Tuff Enuff by The Fabulous Thunderbirds

Overview

Key: B major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Solo → Chorus → 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

• D – E – B (×3)
  bIII – IV – I

Verse 1

• B
  I

Chorus 1

• B – D – E (×3)
  I – bIII – IV
• B – D – A
  I – bIII – bVII

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• B – D – E (×3)
  I – bIII – IV
• B
  I

Solo 1

• D – E – B (×2)
  bIII – IV – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo 2

• D – E – B
  bIII – IV – I

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Outro

• D
  bIII

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.
• A (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 1062, 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.