I'll Cry Instead by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 7

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

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

• G
  I

Verse 1

• G – D7 – C7 – G – D – G
  I – V7 – IV7 – I – V – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• Bm – A – A7 – D – Em – A – D
  iii – II – II7 – V – vi – II – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

• Bm – A – D – Em – A – D
  iii – II – V – vi – II – V

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A acts as V/V: it resolves to D.
• A7 acts as V/V: it resolves to D.

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.