No Reply by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 5

Form: Verse → 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

Verse 1

• C
  I
• F – G – C6 (×2)
  IV – V – I6
• Am – Em – Fmaj7 – Em – Dm – G – C6
  vi – iii – IVmaj7 – iii – ii – V – I6

Verse 2

• F – G – C6 (×2)
  IV – V – I6
• Am – Em – Fmaj7 – Em – F – G – C6
  vi – iii – IVmaj7 – iii – IV – V – I6

Bridge

• C – E – A – Dm – F (×2)
  I – III – VI – ii – IV
• C
  I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Outro

• Am – Em – Fmaj7 – Cmaj9
  vi – iii – IVmaj7 – Imaj9

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm.

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.