Have You Ever Loved Somebody by Freddie Jackson

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 19 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Pre-Chorus → Chorus

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

• Esus4
  Isus4
• Em – Bm7 – Am7 – Cmaj7 – C/D – D/E (×2)
  i – v7 – iv7 – bVImaj7 – bVI (bass D) – bVII (bass E)

Verse 1

• Em – Bm7 – Am7 – Cmaj7 – C/D – D/E (×2)
  i – v7 – iv7 – bVImaj7 – bVI (bass D) – bVII (bass E)
• F/G – G
  bII (bass G) – bIII

Pre-Chorus 1

• Cmaj7 – D/B – Am7 – D9sus4 – Gmaj7 – Gmaj9 – Dm7 – G9sus4 – Am7 – Gadd9/B – Cmaj7 – D9sus4
  bVImaj7 – bVII (bass B) – iv7 – bVII9sus4 – bIIImaj7 – bIIImaj9 – bvii7 – bIII9sus4 – iv7 – bIIIadd9 (bass B) – bVImaj7 – bVII9sus4

Chorus 1

• Em – Bm7 – Am7 – Cmaj7 – C/D – D/E (×2)
  i – v7 – iv7 – bVImaj7 – bVI (bass D) – bVII (bass E)

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• Am7 – Bm7 – Esus4 (×2)
  iv7 – v7 – Isus4
• Cm7 – Dm7 – B♭maj7 – Asus4
  bvi7 – bvii7 – bVmaj7 – IVsus4
• D9sus4 – Em – Am7 – Bm7 – Cmaj7 (×2)
  bVII9sus4 – i – iv7 – v7 – bVImaj7
• D9sus4
  bVII9sus4

Pre-Chorus 3

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

• Em – Bm7 – Am7 – Cmaj7 – C/D – D/E (×7)
  i – v7 – iv7 – bVImaj7 – bVI (bass D) – bVII (bass E)

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0122, 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.