Let's Get Serious by Jermaine Jackson

Overview

Key: B♭ minor · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Interlude → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus

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

• B♭m7 – E♭m7 (×3)
  i7 – iv7
• B♭m7
  i7

Verse 1

• B♭m7 – E♭m7 (×2)
  i7 – iv7
• B♭m7
  i7

Pre-Chorus 1

• E♭m7 – D♭/F – E♭m/G♭ – E♭7/G – A♭7sus4 – A♭7 – E♭m7 – D♭/F – E♭m/G♭ – E♭7/G – A♭7sus4 – F7/A
  iv7 – bIII⁶ – iv⁶ – IV⁶₅ – bVII7sus4 – bVII7 – iv7 – bIII⁶ – iv⁶ – IV⁶₅ – bVII7sus4 – V⁶₅

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 1

• B♭m7 – E♭m7 – D♭ – A♭/C – Fm7 (×2)
  i7 – iv7 – bIII – bVII⁶ – v7
• B♭m7
  i7

Bridge

• C♭maj7 – B♭m7 (×3)
  bIImaj7 – i7
• A♭ – G♭maj7 – F7
  bVII – bVImaj7 – V7

Interlude

• B♭m7 – E♭m7 – B♭m7
  i7 – iv7 – i7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 3

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

• B♭m7 – E♭m7 – D♭ – A♭/C – Fm7 (×7)
  i7 – iv7 – bIII – bVII⁶ – v7
• B♭m7
  i7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭7/G acts as V/bVII: it resolves to A♭7sus4.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0811, 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.