Smokin' in the Boys Room by Brownsville Station

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 13

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Solo → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Chorus → Outro

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

• D5
  I5

Verse 1

• D5 – B♭5 (×2)
  I5 – bVI5

Chorus 1

• G – D
  IV – I
• A – G (×2)
  V – IV

Transition 1

• D5
  I5

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 2

Same chords as Transition 1.

Solo

• G – D – G – A – G – D – G – Em – A
  IV – I – IV – V – IV – I – IV – ii – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Transition 3

• D5 – D7♯9
  I5 – I7#9

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• D
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭5 (bVI5) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0256, 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.