Drive by Incubus

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 18

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)

• Em – Em9 – Cmaj7 – A7 – Em
  i – i9 – bVImaj7 – IV7 – i

Part 2 (0:07)

• Em9 – Cmaj7 – A7 – Em (×2)
  i9 – bVImaj7 – IV7 – i
• Em9 – Cmaj7 – A7
  i9 – bVImaj7 – IV7

Part 3 (0:21)

• Em – Em9 – Cmaj7 – A7 (×2)
  i – i9 – bVImaj7 – IV7
• Em – Em9 – Cmaj7
  i – i9 – bVImaj7

Part 4 (0:35)

• A7 – Em – Em9
  IV7 – i – i9
• Cmaj7 – A7 (×2)
  bVImaj7 – IV7
• Cmaj7
  bVImaj7

Part 5 (0:48)

• A7 – Cmaj7 (×2)
  IV7 – bVImaj7

Part 6 (1:00)

• A7 – Em – Em9 – Cmaj7 (×2)
  IV7 – i – i9 – bVImaj7
• A7
  IV7

Part 7 (1:14)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:21).

Part 8 (1:28)

• A7 – Em – Em9 – Cmaj7 (×2)
  IV7 – i – i9 – bVImaj7
• A7 – Em
  IV7 – i

Part 9 (1:42)

• Em9
  i9
• Cmaj7 – A7 (×3)
  bVImaj7 – IV7

Part 10 (1:55)

• Cmaj7 – A7 (×2)
  bVImaj7 – IV7

Part 11 (2:07)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:21).

Part 12 (2:21)

Same chords as Part 8 (1:28).

Part 13 (2:35)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:07).

Part 14 (2:49)

Same chords as Part 10 (1:55).

Part 15 (3:02)

• Em – Em9 – Cmaj7 – A7 (×2)
  i – i9 – bVImaj7 – IV7
• Em – Em9
  i – i9

Part 16 (3:16)

• Cmaj7 – A7 – Em – Em9 (×2)
  bVImaj7 – IV7 – i – i9
• Cmaj7 – A7 – Em
  bVImaj7 – IV7 – i

Part 17 (3:30)

• Em9 – Cmaj7 – A7 – Em (×2)
  i9 – bVImaj7 – IV7 – i
• Em9 – Cmaj7
  i9 – bVImaj7

Part 18 (3:44)

• A7 – Cmaj7 – A7
  IV7 – bVImaj7 – IV7

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

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