Jump (for My Love) by The Pointer Sisters

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 23 · Sections: 13

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Transition → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Bridge → Chorus → 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.

Key changes

• Verse 1 moves to G major.
• Chorus 1 moves to A major.
• Transition moves to G major.
• Chorus 2 moves to A major.
• Outro moves to F major.

Section by section

Intro

• A – A/C♯ – D – E/G♯ – A – G
  I – I⁶ – IV – V⁶ – I – bVII

Verse 1

• G – F/G (×4)
  I – bVII (bass G)

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 1

• F/C – G/C – C/E – F – Dm7 – G/B – E/B – E
  bVII⁶₄ – I (bass C) – IV⁶ – bVII – v7 – I⁶ – VI⁶₄ – VI

Chorus 1

• A – A/C♯ – D – E/G♯ (×8)
  I – I⁶ – IV – V⁶
• A
  I

Transition

• G
  I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge 1

• A – E/A (×2)
  I – V (bass A)
• C – C/G – C6 – C/G
  bIII – bIII⁶₄ – bIII6 – bIII⁶₄
• G/F – Fmaj7 (×2)
  bVII (bass F) – bVImaj7
• Em7
  v7

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Chorus 3

• A – A/C♯ – D – E/G♯ (×4)
  I – I⁶ – IV – V⁶
• A
  I
• F – F/A – B♭ – C/E (×4)
  bVI – bVI⁶ – bII – bIII⁶
• F
  bVI

Outro

• F – F/A – B♭ – C/E (×8)
  I – I⁶ – IV – V⁶
• F
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• F/G (bVII (bass G)) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• F/C (bVII⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• F (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Dm7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• C (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• C/G (bIII⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• C6 (bIII6) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• G/F (bVII (bass F)) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Fmaj7 (bVImaj7) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Em7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• F (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• F/A (bVI⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• C/E (bIII⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0448, 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.