You Won't See Me by The Beatles

Overview

Key: A major · Chords used: 11 · Sections: 8

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

• D – A
  IV – I

Verse 1

• A – B – D (×2)
  I – II – IV
• A – A7 – D – Dm – A – B
  I – I7 – IV – iv – I – II
• D – A (×2)
  IV – I

Verse 2

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 1

• Bm – Bm7♭5/D – Ddim7 – A – B – E7sus4 – E
  ii – iiø⁶₅ – iv°7 – I – II – V7sus4 – V

Verse 3

Same chords as Verse 1.

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 4

• A – B7 – D (×2)
  I – II7 – IV
• A – A7 – D – Dm – A – B7
  I – I7 – IV – iv – I – II7
• D – A (×2)
  IV – I

Outro

• A – B7 – D – A
  I – II7 – IV – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• Dm (iv) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• Bm7♭5/D (iiø⁶₅) is borrowed from the parallel key, A minor.
• B acts as V/V: it resolves to E7sus4.
• A7 acts as V/IV: it resolves to D.

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.