Silver Inches by Enya

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 5

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 (0:02)

• A – E (×2)
  I – V
• Dadd9
  IVadd9

Part 2 (0:17)

• E – F♯m7
  V – vi7
• E – A (×2)
  V – I
• E – Dadd9
  V – IVadd9

Part 3 (0:34)

• E – F♯m – G – Dadd9 – E – A
  V – vi – bVII – IVadd9 – V – I

Part 4 (0:50)

• E – A – E – Dadd9 – E – F♯m7 – E/G♯ – A
  V – I – V – IVadd9 – V – vi7 – V⁶ – I

Part 5 (1:07)

• E – A – E – Dadd9 – E – F♯m – G – Dadd9 – E – A
  V – I – V – IVadd9 – V – vi – bVII – IVadd9 – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (A Day Without Rain), 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 (A Day Without Rain), 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.