Martha My Dear by The Beatles

Overview

Key: E♭ major · Chords used: 21 · Sections: 8

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

• E♭ – Gm/D – Gm – Gm/F – C/E – C7/E – F – B♭ – A♭maj9
  I – iii⁶₄ – iii – iii (bass F) – VI⁶ – VI⁶₅ – II – V – IVmaj9
• B♭7 – A♭maj7 (×2)
  V7 – IVmaj7
• B♭7
  V7

Verse 1

• E♭ – Gm/D – Gm – Gm/F – C/E – C7/E – F – B♭ – A♭maj9
  I – iii⁶₄ – iii – iii (bass F) – VI⁶ – VI⁶₅ – II – V – IVmaj9
• B♭7 – A♭maj7 (×2)
  V7 – IVmaj7
• B♭7
  V7

Bridge 1

• Dm7 – Gm7 – F6
  vii7 – iii7 – II6
• Gm/C – C (×2)
  iii (bass C) – VI
• A – Dm – Gm7
  #IV – vii – iii7

Bridge 2

• Dm – G9 (×2)
  vii – III9
• C7 – B♭maj7 – Dm – Gm7 – E♭
  VI7 – Vmaj7 – vii – iii7 – I

Solo

• E♭ – Gm/D – Gm – Gm/F – C/E – C7/E – F – B♭ – A♭maj9
  I – iii⁶₄ – iii – iii (bass F) – VI⁶ – VI⁶₅ – II – V – IVmaj9
• B♭7 – A♭maj7 (×2)
  V7 – IVmaj7
• B♭7
  V7

Bridge 3

• Dm – Gm7 – F6
  vii – iii7 – II6
• Gm/C – C (×2)
  iii (bass C) – VI
• A – Dm – Gm7 – E♭
  #IV – vii – iii7 – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro

• E♭
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F acts as V/V: it resolves to B♭.

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.