One After 909 by The Beatles

Overview

Key: B major · Chords used: 6 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Solo → 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

Intro

• Bm – B
  i – I

Verse 1

• B – E – B – F♯ – B
  I – IV – I – V – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• E – B – C♯ – F♯ (×2)
  IV – I – II – V
• F♯aug
  V+

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• B – E – B – F♯ – B
  I – IV – I – V – I

Bridge 2

• E – B – C♯ – F♯ – E – B – C♯ – F♯aug
  IV – I – II – V – IV – I – II – V+

Verse 4

• B – E – B – F♯
  I – IV – I – V

Outro

• B – F♯ (×2)
  I – V
• B – F♯aug – B – E
  I – V+ – I – IV

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Bm (i) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.
• F♯aug (V+) is borrowed from the parallel key, B minor.
• C♯ acts as V/V: it resolves to F♯.

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.