Last Resort by Papa Roach

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 19

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 (0:05)

• E5 – D5 – C5
  I5 – bVII5 – bVI5

Part 2 (0:08)

• B5 – D5 – E5 – D5 – C5 – B5 – D5 – E5 – D – C5
  V5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVII5 – bVI5 – V5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVII – bVI5

Part 3 (0:19)

• B5 – D5 – E5 – D5 – C5 (×2)
  V5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVII5 – bVI5

Part 4 (0:30)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:19).

Part 5 (0:40)

• B5
  V5
• D5 – E5 – C5 (×2)
  bVII5 – I5 – bVI5
• D5
  bVII5

Part 6 (0:51)

• E5 – D5 – C5 – B5 – D5 – E5 – D5 – C5
  I5 – bVII5 – bVI5 – V5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVII5 – bVI5

Part 7 (1:02)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:19).

Part 8 (1:12)

• B5 – D5 – E5 – D5 – C5 – B5 – D5 – E5 – C5 – D5
  V5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVII5 – bVI5 – V5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5

Part 9 (1:23)

• E5 – C5 – D5 – E5 – C5 – G5
  I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVI5 – bIII5

Part 10 (1:33)

• B5 – E5 – C5 – G5 – B5 – E5 – G5 – C5
  V5 – I5 – bVI5 – bIII5 – V5 – I5 – bIII5 – bVI5

Part 11 (1:44)

• B5 – E5 – G5 – C5 – B5 – E5 – D5 – C5
  V5 – I5 – bIII5 – bVI5 – V5 – I5 – bVII5 – bVI5

Part 12 (1:55)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:19).

Part 13 (2:05)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:19).

Part 14 (2:16)

Same chords as Part 8 (1:12).

Part 15 (2:26)

Same chords as Part 9 (1:23).

Part 16 (2:37)

• B5 – E5 – C5 – G5 – B5 – E5 – C5 – D5
  V5 – I5 – bVI5 – bIII5 – V5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5

Part 17 (2:48)

• E5 – C5 – D5 (×2)
  I5 – bVI5 – bVII5

Part 18 (2:58)

Same chords as Part 17 (2:48).

Part 19 (3:09)

• E5 – C5 – D5 – E5
  I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – I5

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Infest), 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 (Infest), 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.