A Taste of Honey by The Beatles

Overview

Key: F♯ minor · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Bridge

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). 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

• F♯m – A – E
  i – bIII – bVII

Verse 1

• F♯m – F♯mmaj7 – F♯m7 – B (×2)
  i – imaj7 – i7 – IV
• F♯m – A – E
  i – bIII – bVII
• F♯m – Bm (×2)
  i – iv
• F♯m
  i

Bridge 1

• A – B – F♯m – B – A – E
  bIII – IV – i – IV – bIII – bVII

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

• A – B – F♯m – B – A – E
  bIII – IV – i – IV – bIII – bVII
• F♯m – Bm (×3)
  i – iv
• F♯
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, F♯ major.
• F♯ (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, F♯ major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 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.