Heaven by Bryan Adams

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 18

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 (0:00)

• C
  I

Part 2 (0:01)

• Am – C/G – Fadd9 – C – Am – C/G – Fadd9
  vi – I⁶₄ – IVadd9 – I – vi – I⁶₄ – IVadd9

Part 3 (0:15)

• C – Am7 – G – Dm – Am – B♭add9 – Gsus4 – G
  I – vi7 – V – ii – vi – bVIIadd9 – Vsus4 – V

Part 4 (0:29)

• C – Am7 – G – Dm – Am – B♭add9 – F/A
  I – vi7 – V – ii – vi – bVIIadd9 – IV⁶

Part 5 (0:42)

• Gsus4 – G – F – G – Am – C – F – G – Am
  Vsus4 – V – IV – V – vi – I – IV – V – vi

Part 6 (0:56)

• G – F – G – Am – C – F – G – Am
  V – IV – V – vi – I – IV – V – vi

Part 7 (1:10)

• G5 – C – Am – C/G – Fadd9 – C
  V5 – I – vi – I⁶₄ – IVadd9 – I

Part 8 (1:24)

• Am7 – G – Dm – Am – B♭add9 – Gsus4 – C
  vi7 – V – ii – vi – bVIIadd9 – Vsus4 – I

Part 9 (1:37)

• Am7 – G – Dm – Am – B♭add9 – F/A – Gsus4
  vi7 – V – ii – vi – bVIIadd9 – IV⁶ – Vsus4

Part 10 (1:51)

• G – F – G – Am – C – F – G – Am – G
  V – IV – V – vi – I – IV – V – vi – V

Part 11 (2:05)

• F – G – Am – C – F – G – Am – G
  IV – V – vi – I – IV – V – vi – V

Part 12 (2:19)

• Dm – C/E – F – G – Am
  ii – I⁶ – IV – V – vi

Part 13 (2:32)

• G/B – C – Dm – C/E – F – C
  V⁶ – I – ii – I⁶ – IV – I

Part 14 (2:46)

• Gsus4 – G – F – G – Am – C – F – G
  Vsus4 – V – IV – V – vi – I – IV – V

Part 15 (2:59)

• Am – G – F – G – Am – C – F – G
  vi – V – IV – V – vi – I – IV – V

Part 16 (3:13)

Same chords as Part 15 (2:59).

Part 17 (3:27)

• Am – G – F – G – Am – C5 – F – G
  vi – V – IV – V – vi – I5 – IV – V

Part 18 (3:40)

• Am – G – F – G – Am – C – F – G – Am – G
  vi – V – IV – V – vi – I – IV – V – vi – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭add9 (bVIIadd9) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (So Far So Good), 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 (So Far So Good), 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.