Hot Child in the City by Nick Gilder

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 11

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

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

• E – A – B (×2)
  I – IV – V

Verse 1

• E – A – B (×4)
  I – IV – V

Pre-Chorus 1

• E – A (×4)
  I – IV

Chorus 1

• E – A (×4)
  I – IV

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• E – A – B – E – A (×2)
  I – IV – V – I – IV

Bridge

• B – F♯m – A – E – B – F♯m – A – B7sus4
  V – ii – IV – I – V – ii – IV – V7sus4

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• E – A (×4)
  I – IV
• E
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0615, 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.