Harden My Heart by Quarterflash

Overview

Key: B minor · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 14

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Solo → Solo → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Chorus → Chorus ×2

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

• Bm7 – Gadd9 – A – Gadd9 – A (×2)
  i7 – bVIadd9 – bVII – bVIadd9 – bVII

Verse 1

• Bm – A (×2)
  i – bVII

Pre-Chorus 1

• Gadd9 – A
  bVIadd9 – bVII
• Bm7 – A – Gadd9 (×2)
  i7 – bVII – bVIadd9
• A
  bVII

Chorus 1

• Bm – A – Gadd9 – A – Bm7 – A – Gadd9
  i – bVII – bVIadd9 – bVII – i7 – bVII – bVIadd9

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo 1

• Bm7 – Gadd9 – A – Gadd9 – A (×2)
  i7 – bVIadd9 – bVII – bVIadd9 – bVII

Solo 2

• Bm – A (×2)
  i – bVII

Pre-Chorus 3

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

• Bm – A (×2)
  i – bVII

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 4.

Chorus 6

Same chords as Chorus 4.

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0608, 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.