I Wish It Would Rain Down by Phil Collins

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 22

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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

Part 1 (0:01)

• A♭
  I

Part 2 (0:03)

• E♭/G – Fm7 – E♭/G – A♭
  V⁶ – vi7 – V⁶ – I

Part 3 (0:18)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:03).

Part 4 (0:34)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:03).

Part 5 (0:49)

• E♭/G – Fm7 – D♭
  V⁶ – vi7 – IV

Part 6 (1:04)

• E♭sus4 – E♭ – D♭ – E♭sus4 – D♭
  Vsus4 – V – IV – Vsus4 – IV

Part 7 (1:19)

• E♭sus4 – E♭ – D♭ – E♭sus4 – D♭/F – E♭/G – E♭sus4/A♭ – E♭/B♭ – A♭
  Vsus4 – V – IV – Vsus4 – IV⁶ – V⁶ – Vsus4 (bass A♭) – V⁶₄ – I

Part 8 (1:34)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:03).

Part 9 (1:49)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:49).

Part 10 (2:04)

Same chords as Part 6 (1:04).

Part 11 (2:19)

• E♭sus4 – E♭ – D♭ – E♭sus4 – D♭/F – E♭/G – E♭sus4/A♭ – E♭/B♭
  Vsus4 – V – IV – Vsus4 – IV⁶ – V⁶ – Vsus4 (bass A♭) – V⁶₄

Part 12 (2:34)

• A♭ – B♭7/A♭ – D♭/A♭ – D♭add9/E♭ – A♭
  I – II⁴₂ – IV⁶₄ – IVadd9 (bass E♭) – I

Part 13 (2:49)

• B♭7/A♭ – D♭/A♭ – D♭add9/E♭ – A♭
  II⁴₂ – IV⁶₄ – IVadd9 (bass E♭) – I

Part 14 (3:04)

• E♭/G – Fm7 – E♭/G
  V⁶ – vi7 – V⁶

Part 15 (3:19)

• A♭ – E♭/G – Fm7
  I – V⁶ – vi7

Part 16 (3:35)

• D♭ – E♭sus4 – E♭ – D♭ – E♭sus4
  IV – Vsus4 – V – IV – Vsus4

Part 17 (3:50)

• D♭ – E♭sus4 – E♭ – D♭ – E♭sus4 – D♭/F – E♭/G – E♭sus4/A♭
  IV – Vsus4 – V – IV – Vsus4 – IV⁶ – V⁶ – Vsus4 (bass A♭)

Part 18 (4:05)

• E♭/B♭ – A♭ – E♭/G – Fm
  V⁶₄ – I – V⁶ – vi

Part 19 (4:19)

• E♭/G – A♭ – E♭/G – Fm
  V⁶ – I – V⁶ – vi

Part 20 (4:35)

• E♭ – A♭ – E♭/G – Fm
  V – I – V⁶ – vi

Part 21 (4:50)

Same chords as Part 20 (4:35).

Part 22 (5:05)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:01).

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (But Seriously), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (But Seriously), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.