Good Vibrations by Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 13

Form: Instrumental → Chorus → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Verse → Solo → Chorus → Chorus → 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

Instrumental

• A♭ – B♭m7 – G♭ (×4)
  I – ii7 – bVII
• A♭
  I

Chorus 1

• A♭ – B♭m7 – G♭ (×4)
  I – ii7 – bVII
• A♭
  I

Pre-Chorus 1

• A♭ – B♭m/A♭ – G♭ (×2)
  I – ii (bass A♭) – bVII
• A♭
  I

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Pre-Chorus 3

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse

• A♭ – B♭m/A♭ – G♭ (×2)
  I – ii (bass A♭) – bVII
• A♭ – B♭m7 – G♭ (×2)
  I – ii7 – bVII
• A♭
  I

Solo 1

• A♭ – B♭m7 – G♭ (×4)
  I – ii7 – bVII
• A♭
  I

Chorus 5

• A♭ – B♭m/A♭ – G♭ (×4)
  I – ii (bass A♭) – bVII
• A♭
  I

Chorus 6

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo 2

Same chords as Solo 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0352, 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.