Win Some Lose Some by Robbie Williams

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 15

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). 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 (0:02)

• E♭ – A♭ – E♭ – Fm – A♭
  I – IV – I – ii – IV

Part 2 (0:19)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:02).

Part 3 (0:37)

Same chords as Part 1 (0:02).

Part 4 (0:54)

• E♭ – B♭ – A♭ – D♭ – B♭ – A♭ – E♭
  I – V – IV – bVII – V – IV – I

Part 5 (1:11)

• A♭ – E♭ – Fm – A♭ – E♭
  IV – I – ii – IV – I

Part 6 (1:28)

Same chords as Part 5 (1:11).

Part 7 (1:45)

Same chords as Part 5 (1:11).

Part 8 (2:02)

• A♭ – E♭ – Fm – A♭ – B♭ – A♭7
  IV – I – ii – IV – V – IV7

Part 9 (2:19)

• B♭ – C♭ – D♭ – E♭ – A♭
  V – bVI – bVII – I – IV

Part 10 (2:35)

• E♭ – Fm – A♭ – E♭ – B♭ – A♭
  I – ii – IV – I – V – IV

Part 11 (2:53)

• D♭ – B♭
  bVII – V
• A♭ – E♭ (×2)
  IV – I

Part 12 (3:10)

• Fm
  ii
• A♭ – E♭ (×2)
  IV – I

Part 13 (3:27)

• Fm – A♭ – E♭ – B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭
  ii – IV – I – V – IV – V – I

Part 14 (3:44)

• B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭ (×2)
  V – IV – V – I

Part 15 (4:01)

• B♭ – A♭ – B♭ – E♭
  V – IV – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.
• C♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, E♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Robbie Williams chord annotations (Di Giorgi et al., Politecnico di Milano, 2013). Chord annotation of the original recording (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), 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 (I've Been Expecting You, 1998), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• 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.