Your Love Has Lifted Me Higher by Rita Coolidge

Overview

Key: D♭ major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Transition → Verse → Verse → Solo → Verse → Verse → Verse → 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

• D♭ – D♭7 – E♭/D♭ – E♭m/D♭ – E♭m7♭5/D♭ – D♭
  I – I7 – II (bass D♭) – ii (bass D♭) – iiø⁴₂ – I

Transition

• D♭
  I

Verse 1

• D♭ – E♭m/D♭ – E♭m7♭5/D♭ (×2)
  I – ii (bass D♭) – iiø⁴₂
• D♭
  I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• D♭ – E♭m/D♭ – E♭m7♭5/D♭ – D♭ – E♭m/D♭ – A7
  I – ii (bass D♭) – iiø⁴₂ – I – ii (bass D♭) – #V7

Verse 3

• D – E/D – Em/D – Em7♭5/D (×2)
  #I – #II (bass D) – #ii (bass D) – #iiø⁴₂
• D
  #I

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 3.

Verse 5

• E♭ – Fm/E♭ – Fm7♭5/E♭ (×2)
  II – iii (bass E♭) – iiiø⁴₂
• E♭
  II

Verse 6

• E♭ – Fm/E♭ – Fm7♭5/E♭ – E♭
  II – iii (bass E♭) – iiiø⁴₂ – II

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E♭m7♭5/D♭ (iiø⁴₂) is borrowed from the parallel key, D♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0336, 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.