Where or When by Dion

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → 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

• A♭ – Fm – D♭ – E♭ – D♭
  I – vi – IV – V – IV

Verse 1

• A♭ – A♭6 – A♭maj7 – D♭ – A♭ – Fm – D♭ – E♭
  I – I6 – Imaj7 – IV – I – vi – IV – V

Verse 2

• A♭ – A♭6 – A♭maj7 – D♭ – A♭maj7 – Fm – D♭ – C7
  I – I6 – Imaj7 – IV – Imaj7 – vi – IV – III7

Bridge

• Fm – B♭m – Gm7♭5 – C7 – Fm – B♭m – B♭m7 – E♭7
  vi – ii – viiø7 – III7 – vi – ii – ii7 – V7

Verse 3

• A♭maj7 – A♭6 – A♭maj7 – A♭7 – B♭m – F7 – B♭m7 – Cm7 – D♭maj7 – E♭7 – A♭maj7 – Fm – B♭m – E♭ – D♭ – A♭
  Imaj7 – I6 – Imaj7 – I7 – ii – VI7 – ii7 – iii7 – IVmaj7 – V7 – Imaj7 – vi – ii – V – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Fm.
• F7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to B♭m7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0434, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• 1 chord was simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.