I've Got Love on My Mind by Natalie Cole

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 19 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse ×2 → Bridge → Outro

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

• Esus4 – E – A♭sus4 – A♭ – A♭sus2 – A♭
  #IIsus4 – #II – Vsus4 – V – Vsus2 – V

Verse 1

• D♭ – Fm7 – G♭ – G♭/A♭ (×3)
  I – iii7 – IV – IV (bass A♭)
• A7 – A♭7 (×3)
  #V7 – V7
• A
  #V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge

• Esus4 – E – F♯sus4 – F♯
  #IIsus4 – #II – #IIIsus4 – #III
• B♭sus4 – B♭ (×2)
  VIsus4 – VI

Outro

• E♭ – Gm7 – A♭ – A♭/B♭ (×16)
  II – #iv7 – V – V (bass B♭)

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Esus4 (#IIsus4) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• E (#II) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• A (#V) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• F♯sus4 (#IIIsus4) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0177, 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.