Santa Monica by Everclear

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 15

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 (0:00)

• G5 – Em7 (×2)
  I5 – vi7
• G5 – E7(no3) – G – G5 – Em7 – G5
  I5 – VI7(no3) – I – I5 – vi7 – I5

Part 2 (0:13)

• Em7 – G5 (×2)
  vi7 – I5
• Em7 – D/A – E/B – C/G – A5 – G5
  vi7 – V⁶₄ – VI⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – II5 – I5

Part 3 (0:26)

• Em7 – G (×3)
  vi7 – I
• Em7
  vi7

Part 4 (0:39)

• D/A – E/B – C/G – A5 – G5 – Em7 – G5 – D/A – E/B – C/G
  V⁶₄ – VI⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – II5 – I5 – vi7 – I5 – V⁶₄ – VI⁶₄ – IV⁶₄

Part 5 (0:52)

• A5 – G5 – Em7 – G – C/G – D/A – G – E/B – D/A
  II5 – I5 – vi7 – I – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I – VI⁶₄ – V⁶₄

Part 6 (1:05)

• C/G – G – D/A – C/G – D/A – G – E/B – D/A – C/G – G5 – Em7
  IV⁶₄ – I – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I – VI⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – I5 – vi7

Part 7 (1:17)

• G5 – Em7 (×2)
  I5 – vi7
• G – Em7 (×2)
  I – vi7
• G
  I

Part 8 (1:30)

• Em7 – G – Em7 – D/A – E/B – C/G – A5 – G – Em7 – G
  vi7 – I – vi7 – V⁶₄ – VI⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – II5 – I – vi7 – I

Part 9 (1:43)

• Em7 – G (×3)
  vi7 – I
• Em7 – D/A – E/B
  vi7 – V⁶₄ – VI⁶₄

Part 10 (1:55)

• C/G – A5
  IV⁶₄ – II5
• G – Em7 (×2)
  I – vi7
• D/A – E/B – C/G – A5 – G
  V⁶₄ – VI⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – II5 – I

Part 11 (2:08)

• Em7 – G – C/G – D/A – G – E/B – D/A – C/G – G
  vi7 – I – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I – VI⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – I

Part 12 (2:20)

• D/A – C/G – D/A – G – E/B – D/A – C/G – G – D/A – C/G – D/A
  V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I – VI⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – I – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄

Part 13 (2:33)

• G – E/B – D/A – C/G – G – D/A – C/G – D/A – G – E/B – D/A
  I – VI⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – I – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄ – V⁶₄ – I – VI⁶₄ – V⁶₄

Part 14 (2:45)

• C/G
  IV⁶₄
• G – Em7 (×4)
  I – vi7
• G
  I

Part 15 (2:58)

• Em7 – G (×4)
  vi7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

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