Just a Girl by No Doubt

Overview

Key: B minor · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 8

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 (0:27)

• Bm – A
  i – bVII

Part 2 (0:29)

• G – A – Bm – A (×3)
  bVI – bVII – i – bVII
• G – A – G5
  bVI – bVII – bVI5

Part 3 (0:47)

• C5
  bII5
• Bm – A – G – A (×3)
  i – bVII – bVI – bVII
• Bm – A
  i – bVII

Part 4 (1:27)

• G – A – Bm – A (×2)
  bVI – bVII – i – bVII
• G – A – G5 – C5 – Bm – A
  bVI – bVII – bVI5 – bII5 – i – bVII

Part 5 (1:45)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:29).

Part 6 (2:02)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:47).

Part 7 (2:38)

• G – A – Bm – A (×4)
  bVI – bVII – i – bVII

Part 8 (2:56)

• G – A
  bVI – bVII
• G5 – C5 (×3)
  bVI5 – bII5
• Bm
  i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

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