Important harmony or chords of To the Moon and Back - Savage Garden

To the Moon and Back - Savage Garden - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HCm6gRHINqA#fauxfullscreen


The key of the song is C minor. Ie all key notes are white except E which is Eflat, B which is Bflat, A which is A flat.


The code or harmony of the verse in figured (numbered) bass notation is:


She's taking her
C   time, making up the    (4 equal beats)
B7   reasons,                     (4 equal beats)
G7   to justify all the         (4 equal beats)
A7  hurt inside, guess she (4 equal beats)
C  knows...                           etc
B7 (figured bass repeats in loop...)
G7
A7
C
B6
G7
A7...


So it is mostly repeating the fabulous sequence C, B6, G7, A7


Let's convert from the great Bach's, numbered notation...


C  means C with 1,3,5 ie C bass and C Eb G
B6 means B with G and 3rd added, ie Bb bass and Bb D G
G7 means G with F and 3rd (Bb) added ie G bass with G Bb D F
A7 means A bass with G and 3rd (C) added ie Ab bass with Ab C Eb G


Or

Left hand          Right hand
C                         C Eb G
Bb                       Bb D G
G                         G Bb D F
Ab                      Ab C Eb G


Note flats are automatically derived from key. And everything in fact is automatically derived from key. Ie whether a chord is major, minor, minor 7th, major 7th etc


Bach, Niedt and their colleagues were many hundreds of years ahead of their time.


In order to play this magnificent song not just roughly but with the exact refined chords most of what one needs to remember is the sequence code
C, B6, G7, A7
and the fact that the key or scale is C minor.


Yes music near its highest level is all that simple.


See also Bach bass rules:


https://normanschmidt.net/scores/bachjs-general_bass_rules.pdf