Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey by The Beatles

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 8

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

• E – A/C♯ – A(no5) (×4)
  I – IV⁶ – IV(no5)

Verse 1

• E – A (×6)
  I – IV

Chorus 1

• A – D – B – E – D – G – E – G – D
  IV – bVII – V – I – bVII – bIII – I – bIII – bVII

Verse 2

• E – A (×10)
  I – IV

Chorus 2

• A – D – B – E – D – G6 – E – G – D6
  IV – bVII – V – I – bVII – bIII6 – I – bIII – bVII6

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Outro

• E – D
  I – bVII
• E – A (×6)
  I – IV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• G (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• G6 (bIII6) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• D6 (bVII6) is borrowed from the parallel key, E 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.