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| Subject | Re: The opening chord of "A Hard Day's Night." |
| Date | Sun, 1 Mar 2009 18:04:34 +0000 (UTC) |
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Very interesting read, thank you.
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From: "bob" <segarini@rogers.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:44:14 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: The opening chord of "A Hard Day's Night."
From an old friend. A great writer and guitarist from Seattle that led a womderful band called the Daily Flash that would have been the next big thing out of L.A if their bass player/lead vocalist hadn't have o.d'd on heroin on a bus stop in Hollywood.
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http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/20...
It's sometimes called "the most famous chord in rock n' roll." I have
wondered about this question for thirty-four years (all this time I'd been
thinking it is an odd hybrid G7/9/13). Here is a history of thought on the
controversy, including a list of nominated chords. It now turns out there is an answer. A mathematician applied Fourier
transforms to break the sound into its constituent parts. Here's the bottom
line:
The Beatles producer added a piano chord that included an F note, impossible to
play with the other notes on the guitar. The resulting chord was completely
different than anything found in songbooks and scores for the song, which is
one reason why Dr. Brown’s findings garnered international attention. He laughs
that he may be the only mathematician ever to be published in Guitar Player
magazine.
Here is a pdf of the researcher's findings. I thank Eric H. for the
pointer.
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