She's the One by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 12

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). 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 (0:01)

• B♭
  I

Part 2 (0:04)

• E♭maj7 – B♭ (×3)
  IVmaj7 – I
• E♭maj7 – Cm
  IVmaj7 – ii

Part 3 (0:28)

• F7 – B♭ – E♭maj7 – Cm – F7 – B♭ – E♭maj7 – B♭
  V7 – I – IVmaj7 – ii – V7 – I – IVmaj7 – I

Part 4 (0:53)

• E♭maj7 – B♭ – E♭maj7 – Cm – F7 – B♭ – A♭/B♭ – E♭
  IVmaj7 – I – IVmaj7 – ii – V7 – I – bVII (bass B♭) – IV

Part 5 (1:17)

• B♭ – A♭/B♭ – B♭7 – E♭ – Gm/D – Cm – E♭/F – F
  I – bVII (bass B♭) – I7 – IV – vi⁶₄ – ii – IV (bass F) – V

Part 6 (1:40)

• B♭ – E♭maj7 (×2)
  I – IVmaj7
• Cm – F7 – B♭ – E♭maj7
  ii – V7 – I – IVmaj7

Part 7 (2:04)

• Cm – F7 – B♭ – A♭/B♭ – E♭ – B♭ – A♭/B♭
  ii – V7 – I – bVII (bass B♭) – IV – I – bVII (bass B♭)

Part 8 (2:27)

• E♭ – Gm/D – Cm – E♭/F – F – B♭ – Gm/E♭ – B♭
  IV – vi⁶₄ – ii – IV (bass F) – V – I – vi (bass E♭) – I

Part 9 (2:50)

• Gm/E♭ – Cm – F7 – B♭ – Fm/B♭ – Cm – F7 – B♭
  vi (bass E♭) – ii – V7 – I – v (bass B♭) – ii – V7 – I

Part 10 (3:13)

• B♭7 – Cm – F7 – Gm – E♭ – Cm – F7 – Gm
  I7 – ii – V7 – vi – IV – ii – V7 – vi

Part 11 (3:36)

• A♭ – Cm – F7 – Gm – E♭ – Cm – F7 – B♭
  bVII – ii – V7 – vi – IV – ii – V7 – I

Part 12 (3:58)

• E♭maj7 – B♭ (×2)
  IVmaj7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭/B♭ (bVII (bass B♭)) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• Fm/B♭ (v (bass B♭)) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• A♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• B♭7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to E♭.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), 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 (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• 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.