The Best by Tina Turner

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 20 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Solo → Chorus → Interlude → Chorus → Chorus

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.

Key changes

• Solo moves to G major.

Section by section

Intro

• F
  I

Verse 1

• F – F6 – Fmaj7 (×2)
  I – I6 – Imaj7
• F – Dm9 – B♭ – B♭add9
  I – vi9 – IV – IVadd9

Verse 2

• F – F6 – Fmaj7 (×2)
  I – I6 – Imaj7
• F – Dm9 – B♭ – C7
  I – vi9 – IV – V7

Chorus 1

• F – Fadd9 – Fsus4 – F – Fadd9 – Fsus4 – F – Dm7 – Dm11 – B♭add9/D – Dm7 – C (×2)
  I – Iadd9 – Isus4 – I – Iadd9 – Isus4 – I – vi7 – vi11 – IVadd9 (bass D) – vi7 – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• B♭add9 – Dm7 – B♭ – C – D
  IVadd9 – vi7 – IV – V – VI

Solo

• G – Gadd9 – Gsus4 (×2)
  I – Iadd9 – Isus4
• G – Em7 – Em11 – Cadd9/E – Em7 – D
  I – vi7 – vi11 – IVadd9 (bass E) – vi7 – V

Chorus 3

• G – Gadd9 – Gsus4 – G – Gadd9 – Gsus4 – G – Em7 – Em11 – Cadd9/E – Em7 – D (×2)
  I – Iadd9 – Isus4 – I – Iadd9 – Isus4 – I – vi7 – vi11 – IVadd9 (bass E) – vi7 – V

Interlude

• G – Gadd9 (×2)
  I – Iadd9
• Gsus4 – G – Gadd9 (×2)
  Isus4 – I – Iadd9
• Gsus4 – G – D
  Isus4 – I – V

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 3.

Chorus 5

• G – Gadd9 – Gsus4 (×2)
  I – Iadd9 – Isus4
• G – Em7 – Em11 – Cadd9/E – Em7 – D – G – Gadd9
  I – vi7 – vi11 – IVadd9 (bass E) – vi7 – V – I – Iadd9

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0348, 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.