Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 8 · 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)

• G – Cadd9 – G/B – Gadd11/B
  bIII – bVIadd9 – bIII⁶ – bIIIadd11 (bass B)

Part 2 (0:07)

• G – Cadd9 – G/B – Gadd11/B (×2)
  bIII – bVIadd9 – bIII⁶ – bIIIadd11 (bass B)

Part 3 (0:21)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:07).

Part 4 (0:34)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:07).

Part 5 (0:48)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:07).

Part 6 (1:02)

• G – Cadd9 – G/B – Gadd11/B – G – Cadd9 – G/B – Gadd11/C
  bIII – bVIadd9 – bIII⁶ – bIIIadd11 (bass B) – bIII – bVIadd9 – bIII⁶ – bIIIadd11 (bass C)

Part 7 (1:16)

• G – Cadd9 – G/B – Gadd11/C – G/D – G – Cadd9 – G/B – Gadd11/C
  bIII – bVIadd9 – bIII⁶ – bIIIadd11 (bass C) – bIII⁶₄ – bIII – bVIadd9 – bIII⁶ – bIIIadd11 (bass C)

Part 8 (1:30)

Same chords as Part 7 (1:16).

Part 9 (1:44)

• G – Cadd9 – G/B – Gadd11/C – G/D – G – Gadd9/A – G/B – Gadd11/C
  bIII – bVIadd9 – bIII⁶ – bIIIadd11 (bass C) – bIII⁶₄ – bIII – bIIIadd9 (bass A) – bIII⁶ – bIIIadd11 (bass C)

Part 10 (1:58)

• G – Gadd9/A – G/B – Gadd11/C (×2)
  bIII – bIIIadd9 (bass A) – bIII⁶ – bIIIadd11 (bass C)

Part 11 (2:12)

Same chords as Part 10 (1:58).

Part 12 (2:26)

• E5
  I5

Part 13 (2:40)

• G – Gadd9/A – G/D (×2)
  bIII – bIIIadd9 (bass A) – bIII⁶₄

Part 14 (2:53)

• G – Gadd9/A – G/B – G – Gadd9/A – G/D
  bIII – bIIIadd9 (bass A) – bIII⁶ – bIII – bIIIadd9 (bass A) – bIII⁶₄

Part 15 (3:08)

Same chords as Part 12 (2:26).

Part 16 (3:21)

Same chords as Part 14 (2:53).

Part 17 (3:35)

Same chords as Part 14 (2:53).

Part 18 (3:49)

Same chords as Part 12 (2:26).

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Temple Of The Dog), 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 (Temple Of The Dog), 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.