Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell

Overview

Key: C♯ minor · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Bridge → Chorus → Chorus

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

• C♯5
  I5
• C♯m – Amaj7 – B6 – C♯m – A – B7 (×2)
  i – bVImaj7 – bVII6 – i – bVI – bVII7

Verse 1

• C♯m – A – C♯m – A – B (×2)
  i – bVI – i – bVI – bVII

Chorus 1

• C♯m – A – B (×4)
  i – bVI – bVII

Verse 2

• C♯m – A (×2)
  i – bVI
• B – C♯m – A (×2)
  bVII – i – bVI
• B
  bVII

Verse 3

• C♯m – A – B (×4)
  i – bVI – bVII

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• C♯m – A – B (×5)
  i – bVI – bVII

Bridge

• C♯m – C♯madd11 – C♯m – A – C♯m – Amaj7 – C♯m – A – B
  i – iadd11 – i – bVI – i – bVImaj7 – i – bVI – bVII

Chorus 3

• C♯m – A – B (×8)
  i – bVI – bVII

Chorus 4

• C♯m – A – B (×12)
  i – bVI – bVII

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0334, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• 15 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.