Frankenstein by Edgar Winter

Overview

Key: G minor · Chords used: 31 · Sections: 12

Form: Theme → Theme → Transition → Theme → Solo → Interlude → Transition → Solo → Transition → Theme → Theme → 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

Theme 1

• G5 – B♭ (×2)
  I5 – bIII
• G5
  I5

Theme 2

• Gm7 – B♭7♯9 – E♭7 – Dmadd11 – G7♯9
  i7 – bIII7#9 – bVI7 – vadd11 – I7#9
• C7♯9 – F/C (×2)
  IV7#9 – bVII⁶₄
• Gm7/D – Dm7 – Gm7/D – Dm9
  i⁴₃ – v7 – i⁴₃ – v9

Transition 1

• Gm7 – C7 – E♭/D♭ – Gm/D – E♭add9 – C7/E
  i7 – IV7 – bVI (bass D♭) – i⁶₄ – bVIadd9 – IV⁶₅

Theme 3

Same chords as Theme 1.

Solo 1

• Gm7 – C – Gm9
  i7 – IV – i9
• C7 – Gm7 (×2)
  IV7 – i7
• C7
  IV7

Interlude

• Gm7 – C7 (×4)
  i7 – IV7
• Gm7 – Am7 – B♭ – Bdim – C6 – C9 – G7sus4 – Am7 – B♭6 – C7♯9 – Dm7 – C6/E – F – G9sus4 – C6
  i7 – ii7 – bIII – iii° – IV6 – IV9 – I7sus4 – ii7 – bIII6 – IV7#9 – v7 – IV6 (bass E) – bVII – I9sus4 – IV6

Transition 2

• Gm7 – C/G – Gm – C/G
  i7 – IV⁶₄ – i – IV⁶₄

Solo 2

• Gm7 – C/G – Gm – C/G (×2)
  i7 – IV⁶₄ – i – IV⁶₄
• Gm7
  i7

Transition 3

• Gm7
  i7

Theme 4

Same chords as Theme 1.

Theme 5

• Gm7
  i7

Outro

• Gm7 – B♭7 – Gm7
  i7 – bIII7 – i7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.
• Am7 (ii7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.
• C6 (IV6) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.
• C6/E (IV6 (bass E)) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.
• C/G (IV⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, G major.
• C7♯9 acts as V/bVII: it resolves to F/C.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1268, 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.