Shape of Things to Come by Max Frost & The Troopers

Overview

Key: F minor · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse

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

• Fm
  i

Verse 1

• Fm – A♭ – B♭ – D♭ – Fm – A♭ – B♭ – C – Fm – Cm – Fm – B♭ – Fm – A♭ – B♭/D – D♭ – Fm – C
  i – bIII – IV – bVI – i – bIII – IV – V – i – v – i – IV – i – bIII – IV⁶ – bVI – i – V

Verse 2

• Fm – A♭ – B♭ – D♭ – Fm – A♭ – B♭ – C – Fm – Cm – Fm – B♭ – Fm – A♭ – B♭/D – D♭ – Fm
  i – bIII – IV – bVI – i – bIII – IV – V – i – v – i – IV – i – bIII – IV⁶ – bVI – i

Bridge

• E♭ – A♭ – B♭ – C
  bVII – bIII – IV – V

Verse 3

• Fm – A♭ – B♭ – D♭ – Fm – A♭ – B♭ – C – Fm – Cm – Fm – B♭
  i – bIII – IV – bVI – i – bIII – IV – V – i – v – i – IV
• Fm – A♭ – B♭/D – D♭ (×4)
  i – bIII – IV⁶ – bVI
• Fm
  i

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭ (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, F major.
• B♭/D (IV⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, F major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0257, 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.