Eye of the Tiger by Survivor

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 15

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 (0:09)

• Cm
  i

Part 2 (0:11)

• Cm – A♭ – Cm
  i – bVI – i

Part 3 (0:20)

• Cm – Gm – A♭
  i – v – bVI
• Cm – B♭ (×2)
  i – bVII
• Cm – Gm – A♭
  i – v – bVI

Part 4 (0:35)

• Cm – B♭ – Cm – A♭ – Cm – Cmadd9 – A♭maj7
  i – bVII – i – bVI – i – iadd9 – bVImaj7

Part 5 (0:53)

• B♭13 – Cm – A♭maj7 – B♭13 – Cmadd9 – A♭add9
  bVII13 – i – bVImaj7 – bVII13 – iadd9 – bVIadd9

Part 6 (1:10)

• B♭ – Cm – A♭maj7 – B♭ – Cm – Fm – E♭/G – B♭7
  bVII – i – bVImaj7 – bVII – i – iv – bIII⁶ – bVII7

Part 7 (1:28)

• Fm – Cm7 – B♭7 – Fm – E♭/G – B♭7 – Fm – E♭ – A♭
  iv – i7 – bVII7 – iv – bIII⁶ – bVII7 – iv – bIII – bVI

Part 8 (1:45)

• Cmadd9 – A♭maj7 – B♭7 – Cm – A♭maj7 – B♭7 – Cm9
  iadd9 – bVImaj7 – bVII7 – i – bVImaj7 – bVII7 – i9

Part 9 (2:02)

• Fm – E♭
  iv – bIII
• B♭7 – Fm – Cm7 (×2)
  bVII7 – iv – i7
• B♭7 – Fm – E♭
  bVII7 – iv – bIII

Part 10 (2:19)

• A♭ – Cm9 – A♭maj7 – B♭7
  bVI – i9 – bVImaj7 – bVII7

Part 11 (2:36)

• Cmadd9 – A♭maj7 – B♭7 – Cmadd9 – Fm – E♭/G – B♭7 – Fm
  iadd9 – bVImaj7 – bVII7 – iadd9 – iv – bIII⁶ – bVII7 – iv

Part 12 (2:54)

• Cm7 – B♭7 – Fm – E♭/G – B♭7 – Fm – E♭ – A♭
  i7 – bVII7 – iv – bIII⁶ – bVII7 – iv – bIII – bVI

Part 13 (3:12)

• Cm – Gm – A♭ – Cm – A♭
  i – v – bVI – i – bVI

Part 14 (3:28)

• Cm – A♭ – Cm – B♭ – Cm
  i – bVI – i – bVII – i

Part 15 (3:44)

• Gm – A♭ – Cm – B♭ – Cm – A♭ – Cm
  v – bVI – i – bVII – i – bVI – i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

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