Nowhere Man by The Beatles

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 10

Form: Verse → Verse → Bridge → Solo → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Part

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

• E – B – A – E – A6 – Am – E
  I – V – IV – I – IV6 – iv – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• G♯m – A (×3)
  iii – IV
• B
  V

Solo

• E – B – A – E – A6 – Am – E
  I – V – IV – I – IV6 – iv – I

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 3

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 5

Same chords as Verse 1.

Part

• A6 – Am – E (×2)
  IV6 – iv – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Am (iv) 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.