Till the End of the Day by The Kinks

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Chorus → Chorus → Chorus → Solo

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

• D5 – C5 – A5
  I5 – bVII5 – V5

Chorus 1

• C5 – D5 – F5 – C5 – D5 (×2)
  bVII5 – I5 – bIII5 – bVII5 – I5
• F5 – G5 – B♭5 – A5
  bIII5 – IV5 – bVI5 – V5
• C5 – D5 – F5 – C5 – D5 (×2)
  bVII5 – I5 – bIII5 – bVII5 – I5
• C5
  bVII5

Chorus 2

• D5 – C5 – F5 – C5 (×2)
  I5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – bVII5
• D5 – C5 – F5 – A5
  I5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – V5
• D5 – C5 (×2)
  I5 – bVII5
• B♭5 – F5 – G5 – B♭5 – A5
  bVI5 – bIII5 – IV5 – bVI5 – V5
• C5 – D5 – F5 – C5 – D5 (×2)
  bVII5 – I5 – bIII5 – bVII5 – I5
• C5
  bVII5

Chorus 3

• D5 – C5 – F5 – C5 (×2)
  I5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – bVII5
• D5 – C5 – F5 – A5
  I5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – V5
• D5 – C5 (×2)
  I5 – bVII5
• B♭5 – F5 – G5 – B♭5 – A5
  bVI5 – bIII5 – IV5 – bVI5 – V5
• D5 – C5 (×4)
  I5 – bVII5

Solo

• D5 – C5 – F5 – C5 (×2)
  I5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – bVII5
• D5 – C5 – F5 – A5
  I5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – V5
• D5 – C5 (×2)
  I5 – bVII5
• B♭5 – F5 – G5 – B♭5 – A5
  bVI5 – bIII5 – IV5 – bVI5 – V5
• D5 – C5 (×8)
  I5 – bVII5
• A5 – B♭5 (×6)
  V5 – bVI5
• A
  V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C5 (bVII5) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• F5 (bIII5) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• B♭5 (bVI5) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0904, 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.