I'd Love to Change the World by Ten Years After

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Interlude → 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

• Em – G – Am – C – B7 (×2)
  i – bIII – iv – bVI – V7

Verse 1

• Em – G – Am – C – B (×4)
  i – bIII – iv – bVI – V

Chorus 1

• Em – G – Am – C – B7 (×3)
  i – bIII – iv – bVI – V7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• Em – G – Am – C – B7 (×6)
  i – bIII – iv – bVI – V7

Interlude

• Em – G – Am – C – B7 (×2)
  i – bIII – iv – bVI – V7

Chorus 3

• Em – G – Am – C – B7 (×3)
  i – bIII – iv – bVI – V7
• Em
  i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0248, 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.