She Said She Said by The Beatles

Overview

Key: B♭ major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 8

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

• B♭
  I

Verse 1

• B♭ – A♭ – E♭ (×5)
  I – bVII – IV
• B♭
  I

Verse 2

• B♭ – A♭add9 – E♭ (×3)
  I – bVIIadd9 – IV
• B♭ – A♭ – E♭ (×2)
  I – bVII – IV
• B♭
  I

Bridge 1

• B♭ – A♭ (×2)
  I – bVII
• B♭ – Fm
  I – v
• B♭ – E♭ (×2)
  I – IV

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro

• B♭
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• A♭add9 (bVIIadd9) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ minor.
• Fm (v) is borrowed from the parallel key, B♭ 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.