The Curious Case Of That "Hard Day's Night" Chord • The intro chord to the Beatles' classic has always had an impossible sound: there were allegedly no overdubs, but definitely more notes than John, Paul, and George could've played. Professor Brown of Dalhousie University cracked the chord recently, and it only took him six months and crazy mathematical techniques. The answer? George Martin played five notes on the piano. Finally you can get some sleep. Listen and learn at Wired.
Posted at 3:55 PM
Tags: George Martin | The Beatles
Why didn't anybody think to just, you know, ASK?
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I'd like to know how it was mystery in the first place: listening on headphones, you can hear the piano pretty clearly.
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hey, um, i'm 17, and i figured out 3 years ago that it was a Gsus2sus4/6/add12. fucking idiots.
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add12?? now youre just making shit up, little prodigy.
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Crazy mathematical techniques indeed. i mean, to figure out exactly who was sitting at the piano.., wow!
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