Come Together by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 15

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

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). 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

• Dm
  i

Verse 1

• Dm – Am
  i – v

Interlude 1

• Dm
  i

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• B5 – A5 – G5 – A5
  VI5 – V5 – IV5 – V5

Interlude 2

Same chords as Interlude 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude 3

• Dm7
  i7

Solo

• Dm – Am
  i – v

Interlude 4

Same chords as Interlude 3.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Interlude 5

Same chords as Interlude 1.

Outro

• Dm13
  i13

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B5 (VI5) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0473, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: another expert transcription (the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London)) differs in places from this one, so this page isn't marked verified.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.