What's Love Got to Do With It by Tina Turner

Overview

Key: G♯ major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Verse → Pre-Chorus → Chorus → Solo → Bridge → Chorus

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

• G♯m7 – F♯/G♯ (×2)
  i7 – bVII (bass G♯)

Verse 1

• G♯m7 – F♯/G♯ (×2)
  i7 – bVII (bass G♯)

Pre-Chorus 1

• E – F♯ (×3)
  bVI – bVII

Chorus 1

• B – F♯ – E – F♯ (×4)
  bIII – bVII – bVI – bVII

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Pre-Chorus 2

Same chords as Pre-Chorus 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• C♯ – G♯ – F♯ – G♯ (×3)
  IV – I – bVII – I
• C♯ – G♯ – F♯
  IV – I – bVII

Bridge

• B/C♯ – C♯ (×2)
  bIII (bass C♯) – IV
• A – B/A – G♯m7 – C♯
  bII – bIII (bass A) – i7 – IV

Chorus 3

• C♯ – G♯ – F♯ – G♯ (×3)
  IV – I – bVII – I
• C♯ – G♯ – F♯ (×2)
  IV – I – bVII
• G♯ – C♯ – G♯ – F♯ (×3)
  I – IV – I – bVII
• C♯ – G♯ – F♯ – G♯ (×3)
  IV – I – bVII – I
• C♯ – G♯ – F♯ (×2)
  IV – I – bVII
• G♯ – C♯ – G♯ – F♯ – G♯
  I – IV – I – bVII – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♯m7 (i7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G♯ minor.
• F♯/G♯ (bVII (bass G♯)) is borrowed from the parallel key, G♯ minor.
• E (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, G♯ minor.
• F♯ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G♯ minor.
• B (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G♯ minor.
• B/C♯ (bIII (bass C♯)) is borrowed from the parallel key, G♯ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0150, 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.