Get Back by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A Mixolydian · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus → Solo → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus → 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

• A7 – G5 – A – G/A – D/A
  I7 – bVII5 – I – bVII (bass A) – IV⁶₄

Verse 1

• A – D (×2)
  I – IV
• A
  I

Chorus 1

• A7 – D – A – G/A – D/A – A – D – A
  I7 – IV – I – bVII (bass A) – IV⁶₄ – I – IV – I

Solo 1

• A – D – A – G
  I – IV – I – bVII
• D – A (×2)
  IV – I
• G/A – D/A
  bVII (bass A) – IV⁶₄

Chorus 2

• Am7 – D – A – G/A – D/A – A7 – D
  i7 – IV – I – bVII (bass A) – IV⁶₄ – I7 – IV

Solo 2

• A – D – A – G/A – D/A (×2)
  I – IV – I – bVII (bass A) – IV⁶₄

Verse 2

• A – D (×2)
  I – IV
• A – G/A
  I – bVII (bass A)

Chorus 3

• A7 – D – A – G/A – D/A – A7 – D – A
  I7 – IV – I – bVII (bass A) – IV⁶₄ – I7 – IV – I

Solo 3

Same chords as Solo 2.

Chorus 4

• A7 – D – A – G/A – D/A – A7 – D
  I7 – IV – I – bVII (bass A) – IV⁶₄ – I7 – IV

Outro

• D7
  IV7

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.