Let Love Be Your Energy by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 13

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 (0:06)

• E♭ – B♭ (×4)
  I – V
• D♭
  bVII
• E♭ – B♭ (×2)
  I – V

Part 2 (0:27)

• F♯ – F♯7 – D♯m – Bm (×3)
  #II – #II7 – #vii – #v
• G♯ – B7
  #III – #V7

Part 3 (0:49)

• D♯ – G♯ – F♯ (×2)
  #VII – #III – #II

Part 4 (1:11)

• D♯
  #VII
• E♭ – B♭ (×4)
  I – V
• D♭ – E♭
  bVII – I

Part 5 (1:32)

• B♭ – E♭ – B♭
  V – I – V
• F♯ – F♯7 – D♯m – Bm (×3)
  #II – #II7 – #vii – #v
• G♯
  #III

Part 6 (1:54)

• B7 – D♯ – G♯ – F♯ – D♯ – G♯
  #V7 – #VII – #III – #II – #VII – #III

Part 7 (2:15)

• F♯ – D♯ – G♯ (×2)
  #II – #VII – #III

Part 8 (2:37)

• F♯ – D♯
  #II – #VII
• Fm – A♭ (×3)
  ii – IV

Part 9 (2:58)

• D♯ – G♯ – F♯ – D♯ – G♯ – C♯
  #VII – #III – #II – #VII – #III – #VI

Part 10 (3:20)

Same chords as Part 9 (2:58).

Part 11 (3:42)

Same chords as Part 9 (2:58).

Part 12 (4:03)

Same chords as Part 9 (2:58).

Part 13 (4:25)

• D♯ – G♯ – F♯ (×2)
  #VII – #III – #II
• D♯ – G♯
  #VII – #III

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• F♯ (#II) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• D♯m (#vii) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• C♯ (#VI) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.

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.