In Too Deep by Genesis

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 16

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 (0:00)

• B♭m7 – Cm7 – D♭maj7 – E♭
  ii7 – iii7 – IVmaj7 – V

Part 2 (0:09)

• Fm7 – D♭ – B♭m7 – E♭ – Fm7 – D♭ – B♭m – E♭
  vi7 – IV – ii7 – V – vi7 – IV – ii – V

Part 3 (0:28)

• Fm7 – D♭ – B♭m – E♭ – Fm7 – D♭ – Bm7 – E♭
  vi7 – IV – ii – V – vi7 – IV – #ii7 – V

Part 4 (0:46)

• B♭m7 – Cm7 – D♭maj7 – E♭ – B♭m7 – Cm7 – D♭ – E♭
  ii7 – iii7 – IVmaj7 – V – ii7 – iii7 – IV – V

Part 5 (1:05)

• A♭ – D♭ – Cm7 (×4)
  I – IV – iii7

Part 6 (1:23)

• B♭m7 – E♭/B♭ (×3)
  ii7 – V⁶₄
• B♭m7 – E♭7/D♭
  ii7 – V⁴₂

Part 7 (1:42)

• Fm – D♭ – B♭m7 – E♭ – Fm7 – D♭ – B♭m – E♭
  vi – IV – ii7 – V – vi7 – IV – ii – V

Part 8 (2:00)

• Fm7 – D♭ – B♭m – E♭ – Fm7 – D♭ – B♭m7 – E♭
  vi7 – IV – ii – V – vi7 – IV – ii7 – V

Part 9 (2:19)

Same chords as Part 4 (0:46).

Part 10 (2:38)

Same chords as Part 5 (1:05).

Part 11 (2:56)

• B♭m7 – E♭/B♭ – B♭m7 – E♭7/D♭ – F – B♭ – E♭
  ii7 – V⁶₄ – ii7 – V⁴₂ – VI – II – V

Part 12 (3:14)

• A♭ – F – B♭ – E♭ – A♭ – F – E♭ – A♭ – Fm7/C
  I – VI – II – V – I – VI – V – I – vi⁴₃

Part 13 (3:32)

• Cm7 – B♭m7 – Cm7 – D♭maj7 – E♭ – B♭m7 – Cm7 – D♭ – E♭
  iii7 – ii7 – iii7 – IVmaj7 – V – ii7 – iii7 – IV – V

Part 14 (3:50)

• A♭ – D♭ – Cm7 (×3)
  I – IV – iii7
• A♭ – D♭
  I – IV

Part 15 (4:09)

• Cm7 – A♭ – D♭ (×4)
  iii7 – I – IV

Part 16 (4:27)

• Cm7 – A♭ – D♭ (×5)
  iii7 – I – IV
• Cm7 – A♭
  iii7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭ acts as V/V: it resolves to E♭.

Sources & accuracy

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