Just Can't Wait by The J. Geils Band

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Solo → Verse → 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.

Section by section

Intro

• G – D – G/D – D – C – D – G/D – D (×4)
  I – V – I⁶₄ – V – IV – V – I⁶₄ – V

Verse 1

• G – D – C – Em (×2)
  I – V – IV – vi
• Am – Bm – Em – Am – Bm – C – D
  ii – iii – vi – ii – iii – IV – V

Chorus 1

• G – D – G/D – D – C – D – G/D – D (×2)
  I – V – I⁶₄ – V – IV – V – I⁶₄ – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• G – D – G/D – D – C – D – G/D – D – G – D – G/D – D – C – D – G/D – D♯dim
  I – V – I⁶₄ – V – IV – V – I⁶₄ – V – I – V – I⁶₄ – V – IV – V – I⁶₄ – #v°

Bridge

• Em – D – Em – D – C (×2)
  vi – V – vi – V – IV

Solo

• G – D – G/D – D – C – D – G/D – D (×4)
  I – V – I⁶₄ – V – IV – V – I⁶₄ – V

Verse 3

• Am – Bm – Em – Am – Bm – C – D
  ii – iii – vi – ii – iii – IV – V

Chorus 3

• G – D – G/D – D – C – D – G/D – D (×6)
  I – V – I⁶₄ – V – IV – V – I⁶₄ – V

Outro

• G – C (×3)
  I – IV
• G
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0021, 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.