Get Ready by Rare Earth

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Solo → 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

• D – G – F (×6)
  I – IV – bIII

Verse 1

• D – G – F (×6)
  I – IV – bIII

Chorus 1

• F – B♭7 – Gm – C (×2)
  bIII – bVI7 – iv – bVII

Verse 2

• D – G – F (×8)
  I – IV – bIII

Chorus 2

• F – B♭ – Gm7 – C (×2)
  bIII – bVI – iv7 – bVII

Verse 3

• D – G – F (×2)
  I – IV – bIII

Solo

• D – G – F (×2)
  I – IV – bIII
• G – A (×3)
  IV – V
• B♭ – Am – G
  bVI – v – IV

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Outro

• D – G – F (×4)
  I – IV – bIII

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• Gm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• C (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• B♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• Gm7 (iv7) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• Am (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1220, 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.