (×2)
  I – IV

Part 6 (1:16)

• F – B♭ – D♭ – E♭
  I – IV – bVI – bVII
• F – B♭ (×2)
  I – IV

Part 7 (1:32)

Same chords as Part 6 (1:16).

Part 8 (1:47)

• F – D♭ – E♭ (×3)
  I – bVI – bVII

Part 9 (2:03)

• F – D♭ – E♭ – B♭m/D♭ – Cm/E♭
  I – bVI – bVII – iv⁶ – v⁶
• F – B♭ (×2)
  I – IV

Part 10 (2:19)

• F – B♭ – D♭ – E♭
  I – IV – bVI – bVII
• G – C (×2)
  II – V

Part 11 (2:34)

• G – E♭ – F
  II – bVII – I
• G – C (×2)
  II – V

Part 12 (2:49)

• G – E♭ – F (×5)
  II – bVII – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Life Thru a Lens, 1997), 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 (Life Thru a Lens, 1997), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• 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.