The Right Time by Ray Charles

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Theme → Theme ×3 → 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

• B♭7 – A♭7 – E♭7 – E♭7/G – A♭7 – Adim7 – E♭7/B♭ – B♭7
  V7 – IV7 – I7 – I⁶₅ – IV7 – #iv°7 – I⁴₃ – V7

Theme 1

• E♭7 – A♭7 – E♭7 – B♭7 – A♭7 – E♭7
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7 – I7

Theme 2

Same chords as Theme 1.

Theme 3

Same chords as Theme 1.

Theme 4

Same chords as Theme 1.

Verse

• E♭7 – A♭7 – E♭7 – B♭7 – A♭7 – E♭7
  I7 – IV7 – I7 – V7 – IV7 – I7

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0214, 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.