Rocky Raccoon by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 11

Form: Intro → Intro → Chorus → Verse → Verse → Part → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → 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.

Section by section

Intro 1

• Am7
  vi7

Intro 2

• Am7 – Dsus4 – D – G7 – C – C/B (×2)
  vi7 – IIsus4 – II – V7 – I – I (bass B)

Chorus 1

• Am7 – Dsus4 – D – G7 – C – C/B (×2)
  vi7 – IIsus4 – II – V7 – I – I (bass B)

Verse 1

• Am7 – Dsus4 – D – G7 – C – C/B (×2)
  vi7 – IIsus4 – II – V7 – I – I (bass B)

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Part

• Am7 – Dsus4 – D – G7 – C – C/B
  vi7 – IIsus4 – II – V7 – I – I (bass B)

Chorus 2

• Am7 – D7 – G7 – C (×2)
  vi7 – II7 – V7 – I

Verse 3

• Am7 – D – G7 – C – C/B – Am7 – Dsus4 – D – G7 – C – C/B
  vi7 – II – V7 – I – I (bass B) – vi7 – IIsus4 – II – V7 – I – I (bass B)

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Chorus 4

• Am7 – D7 – G – C – C/B – Am7 – D7 – G7
  vi7 – II7 – V – I – I (bass B) – vi7 – II7 – V7

Outro

• C
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• D acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.

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.