For You Blue by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → 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

Intro

• A – D – G7/B – E7 – A7
  V – I – IV⁶₅ – II7 – V7

Verse 1

• D – G7 (×2)
  I – IV7
• D – A – G7 – D – A
  I – V – IV7 – I – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo 1

• D – G7 (×2)
  I – IV7
• D – A – G7 – D – A
  I – V – IV7 – I – V

Solo 2

• D – G7 (×2)
  I – IV7
• D – A (×2)
  I – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

• D – G7 (×2)
  I – IV7
• D – A – G7 – D – G – Aaug – D
  I – V – IV7 – I – IV – V+ – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Aaug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• E7 acts as V/V: it resolves to A7.

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.