Evening Falls by Enya

Overview

Key: E♭ minor · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 11

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)

• E♭5 – E♭m – B – D♭ – B♭m – B – A♭m
  I5 – i – #V – bVII – v – #V – iv

Part 2 (0:21)

• D♭ – B♭m – E♭m – B – D♭ – B♭m – B
  bVII – v – i – #V – bVII – v – #V

Part 3 (0:41)

• D♭ – B♭m – B – D♭ – E♭5
  bVII – v – #V – bVII – I5

Part 4 (1:01)

• B – D♭ – B♭m – B – A♭m – D♭ – B♭m – E♭m
  #V – bVII – v – #V – iv – bVII – v – i

Part 5 (1:22)

• B – D♭ – B♭m (×2)
  #V – bVII – v
• B
  #V

Part 6 (1:42)

• D♭ – E♭5 – G♭/B♭ – D♭/A♭ – G♭ – B – D♭ – G♭
  bVII – I5 – bIII⁶ – bVII⁶₄ – bIII – #V – bVII – bIII

Part 7 (2:03)

• B – D♭ – G♭ – B – D♭ – B♭m – B – D♭
  #V – bVII – bIII – #V – bVII – v – #V – bVII

Part 8 (2:24)

• G♭ – E♭m – B♭m – B – D♭sus4 – D♭ – G♭
  bIII – i – v – #V – bVIIsus4 – bVII – bIII

Part 9 (2:45)

• E♭m – B – D♭ – B♭m – B – A♭m – D♭ – B♭m
  i – #V – bVII – v – #V – iv – bVII – v

Part 10 (3:05)

• E♭m
  i
• B – D♭ – B♭m (×2)
  #V – bVII – v

Part 11 (3:25)

• B – D♭ – E♭5
  #V – bVII – I5

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

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