Papa's Got a Brand New Bag by James Brown

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Transition → Verse ×2 → Transition

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. 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

• B7
  V7

Verse 1

• E7
  I7
• A7 – E7 – B7 (×2)
  IV7 – I7 – V7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Transition 1

• E7
  I7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Transition 2

Same chords as Transition 1.

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by Trevor de Clercq. Expert by-ear harmonic analysis of the original recording, shown on this page.
• Cross-check: the Rock Corpus RS 200 (de Clercq & Temperley, 2011), analysis by David Temperley. Independent by-ear analysis of the same recording. The two analysts agree on the chord (root and major/minor) for 63% of the song.
• Not verified: the two RS 200 analysts differ in places (see their agreement above).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.