Unintended by Muse

Overview

Key: E minor · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 9

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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 (0:00)

• E – B7
  I – V7

Part 2 (0:10)

• E – Am – D – G – C – B7 – E
  I – iv – bVII – bIII – bVI – V7 – I

Part 3 (0:38)

• Am – D – G – C – B7 – E
  iv – bVII – bIII – bVI – V7 – I

Part 4 (1:05)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:38).

Part 5 (1:33)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:38).

Part 6 (2:00)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:38).

Part 7 (2:28)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:38).

Part 8 (2:55)

Same chords as Part 3 (0:38).

Part 9 (3:23)

• Am – Am7/G – Am6/F♯ – Fmaj7 – Esus4 – E
  iv – iv⁴₂ – iv6 (bass F♯) – bIImaj7 – Isus4 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, E major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Showbiz), 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 (Showbiz), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.