Mr. Moonlight by The Beatles

Overview

Key: F♯ major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Solo → 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♯
  I

Verse 1

• F♯ – F♯sus4 (×5)
  I – Isus4
• F♯ – B
  I – IV
• F♯ – F♯sus4 (×2)
  I – Isus4
• D♯m – B – F♯ – F♯sus4 – F♯
  vi – IV – I – Isus4 – I

Verse 2

• B – F♯ – D♯7 – G♯ – C♯7
  IV – I – VI7 – II – V7
• F♯ – F♯sus4 (×9)
  I – Isus4
• F♯
  I

Solo

• B – F♯ – D♯7 – G♯ – C♯7
  IV – I – VI7 – II – V7
• F♯ – F♯sus4 (×2)
  I – Isus4
• F♯
  I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Outro

• B – F♯ – D♯7 – G♯ – C♯7
  IV – I – VI7 – II – V7
• F♯ – F♯sus4 (×5)
  I – Isus4

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♯ acts as V/V: it resolves to C♯7.

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.