I Can't Stand It by Eric Clapton

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus → Verse → 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

• Dm – Am – G (×2)
  i – v – IV

Verse 1

• Dm – Am – G (×2)
  i – v – IV

Chorus 1

• Am – F – G (×3)
  v – bIII – IV
• Am
  v

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• Dm – Am – G (×2)
  i – v – IV

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 3

• Dm7 – Am7 – G7 (×2)
  i7 – v7 – IV7

Chorus 4

• Am – F – G (×30)
  v – bIII – IV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0898, 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.