Within You Without You by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C♯ major · Chords used: 3 · Sections: 6

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Chorus → Solo → Chorus

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

• C♯
  I

Verse 1

• C♯ – F♯/C♯
  I – IV⁶₄

Verse 2

• C♯
  I

Chorus 1

• F♯/C♯ – C♯ – F♯/C♯ – C♯sus4
  IV⁶₄ – I – IV⁶₄ – Isus4

Solo

• C♯
  I

Chorus 2

• F♯/C♯ – C♯ – F♯/C♯ – C♯sus4 – C♯
  IV⁶₄ – I – IV⁶₄ – Isus4 – I

Chord vocabulary

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.