Yer Blues by The Beatles

Overview

Key: E major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 8

Form: Verse → Verse → Verse → Verse → Verse → Solo → Solo → 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

Verse 1

• E – A – E – G – B – E – E/G♯ – A – E/B – B
  I – IV – I – bIII – V – I – I⁶ – IV – I⁶₄ – V

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Verse 3

• E – B7 (×2)
  I – V7
• E – A – E – G – B – E – E/G♯ – A – E/B – B
  I – IV – I – bIII – V – I – I⁶ – IV – I⁶₄ – V

Verse 4

Same chords as Verse 3.

Verse 5

• E – B7 (×2)
  I – V7
• E – A – E – G – B – E – B
  I – IV – I – bIII – V – I – V

Solo 1

• E – A – E – G – B – E – B
  I – IV – I – bIII – V – I – V

Solo 2

• E – A – E – G – B
  I – IV – I – bIII – V

Outro

• E – A – E – G – B – E – E/G♯ – A – E/B – B – E
  I – IV – I – bIII – V – I – I⁶ – IV – I⁶₄ – V – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, E 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.