Love Me Do by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 12

Form: Intro → Verse → Interlude → Verse → Interlude → Bridge → Verse → Interlude → Solo → Transition → Verse → Outro

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

• G – C (×3)
  I – IV
• G
  I

Verse 1

• G – C (×3)
  I – IV

Interlude 1

• G – C (×2)
  I – IV

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Interlude 2

• G – C – G
  I – IV – I

Bridge

• D – C – G (×2)
  V – IV – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Interlude 3

Same chords as Interlude 2.

Solo

• D – C – G (×2)
  V – IV – I

Transition

• G – D
  I – V

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro

• G – C (×4)
  I – IV
• G
  I

Chord vocabulary

Chord	Roman numeral	Role	Heard in
G	I	Home chord (tonic)	Intro, Verse, Interlude, Bridge, Solo, Transition, Outro
C	IV	In the key	Intro, Verse, Interlude, Bridge, Solo, Outro
D	V	In the key	Bridge, Solo, Transition

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0050, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Cross-check: 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). Independently transcribed; it matches this page's chords closely (similarity 100%).
• Verified: two independent expert transcriptions agree on this song's harmony.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.