For No One by The Beatles

Overview

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

Form: Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Solo → Bridge → Verse ×2 → Bridge

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

• B – B/A♯ – G♯m – B/F♯ – E – A7 – B
  I – I (bass A♯) – vi – I⁶₄ – IV – bVII7 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• C♯m – G♯7 (×2)
  ii – VI7
• C♯m – F♯sus4 – F♯
  ii – Vsus4 – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• B – B/A♯ – G♯m – B/F♯ – E – A7 – B
  I – I (bass A♯) – vi – I⁶₄ – IV – bVII7 – I

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 3

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.
• G♯7 acts as V/ii: it resolves to C♯m.

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.