One Last Kiss by The J. Geils Band

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Solo → Chorus → Transition → Solo

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

• Dm – C – B♭ – C (×2)
  i – bVII – bVI – bVII

Verse 1

• Dm – B♭ – F – G (×2)
  i – bVI – bIII – IV
• Dm – Gm (×2)
  i – iv
• B♭
  bVI

Chorus 1

• C – Dm (×3)
  bVII – i
• B♭ – C – C/B♭
  bVI – bVII – bVII (bass B♭)

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 1

• Dm – C – B♭ – C (×2)
  i – bVII – bVI – bVII

Solo 1

• Dm – Gm (×3)
  i – iv
• Dm – B♭
  i – bVI

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 2

Same chords as Transition 1.

Solo 2

• Dm – B♭ (×9)
  i – bVI
• Dm
  i

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0478, 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.