Have a Drink on Me by AC/DC

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 23

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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)

• A – D/A (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄

Part 2 (0:12)

• A5 – D5 – C5 – A5
  I5 – IV5 – bIII5 – I5

Part 3 (0:22)

• A – D/A (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄
• C5 – A5 – A – D/A
  bIII5 – I5 – I – IV⁶₄

Part 4 (0:33)

• A – D/A – C5 – A5 – A – A7/G
  I – IV⁶₄ – bIII5 – I5 – I – I⁴₂

Part 5 (0:43)

• Aadd11/D – A
  Iadd11 (bass D) – I

Part 6 (0:54)

• A5 – A – A7/G – G5 – A7/G – Aadd11/D – D5
  I5 – I – I⁴₂ – bVII5 – I⁴₂ – Iadd11 (bass D) – IV5

Part 7 (1:05)

• Aadd11/D – D5 – F5 – G5 – A7 – D/A – A7
  Iadd11 (bass D) – IV5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – I7 – IV⁶₄ – I7

Part 8 (1:15)

• D/A – C5 – A5
  IV⁶₄ – bIII5 – I5
• A7 – D/A (×2)
  I7 – IV⁶₄
• C5 – A5
  bIII5 – I5

Part 9 (1:25)

• A
  I

Part 10 (1:36)

• A7/G – Aadd11/D – A
  I⁴₂ – Iadd11 (bass D) – I

Part 11 (1:46)

• A5 – A – A7/G – G5 – A7/G
  I5 – I – I⁴₂ – bVII5 – I⁴₂

Part 12 (1:57)

• Aadd11/D – D5 (×2)
  Iadd11 (bass D) – IV5
• F5 – G5 – A7 – D/A
  bVI5 – bVII5 – I7 – IV⁶₄

Part 13 (2:07)

• A7 – D/A – C5 – A5 – A7 – D/A – A7
  I7 – IV⁶₄ – bIII5 – I5 – I7 – IV⁶₄ – I7

Part 14 (2:18)

• D/A – C5
  IV⁶₄ – bIII5
• A5 – E5 (×3)
  I5 – V5
• A5 – G5 – D5
  I5 – bVII5 – IV5

Part 15 (2:28)

• E5 – A5 (×4)
  V5 – I5

Part 16 (2:38)

• E5 – A5 (×2)
  V5 – I5
• G5 – D5
  bVII5 – IV5

Part 17 (2:49)

• A5
  I5

Part 18 (2:59)

Same chords as Part 17 (2:49).

Part 19 (3:09)

• D5 – G5 – D5 – A5 (×2)
  IV5 – bVII5 – IV5 – I5
• D5 – G5 – D5
  IV5 – bVII5 – IV5

Part 20 (3:20)

• A5 – D5 – G5 – D5 (×2)
  I5 – IV5 – bVII5 – IV5
• A5 – D5
  I5 – IV5

Part 21 (3:30)

• G5 – D5 – A5 – D5 (×2)
  bVII5 – IV5 – I5 – IV5
• A5
  I5

Part 22 (3:40)

• D5 – A5 – D5
  IV5 – I5 – IV5

Part 23 (3:50)

Same chords as Part 17 (2:49).

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C5 (bIII5) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• G5 (bVII5) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• F5 (bVI5) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• A7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to D/A.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Back In Black), 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 (Back In Black), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.