Let's Go Get Stoned by Ray Charles

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Chorus → Verse → Verse → Bridge → 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

• A♭7sus4
  V7sus4

Chorus 1

• D♭ – F7 – B♭7 – G♭6 – D♭7 – G♭ – A♭9sus4 – D♭ – A♭7 (×2)
  I – III7 – VI7 – IV6 – I7 – IV – V9sus4 – I – V7

Verse 1

• D♭7 – G♭7 (×2)
  I7 – IV7
• D♭7 – F7 – B♭m7 – D♭7/A♭ – G♭ – E♭7♭9/G – A♭7sus4 – A♭9sus4 – D♭7 – A♭7
  I7 – III7 – vi7 – I⁴₃ – IV – II7b9 (bass G) – V7sus4 – V9sus4 – I7 – V7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge

• G♭7 – B♭m7 – G♭7 – D♭7 – G♭7 – B♭m7 – G♭7 – E♭7 – A♭7
  IV7 – vi7 – IV7 – I7 – IV7 – vi7 – IV7 – II7 – V7

Chorus 2

• D♭ – F7 – B♭7 – G♭6 – D♭7 – G♭ – A♭9sus4 – D♭ – A♭7 (×4)
  I – III7 – VI7 – IV6 – I7 – IV – V9sus4 – I – V7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to B♭m7.
• D♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to G♭.
• D♭7/A♭ acts as V/IV: it resolves to G♭.
• E♭7♭9/G acts as V/V: it resolves to A♭7sus4.
• E♭7 acts as V/V: it resolves to A♭7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0890, 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.