Willie and the Hand Jive by Eric Clapton

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 13

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Verse → Chorus → Outro → Outro ×2

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
  I

Verse 1

• A – D – C5 – A
  I – IV – bIII5 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• D – A – E7
  IV – I – V7

Interlude

• A
  I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• A
  I

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro 1

• A
  I

Outro 2

Same chords as Outro 1.

Outro 3

Same chords as Outro 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C5 (bIII5) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0194, 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.