Sweet Nothin's by Brenda Lee

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Instrumental → Verse

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

• G
  I

Verse 1

• G – C (×3)
  I – IV
• G – D – C – G
  I – V – IV – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Instrumental

• G – C (×3)
  I – IV
• G – D – C – G
  I – V – IV – I

Verse 3

• G – C (×3)
  I – IV
• G – D – C (×2)
  I – V – IV
• G
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0162, 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.