I'm Looking Through You by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 7 · 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

• A♭/E♭ – E♭
  I⁶₄ – V
• A♭ – D♭ (×4)
  I – IV

Verse 1

• B♭m – Fm – E♭ – A♭ – D♭ – B♭m – Fm – E♭ – Fm – B♭m – A♭ – D♭ – E♭ – A♭ – D♭ – B♭m
  ii – vi – V – I – IV – ii – vi – V – vi – ii – I – IV – V – I – IV – ii
• D♭ – A♭ (×4)
  IV – I
• D♭
  IV

Verse 2

• B♭m – Fm – E♭ – A♭ – D♭ – B♭m – Fm – E♭ – Fm – B♭m – A♭ – D♭ – E♭ – A♭ – D♭ – B♭m
  ii – vi – V – I – IV – ii – vi – V – vi – ii – I – IV – V – I – IV – ii
• D♭ – A♭ (×4)
  IV – I

Bridge 1

• D♭ – A♭ – D♭ – E♭sus4 – E♭
  IV – I – IV – Vsus4 – V

Verse 3

• A♭ – D♭ – B♭m – Fm – E♭ (×2)
  I – IV – ii – vi – V
• Fm – B♭m – A♭ – D♭ – E♭ – A♭ – D♭ – B♭m
  vi – ii – I – IV – V – I – IV – ii
• D♭ – A♭ (×4)
  IV – I

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

• A♭ – D♭ – B♭m – Fm – E♭ (×2)
  I – IV – ii – vi – V
• Fm – B♭m – A♭ – D♭ – E♭ – A♭ – D♭ – B♭m
  vi – ii – I – IV – V – I – IV – ii
• D♭ – A♭ (×10)
  IV – I

Chord vocabulary

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.