I Adore Mi Amor by Color Me Badd

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 21 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Interlude → 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

• E♭ – B – Ddim – E♭ – B – D♭
  I – #V – vii° – I – #V – bVII
• G♭6 – A♭6 – E♭ (×4)
  bIII6 – IV6 – I

Verse 1

• E♭m11 – A♭m11 – B♭m (×2)
  i11 – iv11 – v
• A♭m11 – A♭m9 – E♭m13 – A♭m9 – B♭sus4 – B♭
  iv11 – iv9 – i13 – iv9 – Vsus4 – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• E♭ – B – B♭7 – E♭ – A♭m7 – B♭11
  I – #V – V7 – I – iv7 – V11
• E♭maj9 – G♭ – A♭11 (×4)
  Imaj9 – bIII – IV11

Transition 1

• E♭maj9
  Imaj9

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

• E♭m11 – A♭m/E♭ – E♭m11 – A♭m11 – B♭m – A♭m11 – A♭m9 – E♭m13 – A♭m9 – Adim – B♭sus4 – B♭
  i11 – iv⁶₄ – i11 – iv11 – v – iv11 – iv9 – i13 – iv9 – #iv° – Vsus4 – V

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 2

Same chords as Transition 1.

Interlude

• E♭m11 – A♭m11 – B♭m (×4)
  i11 – iv11 – v
• A♭m11 – A♭m9 – E♭m13 – A♭m9 – B♭sus4 – B♭ – B♭11
  iv11 – iv9 – i13 – iv9 – Vsus4 – V – V11

Chorus 3

• E♭maj9 – G♭ – A♭11 (×4)
  Imaj9 – bIII – IV11

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 3.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B (#V) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• D♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• G♭6 (bIII6) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• E♭m11 (i11) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• A♭m11 (iv11) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• B♭m (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• A♭m9 (iv9) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• A♭m7 (iv7) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• G♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• A♭m/E♭ (iv⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0476, 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.