If I Were Your Woman by Gladys Knight & The Pips

Overview

Key: F♯ major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Transition → Bridge → Chorus → Transition → Bridge → 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

• F♯ – Bm/F♯ (×2)
  I – iv⁶₄

Verse

• D♯m – Cdim – F♯/C♯ – D♯7
  vi – bv° – I⁶₄ – VI7
• G♯m – D♯m (×2)
  ii – vi
• B – D♯m
  IV – vi

Transition 1

• F♯ – Bm/F♯
  I – iv⁶₄

Bridge 1

• D♯m – Cdim – F♯/C♯ – D♯7 – G♯m – D♯m – G♯m – D
  vi – bv° – I⁶₄ – VI7 – ii – vi – ii – bVI

Chorus 1

• F♯ – Bm/F♯ – F♯/C♯ – D♯7 – Bm
  I – iv⁶₄ – I⁶₄ – VI7 – iv

Transition 2

• F♯ – Bm/F♯ (×2)
  I – iv⁶₄

Bridge 2

• D♯m – Cdim – F♯/C♯ – D♯7sus4 – D♯7
  vi – bv° – I⁶₄ – VI7sus4 – VI7
• G♯m – D♯m (×2)
  ii – vi

Chorus 2

• F♯ – Bm/F♯ – F♯/C♯ – D♯7 – Bm (×2)
  I – iv⁶₄ – I⁶₄ – VI7 – iv

Outro

• F♯ – Bm/F♯ (×4)
  I – iv⁶₄

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Bm/F♯ (iv⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, F♯ minor.
• D (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, F♯ minor.
• Bm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, F♯ minor.
• D♯7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to G♯m.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0343, 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.