Glass Onion by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 8

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

Verse 1

• Am – F7 (×2)
  i – bVI7
• Am – Gm7
  i – bvii7

Chorus 1

• C – Gm7 – C
  bIII – bvii7 – bIII
• F7 – D7 (×2)
  bVI7 – IV7
• F7 – G
  bVI7 – bVII

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• Am – F/A – F♯dim/A – Am7 – F7 – G
  i – bVI⁶ – vi°⁶ – i7 – bVI7 – bVII

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• F7♭9 – Bdim7/C – B♭dim7/F – Cdim7 – Cdim7/D – B♭dim7/A – Ddim7 – Adim7 – F7♭9 – Bdim7/C – B♭dim7/F – Cdim7 – Cdim7/D – Bdim7/C – B♭dim7/F
  bVI7b9 – ii°7 (bass C) – bii°7 (bass F) – biii°7 – biii°7 (bass D) – bii°7 (bass A) – iv°7 – i°7 – bVI7b9 – ii°7 (bass C) – bii°7 (bass F) – biii°7 – biii°7 (bass D) – ii°7 (bass C) – bii°7 (bass F)

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.