Twisting the Night Away by Rod Stewart

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 15

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse → Verse → Solo → Solo → Verse ×2 → Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Verse ×2 → Verse

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
  I

Verse 1

• D – Bm – G – A
  I – vi – IV – V

Verse 2

• D – Bm – G – A – D
  I – vi – IV – V – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Solo 1

• D – Bm – G – A
  I – vi – IV – V

Solo 2

Same chords as Solo 1.

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 6

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• D – G – A – D
  I – IV – V – I

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• D – Bm – A
  I – vi – V

Verse 7

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 8

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 9

• D
  I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0620, 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.