It's Only Make Believe by Glen Campbell

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 4

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse

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.

Key changes

• Verse 2 moves to D♭ major.
• Verse 3 moves to D major.

Section by section

Intro

• C – Am – F – G – C – Gsus4 – G
  I – vi – IV – V – I – Vsus4 – V

Verse 1

• C – Am
  I – vi
• F – G (×2)
  IV – V
• C – F – G
  I – IV – V
• F – C (×2)
  IV – I
• A♭7
  bVI7

Verse 2

• D♭ – B♭m
  I – vi
• G♭ – A♭ (×2)
  IV – V
• D♭ – G♭ – A♭
  I – IV – V
• G♭ – D♭ (×2)
  IV – I
• A7
  #V7

Verse 3

• D – Bm
  I – vi
• G – A (×2)
  IV – V
• D – G – A
  I – IV – V
• G – D (×3)
  IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0623, 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.