My Thang by James Brown

Overview

Key: F minor · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 8

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

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

• B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – C7
  IV – bIII – IV – V7
• Fm – Fm7/A♭ – B♭ (×4)
  i – i⁶₅ – IV

Verse 1

• Fm7
  i7

Chorus 1

• Fm7 – B♭7/F (×8)
  i7 – IV⁴₃

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• Fm7 – B♭7/F (×32)
  i7 – IV⁴₃

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭ (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, F major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0490, 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.