It Takes Two by Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 11

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

Pre-Verse 1

• B♭
  I

Verse 1

• B♭ – B♭7
  I – I7

Chorus 1

• E♭ – F – B♭ – E♭ – F
  IV – V – I – IV – V

Pre-Verse 2

Same chords as Pre-Verse 1.

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Pre-Verse 3

Same chords as Pre-Verse 1.

Interlude

• B♭ – B♭7 – E♭7 – F
  I – I7 – IV7 – V

Pre-Verse 4

Same chords as Pre-Verse 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

• E♭ – F – B♭ (×2)
  IV – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0280, 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.