Spread Your Wings by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 14

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). 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

Part 1 (0:00)

• F – C – B♭ – C – F – C
  I – V – IV – V – I – V

Part 2 (0:07)

• B♭ – C – F – C (×4)
  IV – V – I – V

Part 3 (0:26)

• B♭ – C
  IV – V
• Dm – B♭ (×3)
  vi – IV
• C
  V

Part 4 (0:45)

• F – C – B♭ – C (×3)
  I – V – IV – V
• F – C
  I – V

Part 5 (1:03)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:07).

Part 6 (1:22)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:26).

Part 7 (1:41)

• Dm – F – G – Am
  vi – I – II – iii
• G – F – Dm – F (×2)
  II – I – vi – I

Part 8 (1:54)

• G – Am
  II – iii
• G – F – Dm – F (×2)
  II – I – vi – I
• G – Am – G – F
  II – iii – II – I

Part 9 (2:06)

• Dm – F – G – F – Dm – F – G – Am – Gm – F – Dm – F – G – F
  vi – I – II – I – vi – I – II – iii – ii – I – vi – I – II – I

Part 10 (2:18)

• Dm
  vi
• F – C – B♭ – C (×3)
  I – V – IV – V
• F – C
  I – V

Part 11 (2:36)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:26).

Part 12 (2:55)

Same chords as Part 4 (0:45).

Part 13 (3:13)

Same chords as Part 2 (0:07).

Part 14 (3:32)

• B♭ – C – F
  IV – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Intensive Care, 2005), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Intensive Care, 2005), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• 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.