Things We Said Today by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 10 · 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

• Am
  i

Verse 1

• Am – Em (×7)
  i – v
• Am – C – C9 – F – B♭
  i – bIII – bIII9 – bVI – bII
• Am – Em (×2)
  i – v
• Am
  i

Verse 2

• Am – Em (×4)
  i – v
• Am – C – C9 – F – B♭
  i – bIII – bIII9 – bVI – bII
• Am – Em (×2)
  i – v
• A
  I

Bridge 1

• A – D – B – E7 – A – D – B – B♭
  I – IV – II – V7 – I – IV – II – bII

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 2.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

• Am – Em (×4)
  i – v
• Am – C – C9 – F – B♭
  i – bIII – bIII9 – bVI – bII
• Am – Em (×2)
  i – v

Outro

• Am
  i

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.
• D (IV) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.
• C9 acts as V/bVI: it resolves to F.
• B acts as V/V: it resolves to E7.

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.