Getting Better by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 10

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

• Fadd9/C – C – Fadd9/C
  IVadd9 (bass C) – I – IVadd9 (bass C)

Verse 1

• G – C/G (×5)
  V – I⁶₄

Chorus 1

• C – Dm11/A – Em7 – Fadd9/D – C – Dm11/A – Em7 – Fadd9
  I – ii11 (bass A) – iii7 – IVadd9 (bass D) – I – ii11 (bass A) – iii7 – IVadd9

Verse 2

• G – C/G (×9)
  V – I⁶₄

Chorus 2

• C – Dm11/C – Em7 – Fadd9/D – C – Dm11/C – Em7 – Fadd9
  I – ii11 (bass C) – iii7 – IVadd9 (bass D) – I – ii11 (bass C) – iii7 – IVadd9

Bridge 1

• F – C/E (×3)
  IV – I⁶
• F – C/F
  IV – I (bass F)
• C – Dm11/C – Em7/G – Fadd9 (×2)
  I – ii11 (bass C) – iii⁶₅ – IVadd9

Verse 3

• G
  V

Chorus 3

• C – Dm11/C – Em7/G – Fadd9 (×2)
  I – ii11 (bass C) – iii⁶₅ – IVadd9

Bridge 2

• F – C/E (×2)
  IV – I⁶
• F – C/G – F/A – G/B
  IV – I⁶₄ – IV⁶ – V⁶
• C – Dm11/C – Em7/G – Fadd9 (×2)
  I – ii11 (bass C) – iii⁶₅ – IVadd9
• F – C/E (×3)
  IV – I⁶
• F – G/B
  IV – V⁶

Outro

• C
  I

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.