Flying by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 4

Form: Intro → Verse → 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

• C – F7 – C – G – F – C – G7
  I – IV7 – I – V – IV – I – V7

Verse 1

• C – C7
  I – I7
• F – C – G (×2)
  IV – I – V

Verse 2

• C – C7 – F – C – G – F – C
  I – I7 – IV – I – V – IV – I

Outro

• Am – F♯dim
  vi – #iv°

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to F.

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.