When I Get Home by The Beatles

Overview

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

Form: Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Verse → Chorus → Bridge → Verse → Chorus → 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.

Key changes

• Verse 1 moves to C major.
• Chorus 2 moves to A major.
• Verse 2 moves to C major.
• Chorus 3 moves to A major.
• Bridge moves to C major.
• Chorus 4 moves to A major.

Section by section

Chorus 1

• A – D9 – G – Am – G
  I – IV9 – bVII – i – bVII

Verse 1

• C – F (×3)
  I – IV
• G
  V

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 3

• A – D9 – G – Am
  I – IV9 – bVII – i

Bridge

• C – Am (×2)
  I – vi
• F – G (×2)
  IV – V
• Am – G
  vi – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Chorus 4

• A – D9 – G – A
  I – IV9 – bVII – I

Outro

• D9 – G – C
  IV9 – bVII – bIII

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Am (i) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• C (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, A 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.