Lambada by Kaoma

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Solo → Verse → Verse → Instrumental → Verse → Instrumental → 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

• Dm
  i

Solo

• Dm – B♭ – C – F (×2)
  i – bVI – bVII – bIII
• Gm – C – Dm (×2)
  iv – bVII – i

Verse 1

• Dm – B♭ – C – F (×2)
  i – bVI – bVII – bIII
• Gm – C – Dm (×2)
  iv – bVII – i

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Instrumental 1

• Dm – F (×2)
  i – bIII
• Gm – C – Dm (×2)
  iv – bVII – i

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Instrumental 2

Same chords as Instrumental 1.

Outro

• Dm – F (×9)
  i – bIII
• Dm
  i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1270, 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.