If I Fell by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse → 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

• E♭m – D – D♭ – B♭m – E♭m – D – Em7 – A
  bii – I – bI – bvi – bii – I – ii7 – V

Verse 1

• D – Em – F♯m – Fdim – Em7 – A (×2)
  I – ii – iii – biii° – ii7 – V
• D – Gm – A
  I – iv – V

Verse 2

• D – Em – F♯m – Fdim – Em7 – A (×2)
  I – ii – iii – biii° – ii7 – V
• D9 – G – Gm – D – A7
  I9 – IV – iv – I – V7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Verse 4

• D – Em – F♯m – Fdim – Em7 – A (×2)
  I – ii – iii – biii° – ii7 – V
• D – Gm
  I – iv

Outro

• D – Gm – D
  I – iv – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Gm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• D9 acts as V/IV: it resolves to G.

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.