Jamming by Bob Marley

Overview

Key: F♯ minor · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 13

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 (0:03)

• E9 – G – F♯m – Bm7 – E9 – G – F♯m
  bVII9 – bII – i – iv7 – bVII9 – bII – i

Part 2 (0:16)

• Bm – E7 – G – F♯m (×2)
  iv – bVII7 – bII – i
• Bm – E
  iv – bVII

Part 3 (0:34)

• Bm – E – G – F♯m
  iv – bVII – bII – i
• Bm – E (×2)
  iv – bVII
• G – F♯m – Bm
  bII – i – iv

Part 4 (0:49)

• E7 – G – F♯m – Bm – E7 – G – F♯m7 – Bm – E
  bVII7 – bII – i – iv – bVII7 – bII – i7 – iv – bVII

Part 5 (1:05)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:34).

Part 6 (1:20)

• E7 – G – F♯m7 – Bm – E7 – G – F♯m – Bm
  bVII7 – bII – i7 – iv – bVII7 – bII – i – iv

Part 7 (1:36)

• Em – Bm (×2)
  bvii – iv
• E7
  bVII7

Part 8 (1:52)

• Bm – E7 – G – F♯m (×2)
  iv – bVII7 – bII – i

Part 9 (2:07)

• Bm7 – E7 – Bm7 – E9 – G – F♯m7
  iv7 – bVII7 – iv7 – bVII9 – bII – i7
• Bm – E7 (×2)
  iv – bVII7
• G – F♯m
  bII – i

Part 10 (2:23)

• Bm – E7 – G – F♯m7 – Bm – E7 – G – F♯m
  iv – bVII7 – bII – i7 – iv – bVII7 – bII – i

Part 11 (2:39)

• Bm7 – E7 – G – F♯m (×2)
  iv7 – bVII7 – bII – i
• Bm7
  iv7

Part 12 (2:56)

• E9 – G – F♯m – Bm7 – E7 – G – F♯m – Bm7
  bVII9 – bII – i – iv7 – bVII7 – bII – i – iv7

Part 13 (3:12)

• E7 – G – F♯m – Bm – E9
  bVII7 – bII – i – iv – bVII9

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

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