Got to Get You Into My Life by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 8

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

• G – Fadd9/G – G
  I – bVIIadd9 (bass G) – I

Verse 1

• G – Fadd9/G (×2)
  I – bVIIadd9 (bass G)
• Bm – Bm/A♯ – Bm/A – Bm/G♯ (×2)
  iii – iii (bass A♯) – iii (bass A) – iii (bass G♯)
• C – C/B – Am – D – G
  IV – IV (bass B) – ii – V – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• G – C – D – G
  I – IV – V – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• G – C – D – G – F/G – Csus4/F – C/E
  I – IV – V – I – bVII (bass G) – IVsus4 (bass F) – IV⁶

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Outro

• Gsus4 – G (×3)
  Isus4 – I
• Gsus4
  Isus4

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fadd9/G (bVIIadd9 (bass G)) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• F/G (bVII (bass G)) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• Csus4/F (IVsus4 (bass F)) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.

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.
• 4 chords were simplified to the closest symbol our player supports (for example, an unusual added tone dropped).
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.