Some Like It Hot by The Power Station

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 11

Form: Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Interlude → Solo → Pre-Chorus → 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

Verse 1

• Em
  i

Pre-Chorus 1

• C – D – Em (×2)
  bVI – bVII – i

Chorus 1

• Em – C – Dsus4 (×8)
  i – bVI – bVIIsus4

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude

• Em
  i

Solo

• Em
  i

Pre-Chorus 3

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• Em
  i

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0044, 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.