Their 1966 record Pet Sounds, for instance, completely revolutionised the album format and led to such seminal records as The ...

You can try this with any chord that is not part of the key you’re playing in. The picking pattern for the song Blackbird is ...

The Beatles could take music in different directions, but George Harrison thought that this tune wasn't completely original.

Using Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles and She's Always a Woman by Billy Joel, we walk through the steps to deciphering the ...

Which Beatles songs have been streamed the most ... music fans have been trying to understand for ages: the opening chord to "A Hard Day's Night." Even today, there are a multitude of ...

John Lennon couldn't stand quite a few songs from The Beatles discography, but these four tracks are kind of surprising.

Get to grips with this invaluable and interesting addition to the songwriter's vocabulary used by Paul McCartney and jazzers ...

“They were doing things nobody was doing,” Dylan once said after picking “I Want to Hold Your Hand” as his favorite Beatles song. “Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and ...

Someone took all of the rock 'n' roll out of The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and it's a musical travesty.

Used liberally in blues, they’re also used for adding jazzy flavour in other genres, including soul and funk, as well as pop music - the first chord of The Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever is a ...

According to Forbes, the Beatles album Abbey Road – the cover of which famously features the group strolling along a zebra ...

You might think it just feels ‘right’ when you hit upon a chord sequence, or melody that works. But why does it work? What makes music operate how it does? Are we saying here that you need a formal ...