I Don't Mind by James Brown

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Interlude → Verse → Interlude

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

• Am – C (×3)
  vi – I

Verse 1

• Am – C (×2)
  vi – I
• F – D – G – C
  IV – II – V – I

Verse 2

• A – C (×2)
  VI – I
• F – D – G – C
  IV – II – V – I

Interlude 1

• Am – C (×2)
  vi – I
• F – D – G – C
  IV – II – V – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Interlude 2

• Am – C (×2)
  vi – I
• Am
  vi

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D acts as V/V: it resolves to G.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0003, 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.