I Found a True Love by Wilson Pickett

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 6

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

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

• C – F/C – C
  I – IV⁶₄ – I

Verse 1

• C – C7 (×2)
  I – I7
• F7
  IV7
• C – C7 (×2)
  I – I7
• Am – G – C
  vi – V – I

Verse 2

• C – C7 (×2)
  I – I7
• F7
  IV7
• C – C7 (×3)
  I – I7
• Am – G – C – C7
  vi – V – I – I7

Solo

• C – F7 (×4)
  I – IV7
• C
  I

Chorus

• C – F7 (×4)
  I – IV7
• C
  I

Outro

• C – G – F7 – C/G – G (×4)
  I – V – IV7 – I⁶₄ – V

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0943, 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.