What You're Doing by The Beatles

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 7 · 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

• D – G (×2)
  I – IV

Verse 1

• D – G (×2)
  I – IV
• Bm – G – D – G
  vi – IV – I – IV

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• Bm – G – Bm – E – A
  vi – IV – vi – II – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Solo

• D – G (×2)
  I – IV
• Bm – G – D
  vi – IV – I

Bridge 2

• G – Bm (×2)
  IV – vi
• Em – A
  ii – V

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 1.

Outro

• D – G (×2)
  I – IV
• D – G7 (×2)
  I – IV7
• D
  I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• E acts as V/V: it resolves to A.

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.