Hold Me Tight by The Beatles

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 8

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

• F – C
  I – V

Verse 1

• F – B♭ – G – C (×2)
  I – IV – II – V
• F – F7 – B♭
  I – I7 – IV
• B♭m – F (×2)
  iv – I
• C
  V

Verse 2

• F – B♭ – G – C (×2)
  I – IV – II – V
• F – F7 – B♭
  I – I7 – IV
• B♭m – F (×2)
  iv – I
• A♭
  bIII

Bridge 1

• F – A♭ – F – B♭ – Gm – G – C
  I – bIII – I – IV – ii – II – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Outro

• F – A♭ – F
  I – bIII – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• A♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• G acts as V/V: it resolves to C.
• F7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to B♭.

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.