If You Love Me by Olivia Newton-John

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 14

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)

• B♭
  IV

Part 2 (0:03)

• F – C – B♭ – F
  I – V – IV – I

Part 3 (0:17)

• B♭/F – F (×2)
  IV⁶₄ – I
• F7 – B♭
  I7 – IV

Part 4 (0:32)

• F – Gm – C7 – F – B♭
  I – ii – V7 – I – IV

Part 5 (0:47)

• F – C7 – F – F7 – B♭
  I – V7 – I – I7 – IV

Part 6 (1:01)

• F – C7 – B♭ – F – C7
  I – V7 – IV – I – V7

Part 7 (1:16)

• B♭
  IV
• F – B♭/F (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄
• F
  I

Part 8 (1:31)

• C – B♭ – F – Gm
  V – IV – I – ii

Part 9 (1:46)

• C7 – F – B♭/F – F
  V7 – I – IV⁶₄ – I

Part 10 (2:01)

• F7 – B♭ – F – Gm
  I7 – IV – I – ii

Part 11 (2:16)

• C7 – F – B♭ – F – C7
  V7 – I – IV – I – V7

Part 12 (2:30)

• F – F7 – B♭ – F – C7
  I – I7 – IV – I – V7

Part 13 (2:45)

• B♭ – F (×2)
  IV – I
• C7
  V7

Part 14 (3:00)

• B♭ – F
  IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to B♭.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Olivia), 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 (Olivia), 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.