Just When I Needed You Most by Randy Vanwarmer

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Transition → Verse → Transition → Solo → Verse → 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

• A – A7 – A6 (×2)
  I – I7 – I6
• A
  I

Verse 1

• A – A7 – A6 – D/A – D – A – Bm – A/E – E – A – A7 – A6 – D/A – D – A – E – A – E/B – A/C♯
  I – I7 – I6 – IV⁶₄ – IV – I – ii – I⁶₄ – V – I – I7 – I6 – IV⁶₄ – IV – I – V – I – V⁶₄ – I⁶

Transition 1

• D – A – E7 – A – A7
  IV – I – V7 – I – I7

Verse 2

• A – A7 – A6 – A – D – A – Bm – E – A – A7 – A6 – D/A – D – A – E – A – E/B – A/C♯
  I – I7 – I6 – I – IV – I – ii – V – I – I7 – I6 – IV⁶₄ – IV – I – V – I – V⁶₄ – I⁶

Transition 2

Same chords as Transition 1.

Solo

• A – A7 – A6 – D/A – D – A – Bm – E – A – A7 – A6 – D/A – D – A – E7 – A
  I – I7 – I6 – IV⁶₄ – IV – I – ii – V – I – I7 – I6 – IV⁶₄ – IV – I – V7 – I

Verse 3

• A – A7 – A6 – D/A – D – A – Bm – E – A – A7 – A6 – D/A
  I – I7 – I6 – IV⁶₄ – IV – I – ii – V – I – I7 – I6 – IV⁶₄
• D – A – E – A – E/B – A/C♯ (×2)
  IV – I – V – I – V⁶₄ – I⁶
• D – A – E
  IV – I – V

Outro

• A – A7 – A6 – A
  I – I7 – I6 – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0149, 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.