Tumbling Dice by The Rolling Stones

Overview

Key: B major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 9

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

• E – B
  IV – I

Verse 1

• B – B/D♯ – B/E
  I – I⁶ – I (bass E)
• F♯ – B (×2)
  V – I
• E – F♯
  IV – V

Verse 2

• B – F♯ (×2)
  I – V
• B – E – F♯
  I – IV – V

Verse 3

• B – B/D♯ – B/E
  I – I⁶ – I (bass E)
• F♯ – B (×2)
  V – I
• E – B
  IV – I

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Verse 5

• B – F♯ (×2)
  I – V
• B – E (×2)
  I – IV
• B
  I

Solo

• B – F♯ (×2)
  I – V
• B – E – F♯
  I – IV – V

Verse 6

Same chords as Verse 5.

Outro

• E – B – F♯ (×18)
  IV – I – V

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0130, 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.