Doctor Jones by Aqua

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 14

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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 (0:03)

• E♭/G – B♭/F – A♭/E♭ – B♭/F – E♭/G – B♭/F – Cm/G – A♭ – E♭/G – B♭/F – A♭/E♭ – B♭/F – E♭/G
  I⁶ – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I⁶ – V⁶₄ – vi⁶₄ – IV – I⁶ – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I⁶

Part 2 (0:16)

• B♭/F – Cm/G – A♭ – E♭/G – B♭/F – A♭/E♭ – B♭/F – E♭/G – B♭/F – Cm/G
  V⁶₄ – vi⁶₄ – IV – I⁶ – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I⁶ – V⁶₄ – vi⁶₄
• A♭ – E♭/G (×2)
  IV – I⁶

Part 3 (0:30)

• A♭ – E♭ – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – Cm – A♭ – E♭ – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭
  IV – I – V – IV – V – I – V – vi – IV – I – V – IV – V – I

Part 4 (0:44)

• B♭
  V
• Cm – A♭ (×2)
  vi – IV
• B♭ – A♭ – Cm – B♭ – Cm – A♭ – B♭ – A♭
  V – IV – vi – V – vi – IV – V – IV

Part 5 (0:57)

• Cm – B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – Cm – A♭ – E♭ – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭
  vi – V – I – V – IV – V – I – V – vi – IV – I – V – IV – V – I

Part 6 (1:11)

• B♭
  V
• Cm – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ (×2)
  vi – IV – V – I
• A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – Cm – A♭
  IV – V – I – vi – IV

Part 7 (1:25)

• B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – Cm – A♭ – E♭ – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭
  V – I – V – IV – V – I – V – vi – IV – I – V – IV – V – I

Part 8 (1:38)

Same chords as Part 4 (0:44).

Part 9 (1:52)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:57).

Part 10 (2:06)

Same chords as Part 6 (1:11).

Part 11 (2:20)

• B♭ – E♭ – E♭/G – B♭/F – A♭/E♭ – B♭/F – E♭/G – B♭/F – Cm/G – A♭ – E♭/G – B♭/F – A♭/E♭ – B♭/F – E♭/G
  V – I – I⁶ – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I⁶ – V⁶₄ – vi⁶₄ – IV – I⁶ – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I⁶

Part 12 (2:33)

• B♭/F – Cm/G – A♭ – E♭5
  V⁶₄ – vi⁶₄ – IV – I5

Part 13 (2:47)

• A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – Cm
  IV – V – I – vi
• A♭ – B♭ – E♭ (×2)
  IV – V – I
• Cm – A♭
  vi – IV

Part 14 (3:01)

• B♭
  V
• E♭ – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – Cm – A♭ (×2)
  I – V – IV – V – I – V – vi – IV
• E♭
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• The Part 6 (1:11) loops Cm – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ (vi – IV – V – I), a rotation of the ’50s progression (I–vi–IV–V family).

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Aquarium), 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 (Aquarium), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.