No Regrets by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 16

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)

• Cm7 – B♭ (×2)
  i7 – bVII

Part 2 (0:19)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 3 (0:38)

• Gm – G – Fm – A♭ – Gm – G – Fm – B♭
  v – V – iv – bVI – v – V – iv – bVII

Part 4 (0:56)

• Fm – Cm – Fm – B♭
  iv – i – iv – bVII

Part 5 (1:15)

• Fm – Cm – Ddim – G
  iv – i – ii° – V

Part 6 (1:34)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 7 (1:53)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 8 (2:12)

• Gm – G – Fm – A♭ – Gm – G – Fm
  v – V – iv – bVI – v – V – iv

Part 9 (2:31)

• B♭ – Fm – Cm – Fm
  bVII – iv – i – iv

Part 10 (2:50)

• B♭ – Fm – Cm – Ddim
  bVII – iv – i – ii°

Part 11 (3:08)

• G – A♭ – F/A – A♭
  V – bVI – IV⁶ – bVI

Part 12 (3:27)

• F/A – G/B – Fm – Cm – Fm
  IV⁶ – V⁶ – iv – i – iv

Part 13 (3:46)

Same chords as Part 10 (2:50).

Part 14 (4:05)

• G – Cm
  V – i

Part 15 (4:24)

• D – G – Cm
  II – V – i

Part 16 (4:43)

• D – G – Cm (×2)
  II – V – i
• D – G
  II – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F/A (IV⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.
• D acts as V/V: it resolves to G.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), 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 (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), 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.