If You Need Me by Solomon Burke

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Chorus → Chorus ×2 → 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

• A – E7 – F♯m – A – E7
  I – V7 – vi – I – V7

Chorus 1

• A – E7 – A – D – A – E7 – F♯m – A – E7
  I – V7 – I – IV – I – V7 – vi – I – V7

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

• A – E7 – A – D – A – E7 – F♯m – A
  I – V7 – I – IV – I – V7 – vi – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0160, 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.