I'm in Love by Evelyn "Champagne" King

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Interlude → 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

• Fm – Cm – Fm – Gm – Cm (×6)
  iv – i – iv – v – i

Verse 1

• Fm – Cm – Fm – Gm – Cm (×2)
  iv – i – iv – v – i

Pre-Chorus 1

• A♭ – B♭ – Gm – C – A♭ – B♭ – Gm – B♭7sus4
  bVI – bVII – v – I – bVI – bVII – v – bVII7sus4

Chorus 1

• Fm – Cm – Fm – Gm – Cm (×4)
  iv – i – iv – v – i

Interlude 1

• Fm – Cm – Fm – Gm – Cm
  iv – i – iv – v – i

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude 2

• Fm – Cm – Fm – Gm – Cm (×2)
  iv – i – iv – v – i

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 5

• Fm – Cm – Fm – Gm – Cm (×2)
  iv – i – iv – v – i
• Fm – Cm – Fm – Gm
  iv – i – iv – v

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0482, 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.