Every Little Thing by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse ×2 → Chorus → Solo → 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

• A – D – E
  I – IV – V

Verse 1

• A – D – E – A – G – D – D/C♯ – A/C♯ – Bm – D/A – E/G♯ – A
  I – IV – V – I – bVII – IV – IV (bass C♯) – I⁶ – ii – IV⁶₄ – V⁶ – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• A – G (×2)
  I – bVII
• A
  I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• A – D – E – A – G – D – A/C♯ – Bm – D/A – E/G♯ – A
  I – IV – V – I – bVII – IV – I⁶ – ii – IV⁶₄ – V⁶ – I

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• A – D – E (×2)
  I – IV – V
• A – D
  I – IV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A 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.