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The basic backing track was recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in Barnes on 6 May 1969. Recording ran from 3 pm to 4 am the next morning. [8] McCartney sang lead and played piano, Lennon played an Epiphone Casino guitar, George Harrison played a Fender Telecaster guitar fed through a Leslie speaker, and Ringo Starr played drums. [9]
The song is in the key of E major, with some leaning to its relative minor of C#, and is in 4/4 time. Structurally, the song is complex and, as Alan Pollack states, contains three different variants of the verse. [8] The song also contains "jazzy parallel sevenths" in most of the chords, and has a live ending. [citation needed]
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese I Ching. The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for ...
Lennon wrote the song about his love for Yoko Ono. [4] It begins in 6 8 time, with an arpeggio guitar theme in D minor, progressing through E 7(♭ 9) and B ♭ 7 before cadencing on an A augmented chord. In this chord sequence, the F note is a drone. The bass and lead guitar ascend and descend with a riff derived from the D minor scale.
"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 ...
"Why Worry?" (Clannad song), a 1991 single "Why Worry Blues" by Jack Prentice (words) and Bud Shepard, George Webb and Vic Sell (music) for the silent film Why Worry? "Why Worry", a 1951 song with words by John Sexton and music by Ralph Edwards, recorded by Billy Cotton Band "Why Worry", a 1952 song by the Andrews Sisters
On 23 February while the Beatles filmed scenes for Help! in The Bahamas, engineers Smith and Malcolm Davies mixed the song for stereo twice, preferring the second mix over the first. [8] On 30 March the Beatles recorded more overdubs onto the song. [9] An electric piano and Harrison's original guitar solo were erased from the original tape.
"It Won't Be Long" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released as the opening track on their second UK album With the Beatles (1963), and was the first original song recorded for it. [1] Although credited to Lennon–McCartney , it was primarily a composition by John Lennon , with Paul McCartney assisting with the lyrics and ...