Love Somebody by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 20

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 (0:00)

• Em – Em7 – Em6 – C
  i – i7 – i6 – bVI

Part 2 (0:12)

• Em – Bm – C – G – B
  i – v – bVI – bIII – V

Part 3 (0:25)

• Em – Em7 – C – G – D
  i – i7 – bVI – bIII – bVII

Part 4 (0:37)

• D – B
  bVII – V

Part 5 (0:50)

• Em – Bm/F♯ – E/G♯ – Am – Em/B – F♯dim7/C – F♯/A♯ – B
  i – v⁶₄ – I⁶ – iv – i⁶₄ – ii°⁴₃ – II⁶ – V

Part 6 (1:02)

• Em – Bm/F♯ – E/G♯ – Am – Em/B – B – E
  i – v⁶₄ – I⁶ – iv – i⁶₄ – V – I

Part 7 (1:15)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 8 (1:28)

• Em – Em7 – C – G – B
  i – i7 – bVI – bIII – V

Part 9 (1:40)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:25).

Part 10 (1:52)

Same chords as Part 4 (0:37).

Part 11 (2:05)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:50).

Part 12 (2:18)

Same chords as Part 6 (1:02).

Part 13 (2:30)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:50).

Part 14 (2:43)

Same chords as Part 6 (1:02).

Part 15 (2:55)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:50).

Part 16 (3:08)

Same chords as Part 6 (1:02).

Part 17 (3:21)

Same chords as Part 5 (0:50).

Part 18 (3:33)

Same chords as Part 6 (1:02).

Part 19 (3:46)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 20 (3:59)

• Em
  i

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E/G♯ (I⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, E major.
• E (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, E major.
• F♯/A♯ acts as V/V: it resolves to B.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Escapology, 2002), 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 (Escapology, 2002), 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.