Would It Make Any Difference to You by Etta James

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 4

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → 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♭ – E♭ – A♭
  I – V – I

Verse 1

• A♭ – D♭
  I – IV
• E♭ – A♭ (×2)
  V – I
• D♭ – E♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – B♭m – Cm
  IV – V – V7 – I – ii – iii

Chorus

• D♭ – A♭ (×2)
  IV – I
• E♭7
  V7

Verse 2

• A♭ – D♭ – E♭7 – A♭ – D♭ – E♭ – A♭ – D♭ – Cm – B♭m – A♭
  I – IV – V7 – I – IV – V – I – IV – iii – ii – I

Chord vocabulary

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0726, 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.