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"I'm Down" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was released on a non-album single as the B-side to "Help!" in July 1965. The song originated in McCartney's attempt to write a song in the style of Little Richard, whose song "Long Tall Sally" the band regularly covered.
The unusual chord progression is an example of the Beatles' use of chords for added harmonic expression, [28] a device that Harrison adopted from Lennon's approach to melody. [29] Musicologist Walter Everett describes the composition as "a tour de force of altered scale degrees". He adds that, such is the ambiguity throughout, "its tonal ...
"A Day in the Life" appears on many top songs lists. It placed twelfth on CBC's 50 Tracks, the second highest Beatles song on the list after "In My Life". [113] It placed first in Q magazine's list of the 50 greatest British songs of all time, and was at the top of Mojo 's 101 Greatest Beatles' Songs, as decided by a panel of musicians and ...
Harrison likened "If I Needed Someone" to "a million other songs" that are based on a guitarist's finger movements around the D major chord. [22] [nb 3] The song is founded on a riff played on a Rickenbacker 360/12, [24] [25] which was the twelve-string electric guitar that McGuinn had adopted as the Byrds' signature instrument after seeing Harrison playing one in A Hard Day's Night.
Influenced somewhat by the Shirelles, [3] "When I Get Home" is essentially a rock and roll number, but with unusual chord progressions. Lennon liked this particular ploy, and used it on many of his songs at the time. Typical also of this period of the Beatles is the vocal leap into falsetto.
Musically, the song is founded on a driving funk beat, with few chord changes and a simple melody in the key of D major. [7] [8] (The refrain is a 12 bar blues in D. The main chord is D7(♯ 9), also used in "Drive My Car" and "Taxman".) Paul McCartney said of this song, "John and I would like to do songs with just one note like 'Long Tall ...
[4] The actual meaning of the term "Aeolian cadence" is that a major key song resolves on the vi chord, which is the tonic chord of the relative minor key (the Mahler ends on the major tonic with an "added 6th," not on a VI chord.) The term derives from the fact that the Aeolian mode is rooted on the sixth step of the major scale.
"In My Life" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released on their 1965 studio album, Rubber Soul. Credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership, the song is one of only a few in which there is dispute over the primary author; John Lennon wrote the lyrics, but he and Paul McCartney later disagreed over who wrote the melody. [3]