The Harmonic Secrets Of...The Beatles!

Join Jon Bishop as he delves into the wonderful world of Beatles harmony with a feature that covers key Beatles-style chord shapes and progressions with great backing tracks too!

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The Beatles, of course, need no introduction. As a band and as solo artists after their dissolution in 1970, this Liverpool foursome’s body of work remains almost beyond comparison. But what marked them out over and above their look, their style, their humour and those cheeky Scouse accents was, of course, their music.

When they first hit the charts in 1962 no one had heard their like before. Their songs were fresh, their vocal harmonies less obvious and more complex than those of their vocal idols The Every Brothers, and their use of chords so different and catchy that the country, and soon the world, couldn’t get enough of them. That they went from She Loves You in 1963 to Sergeant Pepper in just four years is almost incomprehensible. In the history of pop or rock there’s never been a transition so marked or so amazing.