Monsoon by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 12

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)

• F – Gm
  I – ii

Part 2 (0:07)

• C – B♭ – F – Dm
  V – IV – I – vi

Part 3 (0:27)

• C – B♭ – F – Gm
  V – IV – I – ii

Part 4 (0:46)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:27).

Part 5 (1:05)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:27).

Part 6 (1:25)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:07).

Part 7 (1:44)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:27).

Part 8 (2:03)

• C – B♭ – F – E♭ – F
  V – IV – I – bVII – I

Part 9 (2:23)

• E♭ – C – F – Gm
  bVII – V – I – ii

Part 10 (2:42)

• C – B♭ – F
  V – IV – I

Part 11 (3:01)

• Gm – C – B♭ – F
  ii – V – IV – I

Part 12 (3:20)

• B♭ – C – B♭ – F
  IV – V – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.

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.