Best Beatles chord progressions

soma1975

Trying to get myself out of a rut playing I-IV-V all the time and thought I would start at the beginning of pop music with great chords.

What are your top 5 Beatles chord progressions? 

Wazmeister

The best book EVER.... just buy this. Over 700 pages of secrets, ideas, etc

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Songwriting-Secrets-Beatles-Dominic-Pedler-ebook/dp/B003NX6KSM/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EK4JL8PFH77E&dchild=1&keywords=songwriting+secrets+of+the+beatles&qid=1589095401&sprefix=The+beatles+songwr%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-2

soma1975

Ooh sounds good will get on it. Ta

Edit: Do I need to be able to read music?

digitalkettle

If you Google it, you can see about 20% of the book: lots of text, notated vocal lines, chord charts (didn’t see many boxes though), and fragments of tab for guitar stuff. Looks interesting.

 Funnily enough, I bought the complete scores anthology years ago and I was planning on getting into that

HAL9000

My top five Beatles chord progressions...

1. Lucy in the sky

2.Something
3. In My Life
4. While my Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Sorry - too many to choose from

digitalkettle

From the top of my head...best progressions (not necessarily favourite songs):

1. The Fool On The Hill
2. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
3. I Am The Walrus
4. Penny Lane
5. Strawberry Fields Forever

Seems like MMT is the album for me...never really thought about that

roberty

You never give me your money

Lestratcaster

Yesterday

soma1975

Thanks chaps will get on it. 

Jimbro66

Here, there and everywhere. Lovely chords.

edit: If you fancy having a go at it as a solo guitar piece have a listen to Richard Smith’s beautiful version.

CMW335

Real Love on acoustic 

Stuckfast

Because

thecolourbox

I'll play also, not in order but a selection of five I like

1. I am the walrus
2. Because
3. Strawberry Fields
4. I want you (she's so heavy)
5. Blackbird

There are loads more though to be fair

munckee

I've spent this afternoon learning lead parts for octopuses garden, turns out the chords I thought it was based on are wrong.  Lovely tune though.

Balrog68

Blackbird. 

MagicPigDetective

Gimme Some Money

CMW335

Also I had an old 54 J160e and was addicted to playing A Day In The Life over and over with it

soma1975

Just bought this Kindle book to get going and get an overview, despite it probably simplifying a bunch of stuff. £7

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beatles-Complete-Chord-Songbook-ebook/dp/B002TOJHCM

fendergibson

Love this thread already - Massive Beatles fan here so.....I love them all ! Also loads of their solo stuff. Wingspan is on general repeat on my headphones.

Someones knocking on the Door.....

Freebird

Funnily enough I was playing around with All You Need Is Love in my DAW, and I was wondering if John Lennon came up with the chords through  trial and error, or whether George Martin refined them in the studio.

ArchtopDave

Wazmeister said:

The best book EVER.... just buy this. Over 700 pages of secrets, ideas, etc

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Songwriting-Secrets-Beatles-Dominic-Pedler-ebook/dp/B003NX6KSM/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3EK4JL8PFH77E&dchild=1&keywords=songwriting+secrets+of+the+beatles&qid=1589095401&sprefix=The+beatles+songwr%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-2

If anyone else is interested in buying this book, Blackwell's have the Hardcover version of the book on offer for £23.77 with free postage. I ordered yesterday, so I'm hoping it should arrive sometime next week.