Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) by The Beatles

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 8 · Sections: 3

Form: Intro → Chorus → Chorus

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 2 moves to G major.

Section by section

Intro

• F
  I

Chorus 1

• F – A♭
  I – bIII
• B♭ – F (×2)
  IV – I
• A♭ – B♭ – F – G – C – B♭ – F – G – D
  bIII – IV – I – II – V – IV – I – II – VI

Chorus 2

• G – B♭
  I – bIII
• C – G (×2)
  IV – I
• B♭ – C – G – A – D – C – G – A – Cadd9 – G – B♭ – C – G
  bIII – IV – I – II – V – IV – I – II – IVadd9 – I – bIII – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• B♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• G acts as V/V: it resolves to C.
• A acts as V/V: it resolves to D.

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.