Storms in Africa by Enya

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 14

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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)

• D♭
  I

Part 2 (0:07)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 3 (0:25)

• G♭/D♭ – A♭add11/D♭ – D♭ (×3)
  IV⁶₄ – Vadd11 (bass D♭) – I
• G♭/D♭
  IV⁶₄

Part 4 (0:44)

• A♭add11/D♭ – D♭ – G♭ – A♭ – B♭m – G♭ – A♭ – D♭ – G♭ – A♭ – B♭m
  Vadd11 (bass D♭) – I – IV – V – vi – IV – V – I – IV – V – vi

Part 5 (1:02)

• G♭ – A♭ – D♭ (×3)
  IV – V – I

Part 6 (1:21)

• G♭ – A♭ – D♭ (×2)
  IV – V – I
• G♭ – A♭ – B♭m – G♭ – A♭
  IV – V – vi – IV – V

Part 7 (1:39)

• D♭ – G♭ – A♭ – B♭m
  I – IV – V – vi
• G♭ – A♭ – D♭ (×2)
  IV – V – I

Part 8 (1:58)

Same chords as Part 5 (1:02).

Part 9 (2:16)

• G♭ – A♭ – D♭ (×4)
  IV – V – I

Part 10 (2:33)

• G♭ – A♭ – D♭ (×3)
  IV – V – I
• G♭
  IV

Part 11 (2:52)

• A♭ – D♭ – G♭ (×4)
  V – I – IV

Part 12 (3:10)

• A♭ – D♭
  V – I

Part 13 (3:29)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Part 14 (3:47)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:00).

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Watermark), 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 (Watermark), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.