You Like Me Too Much by The Beatles

Overview

Key: G major · Chords used: 15 · Sections: 9

Form: Intro → Verse → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Break → 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

• G – B♭ – D7♯9 – G
  I – bIII – V7#9 – I

Verse 1

• Am – C – G (×2)
  ii – IV – I
• Bm – Bm7 – D7 – G – C – D
  iii – iii7 – V7 – I – IV – V

Verse 2

• Am – Am7 – Cmaj7 – G – Am7 – Cmaj7 – G7 – Bm7 – D7 – G – C – D7
  ii – ii7 – IVmaj7 – I – ii7 – IVmaj7 – I7 – iii7 – V7 – I – IV – V7

Bridge 1

• Em – A – Bm – A – E – A – D7
  vi – II – iii – II – VI – II – V7

Verse 3

• Am7 – Cmaj7 – G7 (×2)
  ii7 – IVmaj7 – I7
• Bm7 – D7 – G – C – D7
  iii7 – V7 – I – IV – V7

Break

• G – C – G – D – D7
  I – IV – I – V – V7

Bridge 2

• G – C – D7 – Em – A – Bm – A – E – A – D
  I – IV – V7 – vi – II – iii – II – VI – II – V

Verse 4

• Am7 – Cmaj7 – G7 (×2)
  ii7 – IVmaj7 – I7
• Bm7 – D7 – G – C – D7 – G7 – C – D
  iii7 – V7 – I – IV – V7 – I7 – IV – V

Outro

• G – B♭ – D7♯9 – G
  I – bIII – V7#9 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• D7♯9 (V7#9) is borrowed from the parallel key, G minor.
• G7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to C.
• A acts as V/V: it resolves to D7.

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.