She by Zweieck

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). 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

• Bridge moves to D♭ major.
• Verse 3 moves to B♭ major.

Section by section

Intro

• B♭
  I

Verse 1

• D♭dim – Cm7 – B♭ – G/B – Cm7 – F♯dim – B♭/F – C7/E – E♭/F – B♭ – E♭ – E♭/F
  biii° – ii7 – I – VI⁶ – ii7 – #v° – I⁶₄ – II⁶₅ – IV (bass F) – I – IV – IV (bass F)

Verse 2

• B♭ – D♭dim – Cm7 – B♭ – G/B – Cm7 – F♯dim – B♭/F – C7/E – E♭/F – B♭ – A♭
  I – biii° – ii7 – I – VI⁶ – ii7 – #v° – I⁶₄ – II⁶₅ – IV (bass F) – I – bVII

Bridge

• G♭ – D♭ – C♭/G♭ – B♭/F – E♭m – A♭ – D♭ – B♭ – C(no5) – C/E – F
  IV – I – bVII⁶₄ – VI⁶₄ – ii – V – I – VI – VII(no5) – VII⁶ – III

Verse 3

• B♭ – D♭dim – Cm7 – B♭ – G/B – Cm7 – F♯dim – B♭/F – C7/E – E♭/F – E♭
  I – biii° – ii7 – I – VI⁶ – ii7 – #v° – I⁶₄ – II⁶₅ – IV (bass F) – IV

Outro

• B♭ – D♭dim – Cm7 – E♭/F – B♭
  I – biii° – ii7 – IV (bass F) – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• C♭/G♭ (bVII⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• C(no5) (VII(no5)) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.
• G/B acts as V/ii: it resolves to Cm7.
• B♭/F acts as V/ii: it resolves to E♭m.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 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.