I've Just Seen a Face by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 13

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus → Verse → Chorus ×2 → Chorus → 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

• A – F♯m – D – G6/D – D – E/B – D/A
  I – vi – IV – bVII6 (bass D) – IV – V⁶₄ – IV⁶₄

Verse 1

• A – F♯m – D – E – A
  I – vi – IV – V – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 1

• E
  V
• D – A (×2)
  IV – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Solo

• A – F♯m – D – E – A
  I – vi – IV – V – I

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 5

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 6

• E – D – A – D
  V – IV – I – IV

Outro

• E – A
  V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G6/D (bVII6 (bass D)) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.

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.