Make a Little Magic by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Verse → Solo → Pre-Chorus → Verse

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

• F – Fsus4 – Fsus2 – F – B♭ – F – Fsus4 – Fsus2 – F – C9sus4
  I – Isus4 – Isus2 – I – IV – I – Isus4 – Isus2 – I – V9sus4

Verse 1

• F – F/A – B♭sus2 – Csus4 (×8)
  I – I⁶ – IVsus2 – Vsus4

Pre-Chorus 1

• C
  V
• B♭ – F (×2)
  IV – I
• Am7 – Dm – Gm – Csus4 – C – Gm – C
  iii7 – vi – ii – Vsus4 – V – ii – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• F – B♭sus2 – Csus4 (×4)
  I – IVsus2 – Vsus4

Pre-Chorus 2

• C
  V
• B♭ – F (×2)
  IV – I
• Am7 – Dm – Gm – Csus4 – C – C7sus4
  iii7 – vi – ii – Vsus4 – V – V7sus4

Verse 3

• F – F/A – B♭sus2 – Csus4 (×22)
  I – I⁶ – IVsus2 – Vsus4
• F – F/A
  I – I⁶

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0859, 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.