I Wish It Would Rain by The Temptations

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → 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

• B♭ – E♭ (×2)
  I – IV
• B♭
  I

Verse 1

• B♭ – E♭
  I – IV

Verse 2

• B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – F7
  I – IV – I – V7
• E♭ – B♭ (×2)
  IV – I
• E♭
  IV

Chorus 1

• B♭ – E♭ (×4)
  I – IV

Verse 3

• B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – F7 – E♭ – B♭ – E♭
  I – IV – I – V7 – IV – I – IV

Chorus 2

• B♭ – E♭ (×6)
  I – IV

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0900, 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.