I Will by The Beatles

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 14 · Sections: 5

Form: Verse → 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

Verse 1

• F – Dm – Gm7 – C – F – Dm – Am – F7 – B♭ – C – Dm – F – B♭ – C – F – Dm – Gm7 – Cadd11
  I – vi – ii7 – V – I – vi – iii – I7 – IV – V – vi – I – IV – V – I – vi – ii7 – Vadd11

Verse 2

• F – Dm – Gm7 – C – F – Dm – Am – F7 – B♭ – C – Dm – F – B♭ – C – F – F7
  I – vi – ii7 – V – I – vi – iii – I7 – IV – V – vi – I – IV – V – I – I7

Bridge

• B♭ – Am – Dm – Gm – C – F – F7 – B♭ – Am – Dm – G – C
  IV – iii – vi – ii – V – I – I7 – IV – iii – vi – II – V

Verse 3

• F – Dm – Gm7 – C – F – Dm – Am – F7
  I – vi – ii7 – V – I – vi – iii – I7
• B♭ – C – Dm – B♭m/D♭ – F/C (×3)
  IV – V – vi – iv⁶ – I⁶₄
• Bm7 – Gm – C
  #iv7 – ii – V

Outro

• D♭ – F – B♭ – Am – Dm – Gm – C – F
  bVI – I – IV – iii – vi – ii – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m/D♭ (iv⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• D♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• F7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to B♭.
• G acts as V/V: it resolves to C.

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.