Falling in Love by Aerosmith

Overview

Key: G minor · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 16

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 (0:07)

• D5 – Cm/E♭ – Csus2
  V5 – iv⁶ – IVsus2

Part 2 (0:10)

• D5 – Gm/B♭ – Csus2 (×2)
  V5 – i⁶ – IVsus2
• D5
  V5

Part 3 (0:20)

• Gm/B♭ – Csus2 – G5 – C5 – B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 – E♭5 – B♭5 – G5
  i⁶ – IVsus2 – I5 – IV5 – bIII5 – bVI5 – IV5 – bVI5 – bIII5 – I5

Part 4 (0:35)

• C5 – B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 – E♭5 – B♭5 – G5 – D5 – Gm/B♭
  IV5 – bIII5 – bVI5 – IV5 – bVI5 – bIII5 – I5 – V5 – i⁶

Part 5 (0:48)

• Csus2 – D5 – Gm/B♭ (×2)
  IVsus2 – V5 – i⁶
• Csus2
  IVsus2

Part 6 (0:57)

• D5 – Gm/B♭ – Csus2 – G5 – C5 – B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 – E♭5
  V5 – i⁶ – IVsus2 – I5 – IV5 – bIII5 – bVI5 – IV5 – bVI5

Part 7 (1:12)

• B♭5 – G5 – C5 – B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 – E♭5 – D5 – Gm/B♭
  bIII5 – I5 – IV5 – bIII5 – bVI5 – IV5 – bVI5 – V5 – i⁶

Part 8 (1:25)

• Csus2 – D5 – Gm/B♭ (×2)
  IVsus2 – V5 – i⁶
• Csus2 – D5
  IVsus2 – V5

Part 9 (1:36)

• Gm/B♭ – Csus2 – G5 – C5
  i⁶ – IVsus2 – I5 – IV5

Part 10 (1:51)

• B5 – B♭5 – A5
  III5 – bIII5 – II5

Part 11 (2:01)

• D5 – Gm/B♭ – Csus2 (×2)
  V5 – i⁶ – IVsus2
• D5 – Gm/B♭
  V5 – i⁶

Part 12 (2:12)

• Csus2 – D5 – Gm/B♭ – Csus2 – G5 – C5 – B♭5 – E♭5
  IVsus2 – V5 – i⁶ – IVsus2 – I5 – IV5 – bIII5 – bVI5

Part 13 (2:26)

• C5 – E♭5 – B♭5 – G5 – C5 – B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 – E♭5
  IV5 – bVI5 – bIII5 – I5 – IV5 – bIII5 – bVI5 – IV5 – bVI5

Part 14 (2:39)

Same chords as Part 11 (2:01).

Part 15 (2:49)

Same chords as Part 8 (1:25).

Part 16 (2:59)

• Gm/B♭ – Csus2 – D5 (×2)
  i⁶ – IVsus2 – V5
• Gm/B♭ – Csus2 – G5
  i⁶ – IVsus2 – I5

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B5 (III5) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.
• A5 (II5) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.

Sources & accuracy

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