Girl by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C minor · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 10

Form: Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus

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.

Key changes

• Chorus 1 moves to E♭ major.
• Verse 2 moves to C minor.
• Chorus 2 moves to E♭ major.
• Verse 3 moves to C minor.
• Chorus 4 moves to E♭ major.
• Solo moves to C minor.
• Chorus 5 moves to E♭ major.

Section by section

Verse 1

• Cm – G7 – Cm – Fm – E♭ – G – Cm – G7 – Cm – Fm – Cm
  i – V7 – i – iv – bIII – V – i – V7 – i – iv – i

Chorus 1

• E♭ – Gm/D – Fm/C – B♭ (×2)
  I – iii⁶₄ – ii⁶₄ – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• Fm – C (×3)
  ii – VI
• Fm – A♭
  ii – IV

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• Cm – G7 – Cm – Fm – E♭ – G – Cm – G7 – Cm – Fm – Cm
  i – V7 – i – iv – bIII – V – i – V7 – i – iv – i

Chorus 5

• E♭ – Gm/D – Fm/C – B♭ – E♭ – Gm/D
  I – iii⁶₄ – ii⁶₄ – V – I – iii⁶₄

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C acts as V/ii: it resolves to Fm.

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.