Kansas City- Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 8

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

• D – G7 – C7 – G7 – C – C♯ – D7
  V – I7 – IV7 – I7 – IV – #IV – V7

Verse 1

• G – C – G – D – C – G – C – C♯ – D
  I – IV – I – V – IV – I – IV – #IV – V

Verse 2

• G – C – G – D – C – G – C – C♯ – D7
  I – IV – I – V – IV – I – IV – #IV – V7

Solo

• G
  I
• C – G – D (×2)
  IV – I – V

Verse 3

• G – C – G – D – C – G – D7
  I – IV – I – V – IV – I – V7

Verse 4

• G
  I
• C – G – D (×2)
  IV – I – V
• C – C♯ – D
  IV – #IV – V

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 4.

Verse 6

• G
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to C.

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.