You Give Love a Bad Name by Bon Jovi

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 21

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). 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 (0:08)

• C5 – A♭5
  I5 – bVI5

Part 2 (0:09)

• B♭5 – C5 – A♭5 – B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 – A♭5 – B♭5 – C5
  bVII5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – I5

Part 3 (0:19)

• A♭5 – B♭5 – Cm
  bVI5 – bVII5 – i

Part 4 (0:29)

• Cm
  i

Part 5 (0:39)

• F(no5)
  IV(no5)

Part 6 (0:50)

• Cm – B♭ – F
  i – bVII – IV

Part 7 (1:00)

• G
  V
• C5 – A♭5 – B♭5 (×2)
  I5 – bVI5 – bVII5
• E♭5 – C5
  bIII5 – I5

Part 8 (1:11)

• A♭5 – B♭5 – C5 – A♭5 – B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 – A♭5 – B♭5
  bVI5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5

Part 9 (1:21)

Same chords as Part 4 (0:29).

Part 10 (1:31)

Same chords as Part 4 (0:29).

Part 11 (1:42)

• F5 – Cm
  IV5 – i

Part 12 (1:52)

• B♭ – F – G – C5
  bVII – IV – V – I5

Part 13 (2:03)

Same chords as Part 8 (1:11).

Part 14 (2:13)

• C5 – A♭5 – B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 – A♭5 – B♭5 – C5 – A♭5
  I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5 – I5 – bVI5

Part 15 (2:23)

• B♭5 – C5 – A♭5 (×2)
  bVII5 – I5 – bVI5
• B♭5 – C5
  bVII5 – I5

Part 16 (2:33)

• A♭5 – G5
  bVI5 – V5

Part 17 (2:43)

• C5 – A♭5 – B♭5 (×2)
  I5 – bVI5 – bVII5

Part 18 (3:01)

• E♭5
  bIII5
• C5 – A♭5 – B♭5 (×2)
  I5 – bVI5 – bVII5
• E♭5 – C5 – A♭5
  bIII5 – I5 – bVI5

Part 19 (3:11)

• B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 – A♭5 (×2)
  bVII5 – bIII5 – I5 – bVI5
• B♭5 – E♭5 – C5
  bVII5 – bIII5 – I5

Part 20 (3:21)

• A♭5 – B♭5 – E♭5 – C5 (×2)
  bVI5 – bVII5 – bIII5 – I5
• A♭5 – B♭5
  bVI5 – bVII5

Part 21 (3:32)

• E♭5 – C5 – A♭5 – B♭5 (×2)
  bIII5 – I5 – bVI5 – bVII5
• E♭5 – C5
  bIII5 – I5

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F(no5) (IV(no5)) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.
• F (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, C major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords: the Uspop2002 chord annotations (Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University). Chord annotation of the original recording (Slippery When Wet), 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 (Slippery When Wet), and a part with exactly the same chords as an earlier one says so.
• The key was estimated by code from the chords; this annotation doesn't state it.
• 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.