I'll Take You There by The Staple Singers

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Chorus → Solo → Solo ×2 → Chorus ×3

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

• C – F (×2)
  I – IV
• C
  I

Verse

• C – F – G9sus4 (×4)
  I – IV – V9sus4

Pre-Chorus

• C – F – G9sus4 (×2)
  I – IV – V9sus4

Chorus 1

• C – F – G9sus4 (×4)
  I – IV – V9sus4

Chorus 2

• C – F – G9sus4 (×3)
  I – IV – V9sus4

Solo 1

• C – F – G9sus4 (×4)
  I – IV – V9sus4

Solo 2

Same chords as Solo 1.

Solo 3

Same chords as Solo 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0046, 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.