Come Undone by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: B major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 13

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)

• B – E
  I – IV

Part 2 (0:08)

• B – E (×2)
  I – IV

Part 3 (0:31)

• B
  I
• E – F♯ (×2)
  IV – V

Part 4 (0:54)

• E – B (×3)
  IV – I
• E – C♯m
  IV – ii

Part 5 (1:17)

• E – B (×3)
  IV – I
• E
  IV

Part 6 (1:40)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:31).

Part 7 (2:03)

Same chords as Part 4 (0:54).

Part 8 (2:26)

• E – B – A (×2)
  IV – I – bVII

Part 9 (2:48)

• E – F♯
  IV – V
• B – E (×2)
  I – IV
• B
  I

Part 10 (3:11)

• E – C♯m
  IV – ii
• E – B (×3)
  IV – I

Part 11 (3:34)

Same chords as Part 10 (3:11).

Part 12 (3:57)

• E – B (×4)
  IV – I

Part 13 (4:20)

• E – B (×3)
  IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Escapology, 2002), 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 (Escapology, 2002), 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.