Soul Dance Number 3 by Wilson Pickett

Overview

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

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

• E7
  I7

Verse 1

• E7
  I7

Chorus 1

• G – F – B – E – E7
  bIII – bII – V – I – I7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• G – F – B – E
  bIII – bII – V – I

Solo

• E7
  I7

Outro

• E7
  I7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1021, 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.