Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down

Overview

Key: B minor · Chords used: 12 · Sections: 13

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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)

• Bm – G – Asus2
  i – bVI – bVIIsus2

Part 2 (0:05)

• Bm – G – Asus2 (×2)
  i – bVI – bVIIsus2
• Bm – G – A7sus2 – Bm – G – Asus2
  i – bVI – bVII7sus2 – i – bVI – bVIIsus2

Part 3 (0:24)

• Bm – G – Asus2 (×2)
  i – bVI – bVIIsus2
• Bm – G – A7sus2 – Bm – G – A
  i – bVI – bVII7sus2 – i – bVI – bVII

Part 4 (0:44)

• Bm – G – A – Bm – G – Asus2 – Bm – G – A7sus2 – Bm – G – Asus2
  i – bVI – bVII – i – bVI – bVIIsus2 – i – bVI – bVII7sus2 – i – bVI – bVIIsus2

Part 5 (1:03)

• Bm – G – A7sus2 – B5 – G5 – A5 – B5 – E5 – F♯5 – B5 – G5 – A5
  i – bVI – bVII7sus2 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – I5 – IV5 – V5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5

Part 6 (1:22)

• B5 – E5 – F♯5
  I5 – IV5 – V5
• Bm – G – A (×2)
  i – bVI – bVII
• Bm – G – Asus2
  i – bVI – bVIIsus2

Part 7 (1:42)

• Bm – G6/E – A13(no3)/F# – Bm – G – Asus2 – Bm – G6/E – A13(no3)/F# – B5 – G5 – A5
  i – bVI6 (bass E) – bVII13(no3) (bass F♯) – i – bVI – bVIIsus2 – i – bVI6 (bass E) – bVII13(no3) (bass F♯) – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5

Part 8 (2:01)

• B5 – E5 – F♯5 – B5 – G5 – A5 (×2)
  I5 – IV5 – V5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5

Part 9 (2:21)

• B5 – E5 – F♯5 – B5 – G5 – A5 – B5 – E5 – F♯5 – Bm – A – G
  I5 – IV5 – V5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – I5 – IV5 – V5 – i – bVII – bVI

Part 10 (2:40)

• Bm – A – G (×4)
  i – bVII – bVI

Part 11 (2:59)

• Bm – A – G – B5 – G5 – A5 – B5 – E5 – F♯5 – B5 – G5 – A5
  i – bVII – bVI – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – I5 – IV5 – V5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5

Part 12 (3:19)

Same chords as Part 8 (2:01).

Part 13 (3:38)

• B5 – E5 – F♯5 – B5
  I5 – IV5 – V5 – I5

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (The Better Life), 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 (The Better Life), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.