The Way You Do the Things You Do by UB40

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 9

Form: Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Verse → Chorus → Verse → 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.

Section by section

Verse 1

• A♭ – D♭/A♭ (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄
• A♭ – D♭ – A♭ – D♭/A♭ – A♭
  I – IV – I – IV⁶₄ – I

Chorus 1

• E♭ – D♭ (×2)
  V – IV
• A♭ – D♭/A♭ – A♭
  I – IV⁶₄ – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• A♭ – D♭ (×2)
  I – IV
• A♭
  I

Verse 3

• A♭ – D♭/A♭ (×2)
  I – IV⁶₄
• A♭
  I

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

• E♭ – D♭ (×2)
  V – IV
• A♭ – D♭/A♭ (×7)
  I – IV⁶₄
• A♭
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0139, 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.