You're the First, the Last, My Everything by Barry White

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 6

Form: Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → Chorus

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

Verse 1

• F – Fmaj7 – Dm – Fmaj7 – F7 – B♭ – Gm7 – C7 – Am7 – Dm – G7 – B♭m6 – C7
  I – Imaj7 – vi – Imaj7 – I7 – IV – ii7 – V7 – iii7 – vi – II7 – iv6 – V7

Chorus 1

• F – Fmaj7 – Dm – Fmaj7 – F7 – B♭ – B♭m6 – Fmaj7 – D7 – G7 – C7 – F
  I – Imaj7 – vi – Imaj7 – I7 – IV – iv6 – Imaj7 – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude

• F – Fmaj7 – F7 – B♭ – B♭m6 – F – D7 – G7 – C7
  I – Imaj7 – I7 – IV – iv6 – I – VI7 – II7 – V7

Chorus 3

• F – Fmaj7 – Dm – Fmaj7 – F7 – B♭ – B♭m6 – F – D7 – G7 – C7 – F
  I – Imaj7 – vi – Imaj7 – I7 – IV – iv6 – I – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m6 (iv6) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• F7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to B♭.
• G7 acts as V/V: it resolves to C7.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0796, 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.