Don't You Know What the Night Can Do by Steve Winwood

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 16 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Interlude → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Interlude → Outro

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

• Am7 – G/A – Am7 – G/A – Fmaj9 – G/F – Fmaj9 – Gadd9 (×2)
  i7 – bVII (bass A) – i7 – bVII (bass A) – bVImaj9 – bVII (bass F) – bVImaj9 – bVIIadd9

Verse 1

• C – F – Fadd9
  bIII – bVI – bVIadd9
• C – F (×2)
  bIII – bVI
• Fadd9
  bVIadd9
• C/G – G (×2)
  bIII⁶₄ – bVII
• C – F – Fadd9 – C – G – Fadd9 – C – F – C/G – G
  bIII – bVI – bVIadd9 – bIII – bVII – bVIadd9 – bIII – bVI – bIII⁶₄ – bVII

Pre-Chorus 1

• Am – C – Am – F – Gsus4 (×2)
  i – bIII – i – bVI – bVIIsus4
• G – C/G – G7
  bVII – bIII⁶₄ – bVII7

Chorus 1

• C – G – F/G (×2)
  bIII – bVII – bVI (bass G)
• C – G
  bIII – bVII

Verse 2

• C – F – Fadd9
  bIII – bVI – bVIadd9
• C – F (×2)
  bIII – bVI
• C/G – G (×2)
  bIII⁶₄ – bVII
• C – F – Fadd9 – C – G – Fadd9 – C – F – C/G – G
  bIII – bVI – bVIadd9 – bIII – bVII – bVIadd9 – bIII – bVI – bIII⁶₄ – bVII

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

• C – G – F/G (×4)
  bIII – bVII – bVI (bass G)
• G
  bVII

Interlude 1

• Am7 – G/A – Am7 – G/A – Fmaj9 – G/F – Fmaj9 – Gadd9 (×2)
  i7 – bVII (bass A) – i7 – bVII (bass A) – bVImaj9 – bVII (bass F) – bVImaj9 – bVIIadd9
• C – F/C – C – F/C – C – G – C/G – G – C/G – G (×2)
  bIII – bVI⁶₄ – bIII – bVI⁶₄ – bIII – bVII – bIII⁶₄ – bVII – bIII⁶₄ – bVII

Pre-Chorus 3

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Interlude 2

• Am7 – G/A – Am7 – G/A – Fmaj9 – G/F – Fmaj9 – Gadd9 (×2)
  i7 – bVII (bass A) – i7 – bVII (bass A) – bVImaj9 – bVII (bass F) – bVImaj9 – bVIIadd9
• C – F/C – C – F/C – C – G – C/G – G – C/G – G (×2)
  bIII – bVI⁶₄ – bIII – bVI⁶₄ – bIII – bVII – bIII⁶₄ – bVII – bIII⁶₄ – bVII
• C – F/C (×4)
  bIII – bVI⁶₄
• C
  bIII
• G – C/G (×2)
  bVII – bIII⁶₄
• G
  bVII
• C – F/C (×2)
  bIII – bVI⁶₄
• C
  bIII
• G – C/G (×2)
  bVII – bIII⁶₄
• Em7
  v7

Outro

• Am – G/A (×4)
  i – bVII (bass A)
• Am
  i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0889, 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.