Not a Second Time by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 8

Form: Verse → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Verse → Verse → Chorus → 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.

Key changes

• Chorus 1 moves to E minor.
• Verse 3 moves to G major.
• Chorus 2 moves to E minor.
• Outro moves to G major.

Section by section

Verse 1

• G – Em (×2)
  I – vi
• D – G – D
  V – I – V

Verse 2

• G – Em (×2)
  I – vi
• D – Am – D
  V – ii – V

Chorus 1

• Am – Bm – G – Em – Am – F♯dim/A – Bm – D7/A – Em
  iv – v – bIII – i – iv – ii°⁶ – v – bVII⁴₃ – i

Solo

• Am – Bm – G – Em – Am – Bm – D7/A – Em
  iv – v – bIII – i – iv – v – bVII⁴₃ – i

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 2.

Chorus 2

• Am – Bm – G – Em – Am – Bm – D7/A – Em
  iv – v – bIII – i – iv – v – bVII⁴₃ – i

Outro

• G – Em (×3)
  I – vi
• G
  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.