Michelle by The Beatles

Overview

Key: F minor · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 11

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

• Fm/C – Eaug – Fm7 – Fm6/C – C♯maj7/E♯ – B♭m/F – C♯/E♯ – C
  i⁶₄ – VII+ – i7 – i6 (bass C) – #Vmaj⁶₅ – iv⁶₄ – #V⁶ – V

Verse 1

• F – B♭m7 – E♭6
  I – iv7 – bVII6
• Bdim7 – C (×2)
  #iv°7 – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• Fm – A♭7 – D♭ – C – Fm – Fm/C – Eaug – Fm7 – Fm6/C – C♯maj7/E♯ – C
  i – bIII7 – bVI – V – i – i⁶₄ – VII+ – i7 – i6 (bass C) – #Vmaj⁶₅ – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Solo

• F – B♭m7 – E♭6
  I – iv7 – bVII6
• Bdim7 – C (×2)
  #iv°7 – V

Bridge 3

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro 1

• Fm/C – Eaug – Fm7 – Fm6/C – C♯maj7/E♯ – C
  i⁶₄ – VII+ – i7 – i6 (bass C) – #Vmaj⁶₅ – V

Outro 2

• F – B♭m7 – E♭6
  I – iv7 – bVII6
• Bdim7 – C (×2)
  #iv°7 – V
• F – B♭m7 – E♭6
  I – iv7 – bVII6

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, F major.
• A♭7 acts as V/bVI: it resolves to D♭.

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.