Losing You by Brenda Lee

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 18 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Outro

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

• E – C♯m – A – B
  I – vi – IV – V

Verse 1

• E – C♯m – F♯m – B7 – A/E – E – C♯m – Amaj7 – F♯m7 – B – A♯dim – B – E – C♯m – F♯m – B7 – A/E – E – C♯m – Amaj7 – B – E
  I – vi – ii – V7 – IV⁶₄ – I – vi – IVmaj7 – ii7 – V – #iv° – V – I – vi – ii – V7 – IV⁶₄ – I – vi – IVmaj7 – V – I

Bridge

• C – G/B – Am – Em/G – F – F♯m – B – E – E/D♯ – C♯m – C♯m/B – Amaj7 – A/B – F♯m – B
  bVI – bIII⁶ – iv – i⁶ – bII – ii – V – I – I (bass D♯) – vi – vi (bass B) – IVmaj7 – IV (bass B) – ii – V

Verse 2

• E – C♯m – F♯m – B7 – A/E – E – C♯m – Amaj7 – B (×2)
  I – vi – ii – V7 – IV⁶₄ – I – vi – IVmaj7 – V

Outro

• E – C♯m – A – E
  I – vi – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• G/B (bIII⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• Am (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• Em/G (i⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0371, 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.