Creepin' by Stevie Wonder

Overview

Key: G♭ major · Chords used: 18 · Sections: 4

Form: Intro → A Section → A Section → B Section

Where these chords come from: a chord chart of this song written by a musician and shared on the iReal Pro forums, archived in the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). It's one musician's reading of the song, not a transcription checked against the recording. This page shows that chart 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

• Bsus4/G♭ – G♭sus4 (×3)
  #IIIsus4 (bass G♭) – Isus4
• Bsus4/G♭ – B♭/F
  #IIIsus4 (bass G♭) – III⁶₄

A Section 1

• E♭m7 – Bmaj7 – G♭ – D♭ – A♭m – D13 – D♭m7 – Bsus4/G♭ – G♭sus4 – Bsus4/G♭ – B♭
  vi7 – #IIImaj7 – I – V – ii – #V13 – v7 – #IIIsus4 (bass G♭) – Isus4 – #IIIsus4 (bass G♭) – III

A Section 2

Same chords as A Section 1.

B Section

• B♭maj7 – E♭maj7 – E♭m6 – B♭/D (×2)
  IIImaj7 – VImaj7 – vi6 – III⁶
• Fm7 – B♭m7 – E/E♭
  vii7 – iii7 – #VI (bass E♭)
• Bsus4/G♭ – G♭sus4 (×4)
  #IIIsus4 (bass G♭) – Isus4

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
Bsus4/G♭	#IIIsus4 (bass G♭)	Borrowed from G♭ minor	Intro, A Section, B Section
G♭sus4	Isus4	Home chord (tonic)	Intro, A Section, B Section
B♭/F	III⁶₄	Outside the key (chromatic)	Intro
E♭m7	vi7	In the key	A Section
Bmaj7	#IIImaj7	In the key	A Section
G♭	I	Home chord (tonic)	A Section
D♭	V	In the key	A Section
A♭m	ii	In the key	A Section
D13	#V13	Outside the key (chromatic)	A Section
D♭m7	v7	Borrowed from G♭ minor	A Section
B♭	III	Outside the key (chromatic)	A Section
B♭maj7	IIImaj7	Outside the key (chromatic)	B Section
E♭maj7	VImaj7	Outside the key (chromatic)	B Section
E♭m6	vi6	Outside the key (chromatic)	B Section
B♭/D	III⁶	Outside the key (chromatic)	B Section
Fm7	vii7	Outside the key (chromatic)	B Section
B♭m7	iii7	In the key	B Section
E/E♭	#VI (bass E♭)	Outside the key (chromatic)	B Section

Harmonic highlights

• Bsus4/G♭ (#IIIsus4 (bass G♭)) is borrowed from the parallel key, G♭ minor.
• D♭m7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “Creepin'” (credited “Wonder Stevie”, style Pop Ballad) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Artist as credited on the chart.
• Section names: from the chart's own markings: section names written on the chart (Intro, Verse, Chorus…) are kept, and rehearsal letters are shown as “A Section”, “B Section” and so on (the B of an AABA song is called the Bridge).
• Cross-check: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “Creepin'” (credited “Wonder Stevie”, style Pop Ballad) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Artist as credited on the chart. A separately posted chart of the same song; its chords match this page's closely when both are read in the same key (similarity 76%).
• Chord charts are often written in a key that suits a particular singer or band, so this may not be the key of the original recording.
• Verified: two community charts of this song, posted in different forum threads, agree on its harmony. They're still charts, not transcriptions checked against the recording.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.