Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills & Nash

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 7

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

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

• D – G – D – A
  I – IV – I – V

Verse 1

• D – G – D – A (×2)
  I – IV – I – V

Chorus 1

• D – G – D – A (×2)
  I – IV – I – V
• D – G – D – Bm – G – A
  I – IV – I – vi – IV – V

Transition

• D – G – D – A
  I – IV – I – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• D – G – D – A – D
  I – IV – I – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0905, 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.