Money by The Beatles

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 10 · Sections: 8

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Verse → Break → Verse → Chorus → Chorus

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

• Em – A – Em – A – G (×2)
  i – IV – i – IV – bIII
• B7♯9 – A7 – Em – A – Em – B7
  V7#9 – IV7 – i – IV – i – V7

Verse 1

• E – A – E – A7 – E – B7 – A7 – E7 – B7
  I – IV – I – IV7 – I – V7 – IV7 – I7 – V7

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 3

• E – A – E
  I – IV – I
• A7 – E7 – B7 (×2)
  IV7 – I7 – V7

Break

• E – A – Em – A – G
  I – IV – i – IV – bIII
• Em – A (×2)
  i – IV
• G – B7♯9 – A7♯9 – Em – A – Em – B7
  bIII – V7#9 – IV7#9 – i – IV – i – V7

Verse 4

• E – A (×2)
  I – IV
• E – B7 – A7 – E7 – B7
  I – V7 – IV7 – I7 – V7

Chorus 1

• E – A (×2)
  I – IV
• E – B7 – A7 – E7 – B7
  I – V7 – IV7 – I7 – V7

Chorus 2

• E – A – E – B7 – A7 – E – A – E/B – E7
  I – IV – I – V7 – IV7 – I – IV – I⁶₄ – I7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Em (i) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• G (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.
• B7♯9 (V7#9) is borrowed from the parallel key, E minor.

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.