The Thrill Is Gone by B.B. King

Overview

Key: B minor · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Instrumental → Verse → Verse → Instrumental

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

• Bm – Em – Bm – Gmaj7 – F♯7sus4 – F♯7 – Bm
  i – iv – i – bVImaj7 – V7sus4 – V7 – i

Verse 1

• Bm – Em – Bm – Gmaj7 – F♯sus4 – F♯7 – Bm
  i – iv – i – bVImaj7 – Vsus4 – V7 – i

Verse 2

• Bm – Em6 – Bm – Gmaj7 – F♯7 – Bm
  i – iv6 – i – bVImaj7 – V7 – i

Instrumental 1

• Bm – Em – Bm – Gmaj7 – F♯7sus4 – F♯7 – Bm
  i – iv – i – bVImaj7 – V7sus4 – V7 – i

Verse 3

• Bm – Em – Bm – Gmaj7 – F♯7 – Bm
  i – iv – i – bVImaj7 – V7 – i

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 3.

Instrumental 2

• Bm – Em – Bm – Gmaj7 – F♯7sus4 – F♯7 – Bm – Em
  i – iv – i – bVImaj7 – V7sus4 – V7 – i – iv

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0605, 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.