She Came in Through the Bathroom Window by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 17 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Bridge → Verse ×2 → Bridge

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

• E – E/D – E/C♯ – E/B – A
  V – V (bass D) – V (bass C♯) – V⁶₄ – I

Verse 1

• D – A (×3)
  IV – I

Bridge 1

• Dm – Dm/E – Dm/F – Dm/G – A – Dm – Dm/C – Dm/B – Dm/A – G – C – C/B – C/A – G – C – A
  iv – iv (bass E) – iv⁶ – iv (bass G) – I – iv – iv (bass C) – iv (bass B) – iv⁶₄ – bVII – bIII – bIII (bass B) – bIII (bass A) – bVII – bIII – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Dm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Dm/E (iv (bass E)) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Dm/F (iv⁶) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Dm/G (iv (bass G)) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Dm/C (iv (bass C)) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Dm/B (iv (bass B)) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Dm/A (iv⁶₄) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• C (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• C/B (bIII (bass B)) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• C/A (bIII (bass A)) 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.