There's the Girl by Heart

Overview

Key: B minor · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Verse → Chorus → Transition → Bridge → Chorus → Transition → Outro

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 – F♯m7 – G6 – Aadd9 (×2)
  i – v7 – bVI6 – bVIIadd9

Verse 1

• Bm – G – A (×2)
  i – bVI – bVII
• Em9 – F♯m7 – Bmadd11 – G – A – Bm – G – A – Em9 – F♯m7 – G – A
  iv9 – v7 – iadd11 – bVI – bVII – i – bVI – bVII – iv9 – v7 – bVI – bVII

Chorus 1

• Bm7 – F♯m7 – G – A (×2)
  i7 – v7 – bVI – bVII

Transition 1

• Bm7 – F♯m7 – G – A
  i7 – v7 – bVI – bVII

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• Bm7 – F♯m7 – G – A (×4)
  i7 – v7 – bVI – bVII

Transition 2

• Bm7 – F♯m7 – G – A (×2)
  i7 – v7 – bVI – bVII

Bridge

• Em9 – D/F♯ – G – A (×2)
  iv9 – bIII⁶ – bVI – bVII

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Transition 3

Same chords as Transition 2.

Outro

• Bm7 – F♯m7 – G – A (×4)
  i7 – v7 – bVI – bVII

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0281, 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.