Boys by The Beatles

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Solo → Verse → Bridge → 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

• B – A – E – B
  V – IV – I – V

Verse 1

• E
  I
• A – E – B (×2)
  IV – I – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• E
  I
• A – E – B (×2)
  IV – I – V

Solo

• E
  I
• A – E – B (×2)
  IV – I – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Outro

• E – A – E – B
  I – IV – I – V

Chord vocabulary

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.