Tripping by Robbie Williams - Piano Chords, Voicings & Structure Breakdown

Harmonic Analysis & Structure

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 17

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). 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)

Am – Dm (×4)
v – i

Part 2 (0:18)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:01).

Part 3 (0:34)

F – Am – Dm (×2)
bIII – v – i

Part 4 (0:50)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:34).

Part 5 (1:06)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:01).

Part 6 (1:23)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:01).

Part 7 (1:39)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:34).

Part 8 (1:55)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:34).

Part 9 (2:12)

Gm – Cm (×4)
iv – bvii

Part 10 (2:28)

Same chords as Part 9 (2:12).

Part 11 (2:44)

Gm
iv

Part 12 (3:00)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:34).

Part 13 (3:17)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:34).

Part 14 (3:33)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:34).

Part 15 (3:49)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:34).

Part 16 (4:05)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:34).

Part 17 (4:22)

F – Am – Dm
bIII – v – i

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
Am	v	In the key	Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17
Dm	i	Home chord (tonic)	Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17
F	bIII	In the key	Part 3, Part 4, Part 7, Part 8, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17
Gm	iv	In the key	Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
Cm	bvii	Outside the key (chromatic)	Part 9, Part 10

Sources & accuracy

Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (Intensive Care, 2005), 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 (Intensive Care, 2005), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
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.

Sources & Accuracy

Every chord on this page comes from the expert transcription listed first below. Piano voicings are our arrangement of the reported chord symbols, not a note-for-note transcription.

the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013)Expert transcription
Annotated from the original recording by trained musicians for a published research dataset.
Chord annotation of the original recording (Intensive Care, 2005), time-stamped by researchers; CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo.

All Piano Voicings

#	Section	Chord	Left hand	Right hand	Sources
1	Part 1 (0:01) (×4)	Am	A2, E3	C4, E4, A4	—
2	Part 1 (0:01) (×4)	Dm	D2, A2	D4, F4, A4	—
3	Part 3 (0:34) (×2)	F	F2, C3	C4, F4, A4	—
4	Part 3 (0:34) (×2)	Am	A2, E3	C4, E4, A4	—
5	Part 3 (0:34) (×2)	Dm	D2, A2	D4, F4, A4	—
6	Part 9 (2:12) (×4)	Gm	G2, D3	D4, G4, B♭4	—
7	Part 9 (2:12) (×4)	Cm	C2, G2	E♭4, G4, C5	—
8	Part 11 (2:44)	Gm	G2, D3	D4, G4, B♭4	—
9	Part 17 (4:22)	F	F2, C3	C4, F4, A4	—
10	Part 17 (4:22)	Am	A2, E3	C4, E4, A4	—
11	Part 17 (4:22)	Dm	D2, A2	D4, F4, A4	—