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The Beastie Boys · 1994

Sabotage

3 notes across the harmonic analysis · 1 passage shape.

Chord-derived pitch classes, after David Temperley. The melody and other unannotated notes are not included. Method & limits

C4GDAEBG♭D♭A♭0E♭1B♭F

All annotated harmonies combined

Whole analysis

Circle 25 · 3 notes

C · E♭ · A♭

Fits within a diatonic collection; no tonic is implied. This combines notes across time; compare the passages below to see where the field changes.

C4GDAEBG♭D♭A♭0E♭1B♭F

Source passage · BP

Passage BP

Circle 25 · 3 notes

C · E♭ · A♭

Fits within a diatonic collection; no tonic is implied. This field belongs to this passage, not necessarily the whole song.

Source & interpretation

David Temperley’s harmonic analysis of Sabotage ↗, from the de Clercq–Temperley RS 200 corpus. Retrieved 19 October 2026.

The complete field includes all harmonies in the source’s S rule. The passages are its named top-level units; direct chords outside those units still contribute to the whole field. Repeated units with the same notes are merged. Labels such as “Passage A” preserve the source where a conventional section name is not given.

Notes and circle assignments are calculated by Chordfields from that analysis. They have not been independently verified against the recording. Read the full method.