Lump by The Presidents of the United States of America

Overview

Key: D♭ minor · Chords used: 5 · 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 (0:13)

• D♭5 – G♭5 – D♭5 – G♭
  I5 – IV5 – I5 – IV

Part 2 (0:27)

• D♭5 – C♭5 – E5 (×2)
  I5 – bVII5 – #II5

Part 3 (0:41)

• D♭5 – G♭5 (×2)
  I5 – IV5

Part 4 (0:54)

• D♭5 – G♭5 – C♭5 – E5 – D♭5 – G♭5 – C♭5
  I5 – IV5 – bVII5 – #II5 – I5 – IV5 – bVII5

Part 5 (1:06)

• D♭5 – G♭5 – C♭5 – D♭5 – C♭5 – E5 – C♭5
  I5 – IV5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVII5 – #II5 – bVII5

Part 6 (1:19)

• E5 – D♭5 – C♭5 (×2)
  #II5 – I5 – bVII5
• E5
  #II5

Part 7 (1:33)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:41).

Part 8 (1:47)

• D♭5 – G♭5 – C♭5 (×2)
  I5 – IV5 – bVII5

Part 9 (2:00)

• D♭5 – G♭5 – C♭5 – D♭5
  I5 – IV5 – bVII5 – I5

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♭ (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Presidents Of The United States Of America), 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 (Presidents Of The United States Of America), 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.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.