Hello Goodbye by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 10

Form: Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Outro → 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

• F6 – C
  IV6 – I
• G – Am (×2)
  V – vi
• G
  V

Chorus 1

• G – Dm7/G – F/G – C – C/B – Am – C/G – F – A♭ – C – C/G – Am – C/G – F – B♭ – C
  V – ii7 (bass G) – IV (bass G) – I – I (bass B) – vi – I⁶₄ – IV – bVI – I – I⁶₄ – vi – I⁶₄ – IV – bVII – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

• G – Dm7/G – F/G – C – C/B – Am – C/G – F – A♭ – C – C/B – Am – C/G – F – B♭ – C
  V – ii7 (bass G) – IV (bass G) – I – I (bass B) – vi – I⁶₄ – IV – bVI – I – I (bass B) – vi – I⁶₄ – IV – bVII – I

Solo

• F6 – C
  IV6 – I
• G – Am (×2)
  V – vi
• G
  V

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

• G – Dm7/G – F/G – C – C/B – Am – C/G – F – A♭
  V – ii7 (bass G) – IV (bass G) – I – I (bass B) – vi – I⁶₄ – IV – bVI

Outro 1

• C – C/B – Am – C/G – F – B♭ – C – C/B – Am – C/G – F – A♭ – A♭/G – A♭/G♭ – F7 – C
  I – I (bass B) – vi – I⁶₄ – IV – bVII – I – I (bass B) – vi – I⁶₄ – IV – bVI – bVI (bass G) – bVI (bass G♭) – IV7 – I

Outro 2

• C
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• B♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• A♭/G (bVI (bass G)) is borrowed from the parallel key, C 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.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.