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A common type of three-chord song is the simple twelve-bar blues used in blues and rock and roll. Typically, the three chords used are the chords on the tonic, subdominant, and dominant (scale degrees I, IV and V): in the key of C, these would be the C, F and G chords. Sometimes the V 7 chord is used instead of V, for greater tension.
The quick transition from G chord to a flat-III (B ♭) is unusual, especially as its F-natural note is melodically sustained against the following D-major chord (with its concomitant F ♯) creating what musicologist Alan Pollack terms "the most bluesy moment of the entire song". [2] The verse opens with three repetitions of a simple four-note ...
"She Said She Said" is in the key of B ♭ Mixolydian, based on three chords: B ♭ (I), A ♭ (♭ VII), and E ♭ (IV). [37] The key centre shifts to E ♭ major during the bridge sections by means of an F minor (v) chord, a pivot chord that the Beatles had used to modulate to the subdominant before on "From Me to You" and "I Want to Hold ...
The Beatles regularly played the song live throughout 1964 and 1965. During his 2016 One on One tour, Paul McCartney played the song for the first time as a solo artist and for the first time by a Beatle in half a century. The Beatles played it for the last time on 31 August 1965 at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California. [42]
In a 1980 interview for Playboy magazine, Lennon described it as "one of my favourite songs of the Beatles". [5] In 2000, Mojo placed "Here, There and Everywhere" at number 4 on its list of the greatest songs of all time. [6] In April 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it 25th out of the "100 Greatest Beatles Songs". [8]
This technique of parallel minor/major contrast is common in the Beatles' songwriting and had been employed by Harrison in his 1968 songs "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" [27] and "Savoy Truffle". [ 28 ] [ nb 2 ] Everett likens the melody of the verses to the European folk music typified by Mary Hopkin 's debut single for the Beatles' Apple ...
"Long, Long, Long" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by George Harrison, the group's lead guitarist, while he and his bandmates were attending Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India, in early 1968.
A simple twelve-bar blues number extended into fourteen-bars, [10] the song uses only the chords I, IV and V. [9] One of the few Beatles songs to feature a simple verse form, [11] musicologist Alan W. Pollack suggests that, in the context of the Beatles' 1965 compositions, its simple format is stylistically regressive. [9]