I Want You by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D minor · Chords used: 19 · Sections: 8

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

• Dm – Dm/E – Dm/F – Dm/G – Dm/A – E9 – B♭7 – Aaug
  i – i (bass E) – i⁶ – i (bass G) – i⁶₄ – II9 – bVI7 – V+

Verse 1

• Am – C – D9sus4 – F – G – G♯aug – Am – A – Dm – F – C – B♭ – Dsus4(no5) – D♯sus4(no5) – Esus4(no5) – E9
  v – bVII – I9sus4 – bIII – IV – #IV+ – v – V – i – bIII – bVII – bVI – Isus4(no5) – #Isus4(no5) – IIsus4(no5) – II9

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• Dm – Dm/E – Dm/F – Dm/G – Dm/A – E9 – B♭7 – Aaug (×2)
  i – i (bass E) – i⁶ – i (bass G) – i⁶₄ – II9 – bVI7 – V+

Solo

• Am – C – D9sus4 – F – G – G♯aug – Am – A – Dm – F – C – B♭ – Dsus4(no5) – D♯sus4(no5) – Esus4(no5) – E9
  v – bVII – I9sus4 – bIII – IV – #IV+ – v – V – i – bIII – bVII – bVI – Isus4(no5) – #Isus4(no5) – IIsus4(no5) – II9

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 3

• Am – C – D9sus4 – F – G – G♯aug – Am – Dm – F – C – B♭ – Dsus4(no5) – D♯sus4(no5) – Esus4(no5) – E9
  v – bVII – I9sus4 – bIII – IV – #IV+ – v – i – bIII – bVII – bVI – Isus4(no5) – #Isus4(no5) – IIsus4(no5) – II9

Outro

• Dm – Dm/E – Dm/F – Dm/G
  i – i (bass E) – i⁶ – i (bass G)
• E9 – B♭7 – Aaug – Dm – Dm/E – Dm/F – Dm/G – Dm/A (×14)
  II9 – bVI7 – V+ – i – i (bass E) – i⁶ – i (bass G) – i⁶₄
• E9 – B♭7 – A
  II9 – bVI7 – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, D major.

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.