I Don't Blame You at All by The Miracles

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus ×2 → Verse → 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

• A♭ – D♭
  I – IV

Chorus 1

• A♭ – G♭ (×2)
  I – bVII
• A♭
  I

Verse 1

• A♭ – E♭m – D♭ (×2)
  I – v – IV
• G♭ – D♭ – D♭maj7 – Ddim – A♭/E♭ – A♭ – D♭/A♭ – A♭
  bVII – IV – IVmaj7 – #iv° – I⁶₄ – I – IV⁶₄ – I

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 2

• A♭ – E♭m – D♭ (×2)
  I – v – IV
• G♭ – D♭ – Ddim – A♭/E♭ – A♭ – D♭/A♭ – A♭
  bVII – IV – #iv° – I⁶₄ – I – IV⁶₄ – I

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 3

• A♭ – E♭m – D♭ (×3)
  I – v – IV
• A♭ – G♭ – D♭ – Ddim – A♭/E♭ – A♭ – D♭/A♭ – A♭
  I – bVII – IV – #iv° – I⁶₄ – I – IV⁶₄ – I

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 6

• A♭ – G♭ (×3)
  I – bVII
• A♭
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A♭ minor.
• E♭m (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, A♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0582, 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.