You Never Give Me Your Money by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A minor · Chords used: 22 · Sections: 3

Form: Intro → Part → Part

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

• Part 1 moves to C major.
• Part 2 moves to A minor.

Section by section

Intro

• Am7 – Dm9 – Dm – G7 – Csus4 – C – Fmaj7 – Bdim – E – Am (×3)
  i7 – iv9 – iv – bVII7 – bIIIsus4 – bIII – bVImaj7 – ii° – V – i
• G
  bVII

Part 1

• C – E – Am – C7 – F – G (×2)
  I – III – vi – I7 – IV – V
• C – B♭ – F (×5)
  I – bVII – IV
• C – D – E♭ – G – C – A – E♭ – C – G♭ – E♭ – A – G♭ – G – A♭
  I – II – bIII – V – I – VI – bIII – I – bV – bIII – VI – bV – V – bVI

Part 2

• A – B – C – E – A
  I – II – bIII – V – I
• Dm – G/D (×2)
  iv – bVII⁶₄
• A – B
  I – II
• C – G/B – A (×13)
  bIII – bVII⁶ – I
• C – G/B
  bIII – bVII⁶

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• B♭ (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• E♭ (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• A♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, C minor.
• A (I) is borrowed from the parallel key, A major.
• E acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am.
• C7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to F.

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.