Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Break → Verse → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). 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

• D – Gsus4 – G – D – Gsus4 – A – D – G – D – A – Asus4
  I – IVsus4 – IV – I – IVsus4 – V – I – IV – I – V – Vsus4

Verse 1

• D – A – D – G – D – A
  I – V – I – IV – I – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• D – C – G/B – D – C – A – D – G – D – A – D – G – F – D – A – D
  I – bVII – IV⁶ – I – bVII – V – I – IV – I – V – I – IV – bIII – I – V – I

Break

• G7
  IV7
• D – A – D – G (×2)
  I – V – I – IV

Verse 3

• D – A – D – G – D – A – D
  I – V – I – IV – I – V – I

Chorus 2

• D – C – G/B – D – C
  I – bVII – IV⁶ – I – bVII
• A – D – G – D (×2)
  V – I – IV – I
• A
  V

Outro

• D
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gsus4 (IVsus4) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• C (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• F (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 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.