Any Time at All by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 12 · Sections: 8

Form: Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → 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

Chorus 1

• Bm – D – A – Bm – G – A – D
  vi – I – V – vi – IV – V – I

Verse 1

• D – F♯m/C♯ – Bm – Gm/B♭ – D/A – A/C♯ (×2)
  I – iii⁶₄ – vi – iv⁶ – I⁶₄ – V⁶
• D
  I

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• A7/E – Bm/F♯ – A7/G (×2)
  V⁴₃ – vi⁶₄ – V⁴₂
• A – G♯ – G – G♯ – A – G♯ – G – A – D
  V – #IV – IV – #IV – V – #IV – IV – V – I

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• G – A – D
  IV – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gm/B♭ (iv⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.

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.