Smoking Gun by The Robert Cray Band

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Transition → Verse → Transition → Solo → Transition → Solo → Transition → Verse → 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

• Em7 – Em9 (×4)
  i7 – i9
• Em7
  i7

Verse 1

• Em7 – Em9 (×4)
  i7 – i9
• Em7 – Am7 (×2)
  i7 – iv7

Transition 1

• Em7 – Em9 (×2)
  i7 – i9
• Em7
  i7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Transition 2

Same chords as Transition 1.

Solo 1

• Em7 – Em9 (×4)
  i7 – i9
• Em7 – Am7 (×2)
  i7 – iv7

Transition 3

Same chords as Transition 1.

Solo 2

Same chords as Solo 1.

Transition 4

Same chords as Transition 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro

• Em7
  i7

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0055, 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.