(Everything I Do) I Do It for You by Bryan Adams

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 27

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)

• D♭ – A♭add11/D♭ – G♭/D♭ – A♭add11/D♭
  I – Vadd11 (bass D♭) – IV⁶₄ – Vadd11 (bass D♭)

Part 2 (0:14)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 3 (0:29)

• D♭ – A♭add11/D♭ – G♭/D♭ – G♭ – D♭/F – A♭
  I – Vadd11 (bass D♭) – IV⁶₄ – IV – I⁶ – V

Part 4 (0:44)

• E♭m – D♭/F – E♭m/G♭ – D♭/F – E♭m – D♭/F – E♭m/G♭
  ii – I⁶ – ii⁶ – I⁶ – ii – I⁶ – ii⁶

Part 5 (0:58)

• D♭/F – A♭7 – D♭
  I⁶ – V7 – I

Part 6 (1:13)

• A♭add11/D♭ – G♭ – A♭7
  Vadd11 (bass D♭) – IV – V7

Part 7 (1:27)

• D♭ – A♭add11/D♭ – G♭ – A♭sus4 – A♭
  I – Vadd11 (bass D♭) – IV – Vsus4 – V

Part 8 (1:42)

• E♭m – D♭ (×2)
  ii – I
• E♭m
  ii

Part 9 (1:57)

• D♭ – A♭ – D♭
  I – V – I

Part 10 (2:11)

• B – E – B – F♯
  #VI – #II – #VI – #III

Part 11 (2:26)

• D♭ – A♭ – E♭ – A♭
  I – V – II – V

Part 12 (2:41)

• G♭ – A♭
  IV – V

Part 13 (2:55)

Same chords as Part 12 (2:41).

Part 14 (3:10)

• E♭m – A♭ – E♭m
  ii – V – ii

Part 15 (3:24)

• A♭ – D♭ – A♭ – G♭
  V – I – V – IV

Part 16 (3:39)

• G♭m – D♭/A♭ – A♭6 – A♭
  iv – I⁶₄ – V6 – V

Part 17 (3:54)

• G♭ – E♭m – D♭ – G♭
  IV – ii – I – IV

Part 18 (4:08)

• D♭ – G♭
  I – IV

Part 19 (4:23)

Same chords as Part 18 (4:08).

Part 20 (4:38)

Same chords as Part 18 (4:08).

Part 21 (4:52)

Same chords as Part 18 (4:08).

Part 22 (5:07)

Same chords as Part 18 (4:08).

Part 23 (5:21)

Same chords as Part 18 (4:08).

Part 24 (5:36)

Same chords as Part 18 (4:08).

Part 25 (5:51)

Same chords as Part 18 (4:08).

Part 26 (6:05)

Same chords as Part 18 (4:08).

Part 27 (6:20)

• D♭
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B (#VI) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• E (#II) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• G♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• E♭ acts as V/V: it resolves to A♭.

Sources & accuracy

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