Wild Honey Pie by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 5 · Sections: 7

Form: Break → Chorus → Break → Chorus → Break → 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.

Section by section

Break 1

• G7 – F7 – E7 – E♭7 – D7
  I7 – bVII7 – VI7 – bVI7 – V7

Chorus 1

• G7
  I7

Break 2

Same chords as Break 1.

Chorus 2

Same chords as Chorus 1.

Break 3

Same chords as Break 1.

Chorus 3

• G7 – F7
  I7 – bVII7

Outro

• G7 – F7 – G7
  I7 – bVII7 – I7

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• F7 (bVII7) is borrowed from the parallel key, G 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.