Eye in the Sky by The Alan Parsons Project

Overview

Key: B minor · Chords used: 12 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus ×2

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

• Bm – G (×2)
  i – bVI

Verse 1

• A/D – D – A/D – D – Bm9 (×2)
  bVII (bass D) – bIII – bVII (bass D) – bIII – i9
• G6 – Gm6 – Bm7 – E9 – D – Gmaj7 – D
  bVI6 – bvi6 – i7 – IV9 – bIII – bVImaj7 – bIII

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• A/D – D – A/D – D – F♯m (×2)
  bVII (bass D) – bIII – bVII (bass D) – bIII – v
• G6 – Gm6
  bVI6 – bvi6
• Bm7 – Gadd9 (×2)
  i7 – bVIadd9

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0956, 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.