Father of Mine by Everclear

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 13

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♭5 – F5 – G♭5 – E♭5 (×2)
  I5 – III5 – IV5 – II5

Part 2 (0:19)

• D♭5 – F5 – G♭5 – E♭5 – D♭5 – F5 – G♭5 – E♭
  I5 – III5 – IV5 – II5 – I5 – III5 – IV5 – II

Part 3 (0:39)

• D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭ – A♭ – D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭ – D♭5 – F5 – G♭5
  I – V – IV – III – IV – V – I – V – IV – III – IV – I5 – III5 – IV5

Part 4 (0:55)

• E♭5 – D♭5 – F5 – G♭5 (×2)
  II5 – I5 – III5 – IV5

Part 5 (1:15)

• E♭5 – D♭5 – F5 – G♭5 – E♭ – D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭
  II5 – I5 – III5 – IV5 – II – I – V – IV – III – IV

Part 6 (1:33)

• A♭ – D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭ (×2)
  V – I – V – IV – III – IV
• A♭ – D♭ – A♭ – G♭
  V – I – V – IV

Part 7 (1:46)

• F – G♭ – D♭5 – F5 – G♭ – E♭ – D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭ – A♭
  III – IV – I5 – III5 – IV – II – I – V – IV – III – IV – V

Part 8 (2:03)

• D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭ – A♭ (×2)
  I – V – IV – III – IV – V
• D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – F
  I – V – IV – III

Part 9 (2:17)

• G♭ – D♭ – D♭5 – F5 – G♭5 – E♭5
  IV – I – I5 – III5 – IV5 – II5

Part 10 (2:37)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 11 (2:56)

• D♭5 – F5 – G♭ – E♭ – D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭ – A♭ – D♭
  I5 – III5 – IV – II – I – V – IV – III – IV – V – I

Part 12 (3:14)

• A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭ – A♭ – D♭ (×2)
  V – IV – III – IV – V – I
• A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭
  V – IV – III – IV

Part 13 (3:27)

• A♭ – D♭ – A♭ – G♭ – F – G♭ (×2)
  V – I – V – IV – III – IV
• D♭
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

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