Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches & Herb

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 20

Form: Intro → Instrumental → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse ×2 → Chorus → Verse → Bridge → Instrumental → Chorus → Verse ×3 → Verse ×5

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

• D – D♭ – C – B – E7sus4
  IV – bIV – bIII – II – V7sus4

Instrumental 1

• A – Am7 – Bm/A (×2)
  I – i7 – ii (bass A)

Verse 1

• A – Am7 – Bm/A (×2)
  I – i7 – ii (bass A)
• G – D (×4)
  bVII – IV

Verse 2

• A – Am7 – Bm/A (×2)
  I – i7 – ii (bass A)

Chorus 1

• F♯m – G – E7sus4 (×2)
  vi – bVII – V7sus4

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 2.

Bridge

• D – D♭ – C – B – E7sus4
  IV – bIV – bIII – II – V7sus4

Instrumental 2

Same chords as Instrumental 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 6

Same chords as Verse 2.

Verse 7

Same chords as Verse 2.

Verse 8

Same chords as Verse 2.

Verse 9

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 10

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 11

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 12

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 13

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Am7 (i7) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• B acts as V/V: it resolves to E7sus4.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0550, 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.