I'll Follow the Sun by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 8

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

• C – G – F – C
  I – V – IV – I

Verse 1

• G – F7 – C – D – C – Em/B – D – G – C – G – F – C
  V – IV7 – I – II – I – iii⁶₄ – II – V – I – V – IV – I

Verse 2

• G – F7 – C – D – C – Em/B – D – G – C – C7
  V – IV7 – I – II – I – iii⁶₄ – II – V – I – I7

Bridge 1

• Dm – Fm – C – C7 – Dm – Fm – C – Dm
  ii – iv – I – I7 – ii – iv – I – ii

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• G – F7 – C – D – C – Em/B – D – G – C – C7
  V – IV7 – I – II – I – iii⁶₄ – II – V – I – I7

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Fm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• D acts as V/V: 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.