I Don't Want Your Love by Duran Duran

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Interlude → Pre-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

• D7(no3)
  I7(no3)

Verse 1

• Dm7 – Dm6 – B♭/D – Dm6 – Dm7 – Dm6 – B♭/D – Dm
  i7 – i6 – bVI⁶ – i6 – i7 – i6 – bVI⁶ – i

Chorus 1

• Dm – Csus4 – G7 (×2)
  i – bVIIsus4 – IV7

Interlude 1

• D7(no3)
  I7(no3)

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• Dm – Csus4 – G7 (×4)
  i – bVIIsus4 – IV7

Interlude 2

• Dm
  i

Verse 3

• Dm7 – Dm6 – B♭/D – Dm (×2)
  i7 – i6 – bVI⁶ – i

Interlude 3

• Dm – Csus4 – G7 (×2)
  i – bVIIsus4 – IV7

Pre-Chorus

• Dm – Csus4 – G7
  i – bVIIsus4 – IV7

Chorus 3

• Dm – Csus4 – G7 (×5)
  i – bVIIsus4 – IV7

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1148, 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.