I Need You by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 10 · 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

• A – Asus2 – Asus4 – A
  I – Isus2 – Isus4 – I

Verse 1

• A – D – A – Asus2 – Asus4 – A – D – A – A7 – Asus4 – A – F♯m – C♯m – F♯m – Bm – A – Asus2 – Asus4 – A
  I – IV – I – Isus2 – Isus4 – I – IV – I – I7 – Isus4 – I – vi – iii – vi – ii – I – Isus2 – Isus4 – I

Verse 2

• A – D – A – Asus2 – Asus4 (×2)
  I – IV – I – Isus2 – Isus4
• A – F♯m – C♯m – F♯m – Bm – A – Asus2 – Asus4 – A
  I – vi – iii – vi – ii – I – Isus2 – Isus4 – I

Bridge 1

• D – E – A – D – E – B – E
  IV – V – I – IV – V – 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♯m – D – A – Asus2 – Asus4 – A
  vi – IV – I – Isus2 – Isus4 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B acts as V/V: it resolves to E.

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.