Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby by The Beatles

Overview

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

Form: Verse → Verse → Solo → Verse → Solo → Solo → Verse → Verse

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

Verse 1

• E7 – A – E – B9 – A – E
  I7 – IV – I – V9 – IV – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo 1

• E – A – E – B9 – A – E
  I – IV – I – V9 – IV – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo 2

• E7♯9 – A7 – E7♯9 – B9 – A9 – E
  I7#9 – IV7 – I7#9 – V9 – IV9 – I

Solo 3

• E7 – A9 – E – B9 – A – E7
  I7 – IV9 – I – V9 – IV – I7

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 5

• E7 – A – E – B9 – A – E – B7 – E – E7 – E9
  I7 – IV – I – V9 – IV – I – V7 – I – I7 – I9

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to A.

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.