If It's Hurting You by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 10

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). 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 (0:05)

• Em
  i

Part 2 (0:08)

• D/F♯ – Em (×3)
  bVII⁶ – i
• D/F♯ – Am
  bVII⁶ – iv

Part 3 (0:33)

• G – D
  bIII – bVII
• Em – D/F♯ (×3)
  i – bVII⁶
• Am
  iv

Part 4 (0:58)

• G – D – Em – C – D/C – Am – C
  bIII – bVII – i – bVI – bVII (bass C) – iv – bVI

Part 5 (1:23)

• D/C – G – C – D/C – F – Am
  bVII (bass C) – bIII – bVI – bVII (bass C) – bII – iv

Part 6 (1:48)

• Em – D/F♯ (×3)
  i – bVII⁶
• Em
  i

Part 7 (2:13)

• D/F♯ – Am – G – D – Em – C – D/C – Am
  bVII⁶ – iv – bIII – bVII – i – bVI – bVII (bass C) – iv

Part 8 (2:38)

• C – D/C – G – C – D/C – F
  bVI – bVII (bass C) – bIII – bVI – bVII (bass C) – bII

Part 9 (3:03)

• Am
  iv
• Em – D/F♯ (×2)
  i – bVII⁶
• Em
  i

Part 10 (3:27)

• D/F♯ – Em (×4)
  bVII⁶ – i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Sing When You're Winning, 2000), 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 (Sing When You're Winning, 2000), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• 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.