Don't Push by Sublime

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 10

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 (0:00)

• Am
  i

Part 2 (0:10)

• A – D6 – A – E – F – Fmaj7/E – A – D – F – A
  I – IV6 – I – V – bVI – bVImaj⁴₂ – I – IV – bVI – I

Part 3 (0:28)

• Am – Dm – Am – E – F – E – Am – C – F – B
  i – iv – i – V – bVI – V – i – bIII – bVI – II

Part 4 (0:44)

• A – D – A – E – F – Fmaj7/E – A – D – F – Fmaj7/E
  I – IV – I – V – bVI – bVImaj⁴₂ – I – IV – bVI – bVImaj⁴₂

Part 5 (1:01)

• A – Am – Dm – Am – E – F – Fmaj7/E – Am – C – F
  I – i – iv – i – V – bVI – bVImaj⁴₂ – i – bIII – bVI

Part 6 (1:18)

• B – A – D6 – A
  II – I – IV6 – I

Part 7 (1:47)

• E – F – A – D – F – A
  V – bVI – I – IV – bVI – I
• C – G (×3)
  bIII – bVII
• C
  bIII

Part 8 (2:07)

• G – C (×8)
  bVII – bIII

Part 9 (2:37)

• G – C (×7)
  bVII – bIII
• G
  bVII

Part 10 (2:57)

• C – G (×9)
  bIII – bVII

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.
• D6 (IV6) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.
• D (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (40oz To Freedom), 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 (40oz To Freedom), 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.