Dirty Water by Rock And Hyde

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Instrumental → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Instrumental → Chorus

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

• D9sus4
  V9sus4

Instrumental 1

• G – Dm7 – C (×4)
  I – v7 – IV

Verse 1

• Em – E♭ (×4)
  vi – bVI

Chorus 1

• G – Dm7 – C (×4)
  I – v7 – IV

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Instrumental 2

• G – D11 – C (×4)
  I – V11 – IV

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Dm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• E♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0929, 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.