Don't Pass Me By by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Interlude → 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

Verse 1

• F – G – F – C
  IV – V – IV – I

Verse 2

• C – F – G – F – C
  I – IV – V – IV – I

Chorus 1

• C – F – C – G – F – C
  I – IV – I – V – IV – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 2

• C – F – C – G – F
  I – IV – I – V – IV

Interlude

• C – C/G – C
  I – I⁶₄ – I

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Outro

• C – F – G – Csus4 – C
  I – IV – V – Isus4 – I

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.