The Beatles- I want to tell you
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- Created on: 20-04-24 12:29
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- The Beatles- I want to tell you
- Instrumentation
- Conventional pop song set up: Electric guitar (lead and rhythm) bass guitar, drums, lead and backing vocals
- Lead guitar played through Leslie Cabinet
- Close harmony vocals- high- Lennon and McCartney
- Lead vocals by Harrison- narrow range mainly of 4th- A to D
- Percussion- Drums (Ringo), maracas (Ringo), tambourine (John),clapping
- Studio Effects- fade in and fade out
- Texture
- Melody dominated homophony
- Ostinato- looped & eectronically replayed
- Structure
- 1.Intro- 4 bars repeated
- 2. Verse 1- 11-bars (unusual length)
- 3. Verse 2
- 4. Bridge (b.27)- 8 bars
- 5. Verse 3
- 4. Bridge (b.27)- 8 bars
- 3. Verse 2
- 2. Verse 1- 11-bars (unusual length)
- Strophic
- Irregular phrase lengths
- 1.Intro- 4 bars repeated
- Tonality
- A major
- A tonic pedal
- Blues effect from flattened #2nd and b7th
- No modulation
- Harmony
- Intro- over A pedal with tonic and subdominant chords alternating
- A7, D(sus4), D/A
- Verses- 3 and a half bars on A before moving up a tone to B7 (secondary dominant) then 4 bars of E7 (dominant of A)- Distinctive minor (9th)
- Acciacaturas show the indian influence- Guitar mimics sitar
- Extreme dissonance between guitar and voice and the chords of the verse
- Bridge- on Bm (supertonic). B diminished chords.
- Bm, Bdim, (chromatic shift) A, B7, Bm, Bdim, A
- Coda/Outro- Based on intro and “I’ve got time” vocal line from verse- Guitar riff from intro and melismatic chanting (Layered vocals through Leslie Cabinet
- Intro- over A pedal with tonic and subdominant chords alternating
- Melody
- Harrison uses narrow vocal range from E above middle C to D
- Melody generally conjunct
- Largest interval- perfect 4th
- Harmonising above main melody by backing vocals - triadic
- Blues effect in guitar riff from B# an G natural
- Outro- repeat of last 3 notes of verse
- Melismatic chant through Leslie Cabinet- sounds like “1000 Tibetan monks”- mirrors chord in verse
- Rhythm, Tempo, Metre
- Reoccurring crotchet triplet rhythm in guitar riff, creating cross rhythms
- Use of syncopationsand dotted rhythms
- Bass riff electronically looped creating rhythmic ostinato
- Instrumentation
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