Fire and Ice by Pat Benatar

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 15

Form: Intro → Verse → Transition → Chorus → Interlude → Intro → Verse → Transition → Chorus → Transition → Bridge → Solo → Solo → Chorus → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). 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 1

• C5
  I5

Verse 1

• C5 – A♭ – E♭ – G (×2)
  I5 – bVI – bIII – V

Transition 1

• G – A♭
  V – bVI

Chorus 1

• Cm – A♭maj7 – B♭add9 (×2)
  i – bVImaj7 – bVIIadd9

Interlude

• F – A♭
  IV – bVI

Intro 2

Same chords as Intro 1.

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Transition 2

Same chords as Transition 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 3

• A♭ – B♭
  bVI – bVII

Bridge

• G7sus4 – G7/B – A♭5/E♭ – A♭5 – G7sus4 – G7/B – A♭ – B♭
  V7sus4 – V⁶₅ – bVI5 (bass E♭) – bVI5 – V7sus4 – V⁶₅ – bVI – bVII

Solo 1

• Cm – A♭maj7 – B♭add9 (×2)
  i – bVImaj7 – bVIIadd9

Solo 2

• A♭ – B♭
  bVI – bVII

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• Cm – A♭maj7 – B♭add9 (×5)
  i – bVImaj7 – bVIIadd9

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0089, CC0), 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.