Song analysis: The Beatles - Something

Stuckfast

I generally love the Beatles but I can't stand Something. I think it's corny and naff and by far the worst track on Abbey Road, not excepting Maxwell's Silver Hammer. But that might just be me.

Talking of Abbey Road, I would love someone who knows about these things to analyse Because. I think that's the one where John Lennon took a chord sequence from Bach and played it backwards? Either way, it's an amazing song and vocal performance.

guitarjack66

Stuckfast said:

I generally love the Beatles but I can't stand Something. I think it's corny and naff and by far the worst track on Abbey Road, not excepting Maxwell's Silver Hammer. But that might just be me.

Talking of Abbey Road, I would love someone who knows about these things to analyse Because. I think that's the one where John Lennon took a chord sequence from Bach and played it backwards? Either way, it's an amazing song and vocal performance.

I love Something and Maxwell's Silver Hammer. I tend to judge them in different contexts though. Something is an obvious love song or ballad and Maxwell's Silver Hammer is a novelty song and a brilliant one at that,in my humble opinion.

thing

I remember when I was a noob guitarist.. learning to play songs, chords, riffs and licks by ear..

I recall seeing and hearing certain patterns being common and figured out how to use them myself...

at the time I had no idea what they were called.. 

that is until many years later when I found that I'd discovered several scales [maj / min / harm min / min pentatonic / man pentatonic]..

but the killer thing was that I'd also discovered the relationship between them and stumbled upon the fact that they had a centre key..

the essence of the relationship between the major and relative minor..

and also the relationship between scale, chords and key..

but then I was lucky enough to have a small gift with respect to aural perception..

years later when I did all the 'learning' all of these fragments of notions and intuitions all fell into place..

it was like seeing an image suddenly come into sharp focus..

Whoaaaa spooky. You've just put into words my exact musical journey. You have a great gift with words Paul.