Piggies by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 13 · Sections: 10

Form: Intro → Verse → Intro → Verse → Intro → Bridge → Solo → Intro → 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 1

• A♭ – E♭ (×2)
  bI – bV

Verse 1

• A♭ – E♭ (×3)
  bI – bV
• Fm – B♭ (×2)
  bvi – bII
• E♭ – Fdim – F♯dim – Gdim
  bV – bvi° – vi° – bvii°

Intro 2

Same chords as Intro 1.

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Intro 3

• A♭ – E♭ – A♭ – C
  bI – bV – bI – bIII

Bridge

• B♭m – C – D♭ – A♭ – E♭ – B♭m – C – D♭ – E♭
  bii – bIII – bIV – bI – bV – bii – bIII – bIV – bV

Solo

• A♭ – E♭ (×3)
  bI – bV
• Fm – B♭ (×2)
  bvi – bII
• E♭ – Fdim – F♯dim – Gdim
  bV – bvi° – vi° – bvii°

Intro 4

Same chords as Intro 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro

• A♭
  bI
• E♭ – A♭m (×2)
  bV – bi
• E♭ – B♭ – E♭ – A – E
  bV – bII – bV – I – V

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A 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.