People Get Ready by Jeff Beck

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 13

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

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.

Key changes

• Solo 3 moves to E♭ major.

Section by section

Intro

• D – D/F♯ – F♯m – G – Dsus2 – D – D/F♯ – F♯m – A9sus4 – D
  I – I⁶ – iii – IV – Isus2 – I – I⁶ – iii – V9sus4 – I

Solo 1

• D – Bm – G (×3)
  I – vi – IV
• D – Bm – Em – A9sus4 – D
  I – vi – ii – V9sus4 – I

Verse 1

• D – Bm – G – Dsus2
  I – vi – IV – Isus2
• D – Bm – G (×2)
  I – vi – IV
• Dsus2 – D – Bm – Em – A9sus4 – D
  Isus2 – I – vi – ii – V9sus4 – I

Transition 1

• D – Bm – G – D
  I – vi – IV – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo 2

• D – Bm – G – Dsus2
  I – vi – IV – Isus2
• D – Bm – G (×2)
  I – vi – IV
• Dsus2 – D – Bm – Em – A9sus4 – D
  Isus2 – I – vi – ii – V9sus4 – I

Transition 2

• D – Bm – G (×2)
  I – vi – IV
• D
  I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Transition 3

• D – Bm – G – D – E♭ – Cm – A♭ – E♭
  I – vi – IV – I – bII – bvii – bV – bII

Solo 3

• E♭ – Cm – A♭ (×3)
  I – vi – IV
• E♭ – Cm – Fm – B♭9sus4 – E♭
  I – vi – ii – V9sus4 – I

Solo 4

Same chords as Solo 3.

Solo 5

Same chords as Solo 3.

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0698, 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.