Carry That Weight by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 5

Form: Intro → 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

Intro

• C
  I

Chorus 1

• C – G (×2)
  I – V
• C – Cmaj7/B
  I – Imaj⁴₂

Bridge

• Am – Dm9 – Dm – G7 – Csus4 – C – F – Bdim – E7 – Am – Am7 – Dm9 – Dm – G7 – Csus4 – C – F – Bdim – E7 – Am – G – C/G – G
  vi – ii9 – ii – V7 – Isus4 – I – IV – vii° – III7 – vi – vi7 – ii9 – ii – V7 – Isus4 – I – IV – vii° – III7 – vi – V – I⁶₄ – V

Chorus 2

• C – G (×2)
  I – V
• C – G/B
  I – V⁶

Outro

• A – C – G/B – A
  VI – I – V⁶ – VI

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E7 acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am.

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.