There's a Place by The Beatles

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 9 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → 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
  V
• Emaj7 – A (×2)
  Imaj7 – IV
• B
  V

Verse 1

• E – A (×2)
  I – IV
• E – C♯m – B – G♯m – A – Emaj7 – A – F♯m – C♯m – B
  I – vi – V – iii – IV – Imaj7 – IV – ii – vi – V

Verse 2

• E – A (×2)
  I – IV
• E – C♯m – B – A – B
  I – vi – V – IV – V

Bridge

• C♯m – F♯ – E – G♯ (×2)
  vi – II – I – III
• C♯m – B
  vi – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro

• E – A (×3)
  I – IV
• E
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♯ acts as V/vi: it resolves to C♯m.

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.