Fields of Gold by Sting

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 7 · 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)

• Bm7
  vi7

Part 2 (0:02)

• Bsus2
  VIsus2

Part 3 (0:21)

• G – D – Bsus2 – G – D – G/B – A – Bm7 – G
  IV – I – VIsus2 – IV – I – IV⁶ – V – vi7 – IV

Part 4 (0:39)

• D – Bsus2 – G (×2)
  I – VIsus2 – IV
• D
  I

Part 5 (0:58)

• G/B – A
  IV⁶ – V
• D – Bsus2 – G (×2)
  I – VIsus2 – IV
• D
  I

Part 6 (1:16)

• G/B – A – Bm7 – G – D – Bsus2 – G
  IV⁶ – V – vi7 – IV – I – VIsus2 – IV

Part 7 (1:35)

• D – Bsus2 – G – D – G/B – A
  I – VIsus2 – IV – I – IV⁶ – V
• D – G (×2)
  I – IV

Part 8 (1:53)

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

Part 9 (2:12)

• Bsus2 – G – D (×2)
  VIsus2 – IV – I
• G/B – A – D
  IV⁶ – V – I

Part 10 (2:30)

Same chords as Part 9 (2:12).

Part 11 (2:49)

Same chords as Part 9 (2:12).

Part 12 (3:07)

• G/B – A – D (×2)
  IV⁶ – V – I
• G/D – D (×4)
  IV⁶₄ – I
• G/D
  IV⁶₄

Part 13 (3:25)

• D – G/D (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄
• 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 (Ten Summoner S Tales), 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 (Ten Summoner S Tales), 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.