In the Still of the Night by The Five Satins

Overview

Key: G♭ major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Solo → Verse → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. 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

• G♭ – E♭m – B – D♭/A♭ – D♭
  I – vi – #III – V⁶₄ – V

Verse 1

• G♭ – E♭m – B – D♭/A♭ – D♭ (×2)
  I – vi – #III – V⁶₄ – V
• G♭ – B – D♭ – G♭/B♭
  I – #III – V – I⁶

Bridge

• B – G♭ – B – D♭
  #III – I – #III – V

Verse 2

• G♭ – E♭m – B – D♭/A♭ – D♭ – G♭ – B/F♯ – D♭
  I – vi – #III – V⁶₄ – V – I – #III⁶₄ – V

Solo

• G♭ – E♭m – B – D♭/A♭ – D♭ (×2)
  I – vi – #III – V⁶₄ – V
• G♭ – B – D♭
  I – #III – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Outro

• G♭ – E♭m – B – D♭/A♭ – D♭ (×2)
  I – vi – #III – V⁶₄ – V

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
G♭	I	Home chord (tonic)	Intro, Verse, Bridge, Solo, Outro
E♭m	vi	In the key	Intro, Verse, Solo, Outro
B	#III	In the key	Intro, Verse, Bridge, Solo, Outro
D♭/A♭	V⁶₄	In the key	Intro, Verse, Solo, Outro
D♭	V	In the key	Intro, Verse, Bridge, Solo, Outro
G♭/B♭	I⁶	Home chord (tonic)	Verse
B/F♯	#III⁶₄	In the key	Verse

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. Expert by-ear harmonic analysis of the original recording, shown on this page.
• Cross-check: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by David Temperley. Independent by-ear analysis of the same recording. The two analysts agree on the chord (root and major/minor) for 98% of the song.
• Verified: two independent expert transcriptions agree on this song's harmony.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.