Natural Mystic by Bob Marley

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 14

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 (0:04)

• Am
  i

Part 2 (0:19)

• Dm – G – Am
  iv – bVII – i

Part 3 (0:33)

• Dm – G
  iv – bVII
• Am – Dm (×2)
  i – iv

Part 4 (0:48)

• Am – Dm (×2)
  i – iv
• G
  bVII
• Am – Dm (×2)
  i – iv

Part 5 (1:03)

• G – Am – Dm – G – Am
  bVII – i – iv – bVII – i

Part 6 (1:17)

• Dm – Am (×3)
  iv – i
• Dm – G
  iv – bVII

Part 7 (1:32)

• Am – Dm (×2)
  i – iv
• G – Am – Dm – Am
  bVII – i – iv – i

Part 8 (1:46)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:19).

Part 9 (2:01)

• Dm – Am – Dm
  iv – i – iv

Part 10 (2:16)

Same chords as Part 4 (0:48).

Part 11 (2:30)

• G
  bVII
• Am – Dm (×2)
  i – iv
• G – Am
  bVII – i

Part 12 (2:45)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:19).

Part 13 (2:59)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:04).

Part 14 (3:14)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:04).

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

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