For the Good Times by Ray Price

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 20 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Verse → 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

• A♭ – Gm7 – B♭7(no3) – A♭7♭9 – E♭6
  IV – iii7 – V7(no3) – IV7b9 – I6

Verse 1

• Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭6 – E♭maj7 – E♭6 – Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭6 – E♭maj7 – E♭ – A♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – A♭ – Fm7 – B♭7 – B♭9sus4
  ii7 – V7 – I – I6 – Imaj7 – I6 – ii7 – V7 – I – I6 – Imaj7 – I – IV – V7 – I – IV – ii7 – V7 – V9sus4

Chorus 1

• E♭maj7 – B♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭maj9 – Fm7 – E♭7 – A♭maj9 – A♭6 – A♭madd9 – A♭m – B♭7 – F9sus4 – B♭7 – B♭7♭9
  Imaj7 – V – V7 – I – ii7 – V7 – I – Imaj9 – ii7 – I7 – IVmaj9 – IV6 – ivadd9 – iv – V7 – II9sus4 – V7 – V7b9

Transition

• E♭maj7 – B♭9sus4 – E♭
  Imaj7 – V9sus4 – I

Verse 2

• Fm7 – B♭7 – E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭6 – E♭ – Fm7 – B♭7sus4
  ii7 – V7 – I – Imaj7 – I6 – I – ii7 – V7sus4
• B♭7 – E♭ – E♭maj7 – E♭6 – E♭ – A♭ (×2)
  V7 – I – Imaj7 – I6 – I – IV
• Fm7 – B♭7 – B♭9sus4
  ii7 – V7 – V9sus4

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• E♭maj7
  Imaj7
• B♭9sus4 – E♭ (×2)
  V9sus4 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭madd9 (ivadd9) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• A♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• B♭7♭9 (V7b9) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• E♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A♭maj9.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0102, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• 1 chord was simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.