Julia by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 9

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

Verse 1

• D – Bm7 – F♯m (×2)
  I – vi7 – iii
• A
  V

Chorus 1

• D – Bm7 – Am7 – Am9 – B – G9 – Gm7 – D – Bm7 – F♯m – A
  I – vi7 – v7 – v9 – VI – IV9 – iv7 – I – vi7 – iii – V

Chorus 2

• D – Bm7 – Am7 – Am9 – B – G9 – Gm7 – D – Bm7 – F♯m – A – D
  I – vi7 – v7 – v9 – VI – IV9 – iv7 – I – vi7 – iii – V – I

Bridge

• C♯m – D – Bm7 – F♯m7 – F♯m6 – D/F♯ – F♯m
  vii – I – vi7 – iii7 – iii6 – I⁶ – iii

Chorus 3

• D – Bm7 – Am7 – Am9 – B – G7 – Gm7 – D – Bm7 – F♯m – A – D
  I – vi7 – v7 – v9 – VI – IV7 – iv7 – I – vi7 – iii – V – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

• D – Bm7 – Am7 – Am9 – B – G7 – Gm7 – D – Bm7 – F♯m – A
  I – vi7 – v7 – v9 – VI – IV7 – iv7 – I – vi7 – iii – V

Chorus 5

• D – Bm7 – Am7 – Am9 – B – G9 – Gm7 – D – Bm7 – F♯m – D
  I – vi7 – v7 – v9 – VI – IV9 – iv7 – I – vi7 – iii – I

Outro

• F♯m – D – F♯m – A – Dmaj7
  iii – I – iii – V – Imaj7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Am7 (v7) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• Gm7 (iv7) is borrowed from the parallel key, D 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.