Living It Down by Freddy Fender

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 4

Form: Intro → Chorus → Verse → 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

• C – F – C – G7
  I – IV – I – V7

Chorus 1

• C – C7 – F – C – D7 – Dm7 – G7 – C – C7 – F – F♯dim7 – C/G – G7 – F – C – G7
  I – I7 – IV – I – II7 – ii7 – V7 – I – I7 – IV – #iv°7 – I⁶₄ – V7 – IV – I – V7

Verse

• C – C7 – F – C – D7 – Dm7 – G7 – C – C7 – F – F♯dim7 – C/G – G7 – F – C
  I – I7 – IV – I – II7 – ii7 – V7 – I – I7 – IV – #iv°7 – I⁶₄ – V7 – IV – I

Chorus 2

• C – C7 – F – C – D7 – Dm7 – G7 – C – C7 – F – F♯dim7 – C/G – G7 – F – C
  I – I7 – IV – I – II7 – ii7 – V7 – I – I7 – IV – #iv°7 – I⁶₄ – V7 – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to F.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0346, 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.