All You Need Is Love by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Chorus → Outro

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

• D – G (×2)
  V – I
• C – D
  IV – V
• G – D/F♯ – Em – Em/D (×2)
  I – V⁶ – vi – vi (bass D)
• Am – G – D/F♯ – F♯dim/E – D – D/C – G/B – D
  ii – I – V⁶ – vii° (bass E) – V – V (bass C) – I⁶ – V

Verse 1

• G – D/F♯ – Em – Em/D (×2)
  I – V⁶ – vi – vi (bass D)
• Am – G – D/F♯ – D7/E – D – D/C – G/B – D
  ii – I – V⁶ – V7 (bass E) – V – V (bass C) – I⁶ – V

Verse 2

• G – D/F♯ – Em – Em/D (×2)
  I – V⁶ – vi – vi (bass D)
• Am – G – D/F♯ – D7/E – D – D/C – G – D
  ii – I – V⁶ – V7 (bass E) – V – V (bass C) – I – V

Chorus 1

• G – A – D (×2)
  I – II – V
• G – B – Em – Gmaj7/D – C – D – G
  I – III – vi – Imaj⁴₃ – IV – V – I

Solo

• G – D/F♯ – Em – Em/D (×2)
  I – V⁶ – vi – vi (bass D)
• Am – G – D/F♯ – D7/E – D – D/C – G – D
  ii – I – V⁶ – V7 (bass E) – V – V (bass C) – I – V

Chorus 2

• G – A – D (×2)
  I – II – V
• G – B – Em – Em/D – C – D – G
  I – III – vi – vi (bass D) – IV – V – I

Verse 3

• G – D/F♯ – Em – Em/D (×2)
  I – V⁶ – vi – vi (bass D)
• Am – G – D/F♯ – D7 – D – D/C – G – D
  ii – I – V⁶ – V7 – V – V (bass C) – I – V

Chorus 3

• G – A – D (×2)
  I – II – V
• G – B – Em – C – D – G
  I – III – vi – IV – V – I

Chorus 4

• G – A – D (×2)
  I – II – V
• G – B – Em – Em/D – C – D
  I – III – vi – vi (bass D) – IV – V

Outro

• G
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A acts as V/V: it resolves to D.
• B acts as V/vi: it resolves to Em.

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.