My Generation by The Who

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse → Verse → Intro → Verse → Outro → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. 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.

Key changes

• Verse 4 moves to A major.
• Intro 2 moves to B♭ major.
• Outro 1 moves to C major.

Section by section

Intro 1

• G – G7/F (×2)
  I – I⁴₂

Verse 1

• G – G7/F (×10)
  I – I⁴₂

Verse 2

• G – G7/F (×6)
  I – I⁴₂

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Verse 4

• A – A7/G (×8)
  I – I⁴₂

Intro 2

• B♭ – B♭7/A♭ (×2)
  I – I⁴₂

Verse 5

• B♭ – B♭7/A♭ (×8)
  I – I⁴₂

Outro 1

• C – C7/B♭ (×18)
  I – I⁴₂

Outro 2

• C
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. Expert by-ear harmonic analysis of the original recording, shown on this page.
• Cross-check: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by David Temperley. Independent by-ear analysis of the same recording. The two analysts agree on the chord (root and major/minor) for 67% of the song.
• Not verified: the two RS 200 analysts differ in places (see their agreement above).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.