Your Mother Should Know by The Beatles

Overview

Key: C major · Chords used: 13 · 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

• Am
  vi

Verse 1

• Am – Fmaj7 – A/E – Dm – G7 – C – C/B – A7 – D7 – G7 – C
  vi – IVmaj7 – VI⁶₄ – ii – V7 – I – I (bass B) – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

Verse 2

• E – Am – Fmaj7 – A – Dm – G7 – C – C/B – A7 – D7 – G7 – C
  III – vi – IVmaj7 – VI – ii – V7 – I – I (bass B) – VI7 – II7 – V7 – I

Bridge 1

• E – Am – Fmaj7 – Dm/F – G7sus2 – C – E
  III – vi – IVmaj7 – ii⁶ – V7sus2 – I – III

Verse 3

• Am – Fmaj7 – A – Dm – G7 – C – C/B
  vi – IVmaj7 – VI – ii – V7 – I – I (bass B)
• A – D7 – G7 – C (×2)
  VI – II7 – V7 – I

Bridge 2

• E – Am – Fmaj7 – Dm/F – G7sus2 – C
  III – vi – IVmaj7 – ii⁶ – V7sus2 – I

Verse 4

• E – Am – Fmaj7 – A/E – Dm – G7 – C – C/B – A – D7 – G7 – C
  III – vi – IVmaj7 – VI⁶₄ – ii – V7 – I – I (bass B) – VI – II7 – V7 – I

Outro

• A – D7 – G7 – C (×2)
  VI – II7 – V7 – I

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• A/E acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm.
• D7 acts as V/V: it resolves to G7.
• E acts as V/vi: it resolves to Am.
• A acts as V/ii: it resolves to Dm.

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.