Kind of a Drag by The Buckinghams

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus

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 – Gaug – G6 – D7
  I – I+ – I6 – V7

Verse 1

• Am – D – Am – D – G (×2)
  ii – V – ii – V – I

Chorus 1

• C – Caug – C6 – C7 – F – Fm
  IV – IV+ – IV6 – IV7 – bVII – bvii
• C – B♭ (×2)
  IV – bIII
• C – G
  IV – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• Am – D – Am – D – G (×2)
  ii – V – ii – V – I

Chorus 3

• C – Caug – C6 – C7 – F – Fm
  IV – IV+ – IV6 – IV7 – bVII – bvii
• C – B♭ (×4)
  IV – bIII

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• B♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0369, 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.