In My Room by The Beach Boys

Overview

Key: B major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 8

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

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). 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

• B – G♯m7 – C♯m7 – F♯7
  I – vi7 – ii7 – V7

Verse 1

• B – A – B – G♯m7
  I – bVII – I – vi7

Chorus 1

• C♯m7 – A – F♯ – B – A – B
  ii7 – bVII – V – I – bVII – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Bridge

• G♯m7
  vi7
• F♯ – G♯m (×2)
  V – vi
• F♯ – B – G♯m7 – F♯ – C♯m7 – Esus4 – F♯
  V – I – vi7 – V – ii7 – IVsus4 – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

• C♯m7 – A – F♯
  ii7 – bVII – V
• B – A (×6)
  I – bVII

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.
• Esus4 (IVsus4) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0270, CC0), 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.