Misery by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 4 · Sections: 8

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

• F – G – C – Am – G
  IV – V – I – vi – V

Verse 1

• C – F (×2)
  I – IV
• G – C – Am
  V – I – vi

Verse 2

• C – F (×2)
  I – IV
• G – C
  V – I

Bridge 1

• Am – C – Am – G
  vi – I – vi – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Outro

• Am – C (×3)
  vi – I

Chord vocabulary

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.