Turn Your Love Around by George Benson

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 15

Form: Intro → Intro → Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Pre-Chorus → B Section → Chorus → C Section → Pre-Chorus → B Section → Chorus → C Section → Outro → Outro

Where these chords come from: a chord chart of this song written by a musician and shared on the iReal Pro forums, archived in the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). It's one musician's reading of the song, not a transcription checked against the recording. This page shows that chart 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 1

• Dm9 – G
  iv9 – bVII

Intro 2

Same chords as Intro 1.

Intro 3

• Dm9 – G – Dm9
  iv9 – bVII – iv9

Verse

• Dm9 – Aaug7
  iv9 – I+7
• Dm9 – G (×3)
  iv9 – bVII
• Cmaj7
  bIIImaj7

Pre-Chorus 1

• Aaug7
  I+7
• Dm9 – G (×3)
  iv9 – bVII
• Cmaj7
  bIIImaj7

Pre-Chorus 2

• Aaug7
  I+7

B Section 1

• Fmaj7 – Fmaj7/G – Fmaj9
  bVImaj7 – bVImaj7 (bass G) – bVImaj9

Chorus 1

• Eaug
  V+

C Section 1

• Am7 – G – Fmaj7 – Eaug7 (×3)
  i7 – bVII – bVImaj7 – V+7
• Fmaj7 – Eaug
  bVImaj7 – V+
• Dm9 – G (×4)
  iv9 – bVII
• Cmaj7
  bIIImaj7

Pre-Chorus 3

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 2.

B Section 2

Same chords as B Section 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

C Section 2

• Am7 – G – Fmaj7 – Eaug7 (×3)
  i7 – bVII – bVImaj7 – V+7
• Fmaj7
  bVImaj7

Outro 1

• Bm11 – Eaug – Am7 – C/D – D9 – Fmaj9 – Bm11 – Eaug – Am7 – Fmaj7/G – G♭m7♭5 – Fmaj7
  ii11 – V+ – i7 – bIII (bass D) – IV9 – bVImaj9 – ii11 – V+ – i7 – bVImaj7 (bass G) – viø7 – bVImaj7

Outro 2

• Eaug
  V+
• Am7 – G – Fmaj7 – Eaug7 (×3)
  i7 – bVII – bVImaj7 – V+7
• Dm9 – Dm9/E – Dm9/F – Dm9/F♯ – Fmaj7/G – Eaug
  iv9 – iv9 (bass E) – iv9 (bass F) – iv9 (bass F♯) – bVImaj7 (bass G) – V+
• Am7 – G – Fmaj7 – Eaug7 (×3)
  i7 – bVII – bVImaj7 – V+7
• Dm9 – Dm9/E – Dm9/F – Dm9/F♯ – Fmaj7/G – Eaug
  iv9 – iv9 (bass E) – iv9 (bass F) – iv9 (bass F♯) – bVImaj7 (bass G) – V+

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Bm11 (ii11) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the iReal Pro forum charts archived in ChoCo (de Berardinis et al., 2023). Community chord chart “Turn Your Love Around - George Benson” (credited “Champlin, Graydon, Lukather”, style Disco) from the forum file linked here, CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo. Performer confirmed from the Billboard year-end charts.
• Section names: from the chart's own markings: section names written on the chart (Intro, Verse, Chorus…) are kept, and rehearsal letters are shown as “A Section”, “B Section” and so on (the B of an AABA song is called the Bridge).
• Chord charts are often written in a key that suits a particular singer or band, so this may not be the key of the original recording.
• The chart's D.S./D.C./coda jumps have been written out in playing order.
• About the song: Wikipedia.
• Not verified: only one chart of this song is available, so it hasn't been cross-checked.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.