I Had Too Much to Dream by Electric Prunes

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 11

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

• D5 – Dm
  I5 – i

Verse 1

• Dm – C (×2)
  i – bVII
• Gm – Dm (×2)
  iv – i
• G
  IV

Pre-Chorus 1

• Dm – D♭m – G – F – E♭
  i – bi – IV – bIII – bII

Chorus 1

• Dm – G (×3)
  i – IV
• Dm – A
  i – V

Transition 1

• Dm – C – B♭ – C (×2)
  i – bVII – bVI – bVII

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 2

Same chords as Transition 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• Dm – C – B♭ – C (×10)
  i – bVII – bVI – bVII

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 0134, 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.