Love Will Keep Us Together by Neil Sedaka

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 24 · Sections: 9

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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)

• G – Am7 – B♭dim – D7/A – G – Am7 – Bm7 – B♭7 – Bm9 – D7/A – G – Dm/E♭
  I – ii7 – biii° – V⁴₃ – I – ii7 – iii7 – bIII7 – iii9 – V⁴₃ – I – v (bass E♭)

Part 2 (0:23)

• E7 – C – Cm – G
  VI7 – IV – iv – I

Part 3 (0:49)

• Emaj7 – G – G7 – C – Bm – D7 – G – B♭dim – D7 – G
  VImaj7 – I – I7 – IV – iii – V7 – I – biii° – V7 – I

Part 4 (1:15)

• Dm/E♭ – E7 – C – Cm
  v (bass E♭) – VI7 – IV – iv

Part 5 (1:40)

• G/B – Emaj7 – G – G7 – C – D7 – F
  I⁶ – VImaj7 – I – I7 – IV – V7 – bVII

Part 6 (2:04)

• Cm7
  iv7
• G – E♭ (×2)
  I – bVI
• D – G – E♭ – C7 – E♭add9
  V – I – bVI – IV7 – bVIadd9

Part 7 (2:29)

• Am7 – D7 – Bm – B♭7 – Am7 – A♭m7 – G – Dm/E♭
  ii7 – V7 – iii – bIII7 – ii7 – bii7 – I – v (bass E♭)

Part 8 (2:53)

• E7 – C – Cm – G – G7
  VI7 – IV – iv – I – I7

Part 9 (3:18)

• Bm – Am – D7
  iii – ii – V7
• G – Am7 – B♭dim – D7/A (×2)
  I – ii7 – biii° – V⁴₃
• G
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Dm/E♭ (v (bass E♭)) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Cm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• F (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Cm7 (iv7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• E♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• E♭add9 (bVIadd9) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• G7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to C.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Neil Sedaka - Tuneweaver), 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 (Neil Sedaka - Tuneweaver), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• 5 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.