For Ol' Times Sake by Elvis Presley

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Solo → Verse → Solo → Solo

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

• B♭
  I

Verse 1

• B♭ – B♭maj7/A – F9sus4 – B♭7 – E♭ (×2)
  I – Imaj⁴₂ – V9sus4 – I7 – IV
• F7sus4 – B♭ – Cm7 – F7 – B♭
  V7sus4 – I – ii7 – V7 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge

• E♭ – F7 – B♭ (×2)
  IV – V7 – I
• E♭ – F – B♭ – F/A – Gm7 – E♭ – F7sus4 – F – F7
  IV – V – I – V⁶ – vi7 – IV – V7sus4 – V – V7

Solo 1

• B♭ – B♭maj7/A – F9sus4 – B♭7 – E♭
  I – Imaj⁴₂ – V9sus4 – I7 – IV

Verse 3

• B♭ – B♭maj7/A – F9sus4 – B♭7 – E♭ (×2)
  I – Imaj⁴₂ – V9sus4 – I7 – IV
• F7sus4 – B♭ – F/A – Cm7 – F7
  V7sus4 – I – V⁶ – ii7 – V7

Solo 2

• B♭ – B♭maj7/A – F9sus4 – B♭7 – E♭ – F7sus4 – B♭ – F/A – Cm7 – F7
  I – Imaj⁴₂ – V9sus4 – I7 – IV – V7sus4 – I – V⁶ – ii7 – V7

Solo 3

• B♭ – B♭maj7/A – B♭
  I – Imaj⁴₂ – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to E♭.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0222, 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.