Grace by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 8

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). 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

Part 1 (0:06)

• B♭ – A♭ (×2)
  I – bVII
• Gm7 – C9 – Fm7 – B♭
  vi7 – II9 – v7 – I

Part 2 (0:30)

• Gm7 – D – E – F – Cmaj7 – Gm7 – E♭maj7 – B♭ – Cmaj7 – Gm7
  vi7 – III – #IV – V – IImaj7 – vi7 – IVmaj7 – I – IImaj7 – vi7

Part 3 (0:53)

• E♭maj7 – B♭ – A♭ – Gm7 – C9 – Fm7 – B♭ – Gm7 – D
  IVmaj7 – I – bVII – vi7 – II9 – v7 – I – vi7 – III

Part 4 (1:18)

• E – F
  #IV – V
• Cmaj7 – Gm7 – E♭maj7 – B♭ (×2)
  IImaj7 – vi7 – IVmaj7 – I

Part 5 (1:41)

• C9 – E♭m – B♭ – C9 – E♭m – Gm7 – C9
  II9 – iv – I – II9 – iv – vi7 – II9

Part 6 (2:05)

• Fm7 – B♭ – Gm7 – D – E – F – Cmaj7 – Gm7 – E♭maj7 – B♭
  v7 – I – vi7 – III – #IV – V – IImaj7 – vi7 – IVmaj7 – I

Part 7 (2:28)

• Cmaj7 – Gm7 – E♭maj7 – B♭ (×2)
  IImaj7 – vi7 – IVmaj7 – I

Part 8 (2:53)

• Cmaj7 – Gm7 – E♭maj7 – B♭
  IImaj7 – vi7 – IVmaj7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• Fm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• E♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• 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.