Hard Days Night, you've been playing it wrong!

rossyamaha

The Whole Lotta Love thread reminded me of this. It's very theory heavy, gets very complicated but is rather interesting.

Realistically everyone will say fuck it and play a chord that sounds about right but for the perfectionists...

http://www.beatlesbible.com/features/hard-days-night-chord/

 

octatonic

Yup, I heard about this a few years ago during my music degree.

Beatles devotees fetishise this chord to a fairly ridiculous level.

I often thrown in a cluster of b5 intervals just to be contrary.

rossyamaha

octatonic said:

I often thrown in a cluster of b5 intervals just to be contrary.

Don't know what that means. Didn't understand the Beatles thing either. I'm really really crap at theory. Suppose I should learn something at some point.

PolarityMan

I guarantee you I have never played that song wrong...not even once.

bloodandtears

PolarityMan said:

I guarantee you I have never played that song ...not even once.

Corrected for you... and ditto

not_the_dj

I've played it wrong for years...but people still recognise it and dance to it

We covered it in a "chord of the week" thread here a while back.

In a single guitar band I use:

--3--

--3--

--5--

--3--

--5--

--3--

chrisj1602

not_the_dj said:

I've played it wrong for years...but people still recognise it and dance to it

We covered it in a "chord of the week" thread here a while back.

In a single guitar band I use:

--3--

--3--

--5--

--3--

--5--

--3--

That's what I use for it.

tone1

not_the_dj said:

I've played it wrong for years...but people still recognise it and dance to it

We covered it in a "chord of the week" thread here a while back.

In a single guitar band I use:

--3--

--3--

--5--

--3--

--5--

--3--

That's the chord I use playing Roxanne by the Police 

exocet

The audio clip from Randy Bachman appears to contradict the accompanying text? He says that the source tapes were transferred to digital....makes sense....and that he got Giles Martin to play track 1....then adding the bass via track 2. The text states the originals were recorded on a 4 track with lots of stuff on track 1 I.e Bass part as well, that would also make sense. Can't see how Randy's story stacks up? His description of the chord is also different to the text ie it's not a straight F add 9 it's two chords F add 9 plus a D sus4? Not surprised most people will play it as tabbed in the earlier comments..still sounds good