Till There Was You by The Beatles

Overview

Key: F major · Chords used: 19 · Sections: 9

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

• F – F♯dim – Gm – C9 (×2)
  I – #i° – ii – V9

Verse 1

• F – F♯dim – Gm – B♭m – F – Am – G♯m – Gm – C9 – F – Gm7 – C9
  I – #i° – ii – iv – I – iii – #ii – ii – V9 – I – ii7 – V9

Verse 2

• F – F♯dim – Gm – B♭m – F – Am – G♯m – Gm – C9 – F – F9
  I – #i° – ii – iv – I – iii – #ii – ii – V9 – I – I9

Bridge 1

• B♭ – B♭m – F – D9 – Gm – Gmmaj7 – G7 – C9 – C7
  IV – iv – I – VI9 – ii – iimaj7 – II7 – V9 – V7

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• F – F♯dim – Gm – B♭m – F – Am – G♯m – Gm – F♯7♯9 – F – F9
  I – #i° – ii – iv – I – iii – #ii – ii – #I7#9 – I – I9

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

• F – F♯dim – Gm – B♭m – F – Am – G♯m – Gm – C9 – F
  I – #i° – ii – iv – I – iii – #ii – ii – V9 – I

Outro

• C7 – B7 – C7/G – F – C♯ – F – Fmaj7
  V7 – #IV7 – V⁴₃ – I – #V – I – Imaj7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭m (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• C♯ (#V) is borrowed from the parallel key, F minor.
• D9 acts as V/ii: it resolves to Gm.
• G7 acts as V/V: it resolves to C9.

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.