Forever Man by Eric Clapton

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 10

Form: Pre-Verse → Verse → Pre-Verse → Verse → Pre-Verse → Solo → Pre-Verse → Verse → Pre-Verse → 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

Pre-Verse 1

• D7sus4
  I7sus4

Verse 1

• B♭ – C – Dm (×3)
  bVI – bVII – i
• Gm – B♭ – C – Dm – B♭ – C
  iv – bVI – bVII – i – bVI – bVII

Pre-Verse 2

Same chords as Pre-Verse 1.

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Verse 3

Same chords as Pre-Verse 1.

Solo 1

• B♭ – C – Dm (×3)
  bVI – bVII – i
• Gm – B♭ – C – Dm – B♭ – C
  iv – bVI – bVII – i – bVI – bVII

Pre-Verse 4

Same chords as Pre-Verse 1.

Verse 3

• B♭ – C – Dm (×3)
  bVI – bVII – i
• Gm
  iv
• B♭ – C – Dm (×4)
  bVI – bVII – i
• Gm
  iv
• B♭ – C – Dm (×4)
  bVI – bVII – i
• Gm – B♭ – C – Dm
  iv – bVI – bVII – i

Pre-Verse 5

Same chords as Pre-Verse 1.

Solo 2

• Dm7
  i7

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0155, 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.