Knutsford City Limits by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: B♭ Mixolydian · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 20

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)

• B♭ – B♭sus4 (×2)
  I – Isus4

Part 2 (0:05)

• B♭ – B♭sus4 (×2)
  I – Isus4
• B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭7
  I – IV – I7 – IV – I – IV – I7

Part 3 (0:19)

• E♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 (×2)
  IV – I – IV – I7
• E♭ – G♭
  IV – bVI

Part 4 (0:33)

• E♭ – G♭
  IV – bVI

Part 5 (0:47)

• A♭
  bVII
• B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ (×2)
  I – IV – I7 – IV

Part 6 (1:02)

• B♭ – E♭ – B♭/D – E♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – B♭
  I – IV – I⁶ – IV – I – IV – I7 – IV – I

Part 7 (1:16)

• E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – B♭ (×2)
  IV – I7 – IV – I

Part 8 (1:30)

• E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – G♭
  IV – I7 – IV – I – IV – I7 – IV – bVI

Part 9 (1:44)

• E♭ – G♭ – A♭
  IV – bVI – bVII

Part 10 (1:58)

• B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ (×2)
  I – IV – I7 – IV
• B♭
  I

Part 11 (2:12)

• E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – B♭ (×2)
  IV – I7 – IV – I
• E♭ – B♭7 – E♭
  IV – I7 – IV

Part 12 (2:26)

• B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ (×2)
  I – IV – I7 – IV
• B♭ – E♭
  I – IV

Part 13 (2:40)

• B♭7
  I7
• E♭ – B♭ (×5)
  IV – I

Part 14 (2:54)

• E♭ – B♭ (×4)
  IV – I
• E♭ – G♭ – A♭
  IV – bVI – bVII

Part 15 (3:08)

• B♭ – E♭ – G♭ – A♭ (×2)
  I – IV – bVI – bVII
• B♭ – E♭ – G♭
  I – IV – bVI

Part 16 (3:23)

• A♭
  bVII
• B♭ – E♭ (×2)
  I – IV
• B♭7 – E♭ – B♭ – E♭
  I7 – IV – I – IV

Part 17 (3:37)

• E♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 (×2)
  IV – I – IV – I7
• E♭
  IV

Part 18 (3:51)

• B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ (×2)
  I – IV – I7 – IV
• B♭ – E♭ – B♭7
  I – IV – I7

Part 19 (4:05)

• E♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 (×2)
  IV – I – IV – I7
• E♭ – B♭ – E♭
  IV – I – IV

Part 20 (4:19)

• B♭7 – E♭ – B♭ – E♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – B♭
  I7 – IV – I – IV – I7 – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Sing When You're Winning, 2000), 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 (Sing When You're Winning, 2000), 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.