King of Bloke and Bird by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 11

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). 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 (0:00)

• Em – D – C (×2)
  i – bVII – bVI

Part 2 (0:21)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 3 (0:42)

• A – C (×3)
  IV – bVI
• Em – D
  i – bVII

Part 4 (1:03)

• C – G – C – Am – C – G – C
  bVI – bIII – bVI – iv – bVI – bIII – bVI

Part 5 (1:24)

• Am
  iv
• C – Em – D (×2)
  bVI – i – bVII

Part 6 (1:45)

• C – Em – D (×2)
  bVI – i – bVII

Part 7 (2:07)

• C – A (×3)
  bVI – IV
• C
  bVI

Part 8 (2:28)

• Em – D – C – G – C – Am – C
  i – bVII – bVI – bIII – bVI – iv – bVI

Part 9 (2:49)

• G – C – Am – C (×2)
  bIII – bVI – iv – bVI

Part 10 (3:10)

• G – C – Am – C – Em – D – C
  bIII – bVI – iv – bVI – i – bVII – bVI

Part 11 (3:31)

• Em – D – C – Em
  i – bVII – bVI – i

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, E major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Intensive Care, 2005), 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 (Intensive Care, 2005), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• 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.