Name by Goo Goo Dolls

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 21

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 (0:00)

• A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69 – Dmaj9 – D69
  I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IV69

Part 2 (0:12)

• A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E – D69 – Dmaj7 – Dsus2 – D69 – Dmaj9
  I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj7 – IVsus2 – IV69 – IVmaj9

Part 3 (0:24)

• D69 – A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69
  IV69 – I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69

Part 4 (0:37)

• Dmaj9 – D69 – A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69
  IVmaj9 – IV69 – I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69

Part 5 (0:50)

• Dmaj9 – D69 – A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2
  IVmaj9 – IV69 – I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2

Part 6 (1:02)

• D69 – Dmaj9 – D69 – F♯m7 – Esus4 – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – Esus4 – A/E
  IV69 – IVmaj9 – IV69 – vi7 – Vsus4 – IVsus2 – vi7 – Vsus4 – I⁶₄

Part 7 (1:14)

• Dsus2
  IVsus2
• A/E – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – Esus4 (×2)
  I⁶₄ – IVsus2 – vi7 – Vsus4

Part 8 (1:26)

• Dsus2 – A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E – D69
  IVsus2 – I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69

Part 9 (1:39)

• Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69 – Dmaj9 – D69 – A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E
  IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IV69 – I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E)

Part 10 (1:52)

• D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69 – Dmaj9 – D69 – A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7
  IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IV69 – I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7

Part 11 (2:04)

• A5/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69 – Dmaj9 – D69 – A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2
  I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IV69 – I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2

Part 12 (2:16)

• F♯m7 – A5/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69 – Dmaj9 – D69 – F♯m7 – Esus4 – Dsus2
  vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IV69 – vi7 – Vsus4 – IVsus2

Part 13 (2:28)

• F♯m7 – Esus4 – A/E – Dsus2 – Aadd11/D – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – Esus4 – A/E
  vi7 – Vsus4 – I⁶₄ – IVsus2 – Iadd11 (bass D) – IVsus2 – vi7 – Vsus4 – I⁶₄

Part 14 (2:40)

• Dsus2 – F♯m7 – Esus4 – Dsus2 – A5
  IVsus2 – vi7 – Vsus4 – IVsus2 – I5

Part 15 (2:53)

• Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69 – Dmaj9 – D69 – A5
  Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I⁶₄ – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IV69 – I5

Part 16 (3:05)

• Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69 – Dmaj9 – D69 – F♯m7
  Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IV69 – vi7

Part 17 (3:18)

• Esus4 – Dsus2 – F♯m7 (×2)
  Vsus4 – IVsus2 – vi7

Part 18 (3:31)

Same chords as Part 17 (3:18).

Part 19 (3:44)

• Esus4 – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – Esus4 – Dsus2
  Vsus4 – IVsus2 – vi7 – Vsus4 – IVsus2

Part 20 (3:56)

• A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – Dsus2 – D69
  I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IVsus2 – IV69

Part 21 (4:08)

• Dmaj9 – D69 – A5 – Amaj7(no3)/G# – Dsus2 – F♯m7 – A5/E – D69 – Dmaj9 – D – A
  IVmaj9 – IV69 – I5 – Imaj7(no3) (bass G♯) – IVsus2 – vi7 – I5 (bass E) – IV69 – IVmaj9 – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (A Boy Named Goo), 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 (A Boy Named Goo), 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.