Fixing a Hole by The Beatles

Overview

Key: F Dorian · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → 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

• F – Caug – Fm7 – B♭7
  I – V+ – i7 – IV7

Verse 1

• F – Caug – Fm7 – Fm6/C
  I – V+ – i7 – i6 (bass C)
• Fm7 – Fm6 (×3)
  i7 – i6

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• F – C7sus2 (×3)
  I – V7sus2
• F
  I
• C – G (×3)
  V – II
• C
  V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

• F – Caug
  I – V+
• Fm7 – Fm6 (×4)
  i7 – i6

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 5

• F – Caug
  I – V+
• Fm7 – Fm6 (×2)
  i7 – i6
• Fm7 – Fm6/A♭ – Fm7/A♭ – Fm6/A♭
  i7 – i6 (bass A♭) – i⁶₅ – i6 (bass A♭)

Outro

• F – Caug – Fm7 – Fm6/C
  I – V+ – i7 – i6 (bass C)
• Fm7 – Fm6 (×5)
  i7 – i6
• Fm7
  i7

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.