Torn by Natalie Imbruglia

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 13

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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

Part 1 (0:01)

• F – Fsus4
  I – Isus4

Part 2 (0:06)

• F – Gm11 – F – Am – B♭7
  I – ii11 – I – iii – IV7

Part 3 (0:26)

• F – Am – B♭7 – Dm – C
  I – iii – IV7 – vi – V

Part 4 (0:46)

• Am – C – F – C – Dm – B♭ – F – C
  iii – V – I – V – vi – IV – I – V

Part 5 (1:06)

• Dm – B♭ – F – C – Dm – B♭ – F
  vi – IV – I – V – vi – IV – I

Part 6 (1:26)

• Am – B♭7 – Dm – C – Am – C
  iii – IV7 – vi – V – iii – V

Part 7 (1:46)

• F – C – Dm – B♭ (×2)
  I – V – vi – IV

Part 8 (2:06)

• F – C – Dm – B♭ – Dm – C – B♭add9 – Dm
  I – V – vi – IV – vi – V – IVadd9 – vi

Part 9 (2:25)

• F – C – Dm – C – Am – C – F – C
  I – V – vi – V – iii – V – I – V

Part 10 (2:45)

• Dm – B♭ – F – C – Dm – B♭ – B♭add9/C – F
  vi – IV – I – V – vi – IV – IVadd9 (bass C) – I

Part 11 (3:03)

• C – Dm – B♭ – F – C – Dm – B♭ – Dm
  V – vi – IV – I – V – vi – IV – vi

Part 12 (3:23)

• C – F – C – Dm – B♭ – B♭add9/C – F – C
  V – I – V – vi – IV – IVadd9 (bass C) – I – V

Part 13 (3:42)

• Dm – B♭ – B♭add9/C – F – C (×2)
  vi – IV – IVadd9 (bass C) – I – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• The Part 7 (1:46) loops F – C – Dm – B♭ (I – V – vi – IV), a rotation of the “axis” progression (I–V–vi–IV family).

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Left Of The Middle), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.
• Section names: this annotation doesn't name verses or choruses, so they aren't guessed. Instead, code used the chord timings to find the bars and cut the song into 8-bar parts. Each part is labelled with the time it starts in the annotated recording (Left Of The Middle), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.