Glossary
A B C D, look up what you need to see. Every tag in the Beatles catalogue, A–Z. Each entry links to its tag page, where you can browse the songs that share it.
10370 unique terms across 28 sections. Auto-generated chord shapes, chord literals and track numbers are excluded.
A
- A6 songs
- A song built on the section sequence A, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(4)Music: Song form(2)
- a [NOUN] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- A Hard Day's Night (US)8 songs
- United Artists release, June 1964. Unlike the all-Beatles UK version, the US release included orchestral score tracks by George Martin on side two.
- Info: US release
- A-Side single30 songs
- The song was the primary promoted side of a standalone UK or US single release
- Info: Release type
- AA87 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(76)Music: Song form(7)Text: Lyric structure(4)
- AAA43 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AAA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(37)Music: Song form(4)Text: Lyric structure(2)
- AAAA38 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AAAA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(34)Text: Lyric structure(3)Music: Song form(1)
- AAAAA15 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AAAAA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(12)Music: Song form(2)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AAAAAA9 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AAAAAA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(8)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AAAAAAA1 song
- Music: Song form
- AAAAAB5 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAAAB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAAAABB1 song
- Music: Song form
- AAAAABBBBBBBBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAAABBBBBBBBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAAAB2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAAB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAAABA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAABA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAAABBBBBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAABBBBBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAAABBBBBBC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAABBBBBBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAAABCAAAABA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAABCAAAABA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAAABCBBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAABCBBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAAACAA1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AAAACAA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AAAAX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAAX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAAB15 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAAB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAABAAAA1 song
- Music: Song form
- AAABAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AAABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AAABABCDCBCAEFG1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAABABCDCBCAEFG – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAABBA3 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AAABBA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(2)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AAABBBBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAABBBBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAABBC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAABBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAABBCCCC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAABBCCCC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAABC5 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAABC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAABCAA1 song
- Music: Song form
- AAABCDECFF1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAABCDECFF – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAABX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAABX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAABXXX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAABXXX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAACAA1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AAACAA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AAB39 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(38)Music: Song form(1)
- AABA15 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(14)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AABA form64 songs
- The 32-bar AABA song form: two matching A sections, a contrasting B (bridge), then a final A.
- Music: Song form
- AABAA6 songs
- Music: Song form
- AABAAA1 song
- Music: Song form
- AABAAABA1 song
- Music: Song form
- AABAAABAAABA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABAAABAAABA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABAAABABA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABAAABABA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABAAB7 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABAAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(4)Music: Song form(2)Text: Rhyme scheme(1)
- AABAABA16 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABAABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(12)Text: Lyric structure(4)
- AABAABAB2 songs
- Music: Song form
- AABAABB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABAABB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABAABCBAABC1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AABAABCBAABC, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AABAAC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABAAC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABAB17 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(10)Text: Lyric structure(7)
- AABABA56 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(29)Music: Song form(26)Text: Rhyme scheme(1)
- AABABAA1 song
- Music: Song form
- AABABAAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AABABAAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AABABAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AABABABA2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABABABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AABABAC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABABAC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABABB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABABB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AABABBA1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AABABBA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AABABBAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABABBAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AABABC2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABABC, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AABABCAB3 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABABCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(2)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AABAC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABAC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABACAB1 song
- Music: Song form
- AABACBA2 songs
- Music: Song form
- AABACCAAAACC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABACCAAAACC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABB35 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(33)Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AABBA10 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABBA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(4)Text: Lyric structure(4)Text: Rhyme scheme(2)
- AABBAAB1 song
- Music: Song form
- AABBAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AABBAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AABBB4 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABBBAAB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBBAAB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABBBAABAABCAAB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBBAABAABCAAB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABBBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABBBC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABBC5 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABBCB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBCB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABBCDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBCDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABBCDEB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBCDEB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABBCDED1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABBCDED – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABC18 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCA1 song
- Music: Song form
- AABCADEA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCADEA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCB2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCBAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AABCBAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- AABCBX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCBX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCC3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCB3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCBBBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCBBBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCBD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCBD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCBDDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCBDDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCBDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCBDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCBDEF1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCBDEF – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCCCD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCCCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCD3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCCDX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCCDX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCD5 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCDAAAABC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCDAAAABC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCDBEFG1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCDBEFG – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCDC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCDC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABCXX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABCXX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AABX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AABX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAC1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AAC, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AACA8 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AACA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AACAA5 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AACAA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AACAAAA1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AACAAAA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AACABCA2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AACABCA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- AACBABCB3 songs
- A song built on the section sequence AACBABCB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(2)Music: Song form(1)
- AACBCA1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AACBCA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- Aashish Khan2 songs
- Indian classical sarod player, son of Ali Akbar Khan.
- People: Sarod(1)People: Session musician(1)
- AAX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AAXBXA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AAXBXA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AB38 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(37)Music: Song form(1)
- ABA14 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(13)Music: Song form(1)
- ABAA2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABAA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABAAA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABAAA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABAAAC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABAAAC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABAAACC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABAAACC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABAAB1 song
- Music: Song form
- ABAABA3 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABAABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(2)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABAAC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABAAC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABAB55 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(48)Text: Lyric structure(6)Music: Song form(1)
- ABABA11 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(5)Text: Lyric structure(5)Text: Rhyme scheme(1)
- ABABAA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABAA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABAB36 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(20)Music: Song form(16)
- ABABABA4 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(2)Text: Lyric structure(1)Text: Rhyme scheme(1)
- ABABABAB9 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(4)Text: Lyric structure(4)Text: Rhyme scheme(1)
- ABABABABAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABABABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABABABABC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABABABC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABABB3 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABABB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(2)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABABABBB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence ABABABBB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- ABABABBCB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence ABABABBCB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- ABABABC1 song
- Music: Song form
- ABABABCAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABABCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABABABCABAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABABCABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABABABCABABDBEABAFABAA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABABCABABDBEABAFABAA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABAC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABAC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABACD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABACD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABB6 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(3)Music: Song form(2)Text: Rhyme scheme(1)
- ABABBAB6 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABBAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(3)Music: Song form(2)Text: Rhyme scheme(1)
- ABABBABB3 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABBABB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- ABABBABBAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence ABABBABBAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- ABABBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABBBABBB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABBBABBB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABABC5 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(4)Music: Song form(1)
- ABABCA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCAB10 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(5)Text: Lyric structure(5)
- ABABCABABCAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCABABCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- ABABCABB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCABB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABABCABBCAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCABBCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- ABABCABC5 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCABC, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(3)Music: Song form(2)
- ABABCABCAB13 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCABCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(8)Music: Song form(5)
- ABABCABCABA2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCABCABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(1)Music: Song form(1)
- ABABCB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCBAB4 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCBAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(2)Text: Lyric structure(2)
- ABABCBABB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCBABB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABABCC3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCCA2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCCA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCCAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABABCCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(1)Text: Rhyme scheme(1)
- ABABCCAD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCCAD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCCC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCCC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCCDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCCDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCD2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCDCD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCDCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCDD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCDD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABABCDED2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABABCDED – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABAC10 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABAC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACAB4 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABACAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(2)Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABACABCAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABACABCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(1)Music: Song form(1)
- ABACB2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACC2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACCD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACCDEFGH1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACCDEFGH – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACDCDC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACDCDC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACDD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACDD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACDDAB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACDDAB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACDDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACDDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACDE3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACDEF1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACDEF – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABACDEFE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABACDEFE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABB11 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBA5 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(4)Music: Song form(1)
- ABBABB1 song
- Music: Song form
- ABBABBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBABBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBAC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBAC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBACC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBACC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBB8 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBBA1 song
- A song built on the section sequence ABBBA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- ABBBACC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBBACC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBBBCC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBBBCC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBBCD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBBCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBC12 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBCBCB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence ABBCBCB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- ABBCD4 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBCDCCC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBCDCCC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBCDD3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBCDD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBCDE3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBCDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBCDEEE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBCDEEE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABBCXD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABBCXD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- Abbey Road Studios1 song
- EMI's studios at 3 Abbey Road, London, where most Beatles records were made.
- Studio: Recording location
- ABC24 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCA12 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABCA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(10)Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABCABC4 songs
- A song built on the section sequence ABCABC, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Rhyme scheme(2)Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- ABCABCDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCABCDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCADA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCADA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCADEF1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCADEF – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCADEFG1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCADEFG – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCAX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCAX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCB43 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBB2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBBBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBBBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBCB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBCB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBCBBBDCDCBBEBXCBCBBBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBCBBBDCDCBBEBXCBCBBBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBCD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBD3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDB3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDBCB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDBCB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDBEB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDBEB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDD4 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDDB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDDB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDDE2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDE2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDEAFGHEICIJJ1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDEAFGHEICIJJ – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDECE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDECE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDEE2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDEE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDEF2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDEF – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDEFE2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDEFE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCBDEFG1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCBDEFG – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCC14 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCAAA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCAAA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCADBBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCADBBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCB5 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCBD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCBD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCCD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCD3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCDD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCDD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCDDCE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCDDCE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCDDEB2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCDDEB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCCDEDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCCDEDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCD29 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDA3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDAA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDAA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDAEEB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDAEEB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDBC2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDC3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDCA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDCA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDCEE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDCEE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDDBCEED1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDDBCEED – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDDC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDDC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDDCE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDDCE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDDD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDDD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDDE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDDEE1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDDEE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDDEX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDDEX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDE7 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDEBFGHHH1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDEBFGHHH – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDECABCDEC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDECABCDEC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDED2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDED – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDEE2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDEE – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDEEA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDEEA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDEEF1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDEEF – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDEF1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDEF – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDEFED1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDEFED – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDEFGD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDEFGD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDEFGG1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDEFGG – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCDEFGHIJ1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCDEFGHIJ – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABCXX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABCXX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABXB3 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABXB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABXBC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABXBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABXBCC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABXBCC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABXBCD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABXBCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABXCDEFD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABXCDEFD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABXCDEFGFDHIJKLL1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABXCDEFGFDHIJKLL – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- ABXX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern ABXX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AC1 song
- A song built on the section sequence AC, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- ACACBACB1 song
- Music: Song form
- ACBA1 song
- A song built on the section sequence ACBA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- Acid rock2 songs
- Heavy, distorted psychedelic rock with extended improvisations and overt drug imagery.
- Music: Music genre
- Acoustic guitar91 songs
- Hollow-bodied guitar amplified naturally rather than electrically.
- Music: Arrangement
- add41 song
- Major or minor triad with added perfect 4th. Unlike sus4, the 3rd is retained.
- Music: Chord type
- Additional musicians103 songs
- Session musicians beyond the core Beatles lineup contributed instruments to the recording
- People: Unique personnel
- ADT28 songs
- Automatic Double Tracking – tape delay technique creating a doubled vocal without re-recording
- Studio: Studio technique
- AI vocal extraction1 song
- Use of machine-learning source separation to isolate a vocal from a mixed recording.
- Studio: Studio technique
- ain't gonna [VERB] it with [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- Alan Branscombe2 songs
- British jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist active on the London session scene in the 1960s.
- People: Tenor saxophone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Alan Civil4 songs
- Virtuoso English horn player, principal horn with leading London orchestras.
- People: Session musician(2)People: French horn(2)
- Alan Dalziel4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Cello(2)
- Alan Holmes2 songs
- British saxophonist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Saxophone(1)
- Alan Loveday2 songs
- British violinist (1928-2016); leader of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields from 1969 to 1981.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Alan Parsons18 songs
- British engineer and producer who went on to lead the Alan Parsons Project.
- People: Assistant engineer
- Alex Nifosi2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Cello(1)
- Alf Bicknell3 songs
- The Beatles chauffeur from 1964 to 1966; part of the inner road circle during the touring years.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Beatles team(1)People: Sound effects(1)
- Alfie Reece2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Tuba(1)
- Alfred Waters2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Bassoon(1)
- Alistair Taylor3 songs
- Brian Epsteins personal assistant and the Beatles general manager throughout the 1960s.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Spoken word(1)People: Beatles team(1)
- All diatonic roots8 songs
- Every chord root is drawn from the prevailing diatonic scale.
- Music: Composition
- all i can tell you is brother you2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- All major chords54 songs
- Song uses only major-quality chords (no minor, diminished, or augmented)
- Music: Composition
- All natural roots15 songs
- Every chord root in the song is a natural (non-altered) scale degree.
- Music: Composition
- Allan Grant2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Allen Ford2 songs
- British cellist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Cello(1)
- Alliteration12 songs
- Repeated consonant sounds at the start of nearby words for rhythmic effect
- Text: Lyrical device
- Americanism11 songs
- American place names, slang, or cultural references – often consciously affected.
- Text: Motif
- Amiya Dasgupta2 songs
- Indian musician and teacher of London's Asian Music Circle.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Tabla(1)
- Ampex AG-440 4-track recorder2 songs
- Ampex professional multitrack tape recorder used at some outside studios.
- Studio: Equipment
- Amrit Gajjar2 songs
- Indian musician active in Londons Asian Music Circle in the 1960s.
- People: Dilruba(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Andrew Bulbrook2 songs
- American violinist, member of Calder Quartet.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Andrew McGee2 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Andy White6 songs
- Scottish session drummer active on the London recording scene in the early 1960s.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Drums(2)People: Bongos(1)People: Percussion(1)
- Anil Bhagwat2 songs
- Indian tabla player who accompanied George Harrison on the Beatles' first fully Indian-instrumented recording.
- People: Tabla(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Animals31 songs
- Animals appear as characters, symbols, or central metaphors within the lyrics
- Text: Motif
- Anna Joshi2 songs
- Indian musician active in Londons Asian Music Circle in the 1960s.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Dilruba(1)
- Antithesis7 songs
- Contrasting ideas set in parallel for effect (e.g. 'love is old, love is new').
- Text: Lyrical device
- Apple73 songs
- The Beatles' own label (Apple Records), launched August 1968. Used for UK releases from Hey Jude onward and for the Let It Be era; all Apple UK releases were still distributed thr…
- Info: Label
- Apple US74 songs
- Apple's US arm, distributed by Capitol. Marks an ORIGINAL US Apple issue between 1968 and 1970: the albums, the singles, and the 1970 Hey Jude compilation that put earlier songs o…
- Info: Label
- Appoggiatura41 songs
- A dissonant non-chord tone on a strong beat that resolves by step to a chord tone.
- Music: Melody
- Arc Music Corp.2 songs
- Chess Records' publishing arm, controlling blues and R&B catalogue.
- Info: Publisher
- Arpeggiated chords3 songs
- Chord notes played individually in sequence rather than simultaneously strummed
- Music: Guitar work
- Art Ellefson2 songs
- Tenor saxophonist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Tenor saxophone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Art rock6 songs
- Rock incorporating experimental composition, classical elements, or conceptual ambition.
- Music: Music genre
- Arthur Alexander1 song
- Born May 10, 1940 · Florence, Alabama. A pioneering soul-country singer-songwriter whose understated vocal style influenced a generation of British groups. The Beatles covered hi…
- People: Songwriter
- Autobiography23 songs
- The lyric draws on the songwriter's own life events or relationships.
- Text: Motif
- Avant-garde9 songs
- Experimental and non-conventional in structure, sound design, or conceptual intent – pushing beyond pop norms
- Music: Music genre
- Avant-garde influence8 songs
- Experimental art-music ideas – tape music, chance, sound collage.
- Music: Influence
- AX2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXAAABXBC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXAAABXBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXAAAXBXC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXAAAXBXC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXAB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXAB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXBAXB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXBAXB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXBAXBC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXBAXBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXBB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXBB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXBCD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXBCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXBCDEFX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXBCDEFX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXBXCDBEF1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXBXCDBEF – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- AXX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern AXX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
B
- B-Side single20 songs
- The song appeared on the flip side of a single, typically supporting an A-side hit
- Info: Release type
- BAAB1 song
- Music: Song form
- BAABA2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BAABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- BAABABA2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BAABABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- BAABCABC1 song
- Music: Song form
- BAACABAA1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BAACABAA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BABAAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BABAAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BABAB4 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(2)Text: Lyric structure(2)
- BABABAB10 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(5)Text: Lyric structure(5)
- BABABABAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABABABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- BABABABB1 song
- Music: Song form
- BABABAC2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABABAC, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- BABABB3 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABABB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BABABCAB3 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABABCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure(2)Music: Song form(1)
- BABABCABCAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABABCABCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- BABABCB3 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABABCB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(2)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- BABABCCBCAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABABCCBCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- BABACBCBAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BABACBCBAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BABBABBABABABAAABA1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BABBABBABABABAAABA, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BABCABCAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABCABCAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- BABCBAB2 songs
- A song built on the section sequence BABCBAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Music: Song form(1)Text: Lyric structure(1)
- Ballad39 songs
- A slow, melodically expressive song typically focused on emotional or romantic themes
- Music: Music genre
- Banjo1 song
- Stringed instrument with a drum-like skin head – bright, percussive tone.
- Music: Arrangement
- Banjolele1 song
- A banjo-ukulele hybrid: a ukulele neck on a small banjo body, giving a banjo's bright twang at ukulele pitch.
- Music: Arrangement
- Baroque influence6 songs
- Baroque-era European art-music – Bach-style counterpoint, harpsichord, ornamentation.
- Music: Influence
- Baroque pop14 songs
- Pop music incorporating harpsichord, strings, and other Baroque-classical textures.
- Music: Music genre
- Barrie Cameron2 songs
- British saxophonist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Saxophone(1)
- Barry Sheffield6 songs
- Recording engineer and co-founder of Trident Studios.
- People: Recording engineer
- Bartell fretless guitar2 songs
- Fretless electric guitar built by Paul Barth – used by George Harrison on Indian-flavoured tracks.
- Studio: Equipment
- Basil Tschaikov2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Clarinet(1)
- Bass clarinet2 songs
- The low, dark, reedy tone of the bass clarinet – rarely used but distinctive when it appears
- Music: Arrangement
- Bass ignores harmony6 songs
- The bass plays independently of the prevailing chord, creating deliberate harmonic tension
- Music: Bass work
- Bass intro1 song
- The record opens on bass alone, before any other instrument or voice enters.
- Music: Bass work
- BBABABAB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BBABABAB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BBB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BBB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BBBBBBBB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BBBBBBBB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BCB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BCB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BCBBB1 song
- A song built on the section sequence BCBBB, with each letter standing for a distinct section.
- Text: Lyric structure
- BCBCB1 song
- Music: Song form
- BCCB1 song
- Music: Song form
- Beatles '6511 songs
- Capitol release, December 1964. Mix of Beatles For Sale tracks with recent singles including 'I Feel Fine'.
- Info: US release
- Beatles team21 songs
- A track where members of the Beatles' inner circle (assistants, partners, family) appear in recording roles.
- People: Unique personnel
- Beatles VI11 songs
- Capitol compilation released June 1965. Remaining Beatles For Sale tracks plus early Help! tracks and singles.
- Info: US release
- Belted vocals18 songs
- McCartney sings in his full-power upper-chest register – raw, intense, and physically demanding
- Music: Vocal work
- Ben Foster1 song
- Liverpool-born British composer, orchestrator and conductor, best known for scoring Torchwood and orchestrating Murray Gold's music for Doctor Who.
- People: Orchestral scoring
- Bernard Davis2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Viola(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Bernard George2 songs
- Baritone saxophonist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Baritone saxophone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Bernard Miller2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Berry Gordy1 song
- Born November 28, 1929 · Detroit. Founder of Motown Records and one of the most influential figures in 20th-century popular music. As a songwriter he co-wrote "Money (That's What…
- People: Songwriter
- Bert Courtley3 songs
- British trumpeter active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Flugelhorn(1)People: Trumpet(1)
- Bert Russell1 song
- Born November 8, 1929 · The Bronx, New York. Stage name of Bert Berns, a brilliant songwriter and producer who fused R&B with Latin rhythms. Co-wrote "Twist and Shout" (Beatles v…
- People: Songwriter
- Bill Black double bass1 song
- The upright bass Bill Black played on Elvis Presley's 'Heartbreak Hotel'. Linda McCartney bought it for Paul in the late 1970s, and he played it on the 1995 reunion single.
- Studio: Equipment
- Bill Jackman2 songs
- Baritone saxophonist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Baritone saxophone(1)
- Bill Monro2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Bill Povey4 songs
- Tenor saxophonist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Trombone(1)People: Tenor saxophone(1)
- Billy Preston22 songs
- American keyboardist and solo star ('Will It Go Round in Circles', 'Nothing from Nothing') who also played with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and the Rolling Stones.
- People: Guest musician(10)People: Electric piano(6)People: Organ(6)
- Blue Book Music1 song
- Bakersfield-country publisher associated with Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.
- Info: Publisher
- Blue note18 songs
- A flattened third, fifth or seventh sounded against a major harmony, giving a bluesy colour to a song that is not a blues.
- Music: Melody
- Bluegrass1 song
- Up-tempo Appalachian string-band music with banjo, mandolin and close harmony.
- Music: Music genre
- Blues22 songs
- Rooted in the 12-bar blues tradition with blues-scale phrasing and call-and-response vocabulary
- Music: Music genre(18)Text: Recurring words(4)
- Blues influence32 songs
- The lyric uses blues idiom: first-person complaint, repeated opening lines, plain declarations of trouble.
- Music: Influence(30)Text: Influence(2)
- Blues rock15 songs
- 12-bar blues forms played with rock-band intensity and electric guitars.
- Music: Music genre
- Bob Dylan influence20 songs
- Dylan's lyric ambition and folk-singer-songwriter craft as a model.
- Text: Influence
- Bobby Parker influence2 songs
- Guitarist-singer whose 'Watch Your Step' riff shaped several Beatles guitar figures.
- Music: Influence
- Bobby Scott1 song
- Born January 29, 1937 · Mount Pleasant, New York. Jazz pianist, singer, and composer best known for "A Taste of Honey", written with Ric Marlow for a 1960 Broadway play. The Beat…
- People: Songwriter
- Body percussion4 songs
- Percussive sound made with the body (claps, snaps, stomps); the specific action is in the note.
- Music: Arrangement
- Boogie-woogie2 songs
- Up-tempo blues piano style driven by a rolling left-hand ostinato bass.
- Music: Music genre
- Boogie-woogie influence2 songs
- Up-tempo blues piano style built on a rolling left-hand ostinato bass.
- Music: Influence
- Borrowed chord164 songs
- A chord imported from the parallel major or minor key for unexpected color
- Music: Harmony
- Bram Martin2 songs
- British cellist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Cello(1)
- Brass26 songs
- Beatles songs with a brass arrangement – trumpets, trombones, French horn, tuba and the like.
- Music: Instrument group
- Brass solo1 song
- An instrumental passage featuring a brass instrument as the lead voice.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Brian Holland1 song
- Born February 15, 1941 · Detroit. Co-founder of the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team that defined Motown's golden era. Co-wrote "Please Mr. Postman", the Marvelettes hit c…
- People: Songwriter
- Brian Jones6 songs
- Founding member and multi-instrumentalist of the Rolling Stones.
- People: Guest musician(2)People: Backing vocals(1)People: Sound effects(1)People: Alto saxophone(1)People: Ocarina(1)
- Brill Building3 songs
- Original written by a New York Brill Building songwriting team.
- Info: Cover origin
- Brushes10 songs
- Drumming with wire brushes instead of sticks for a softer, sweeping sound.
- Music: Drum work
- Buddhadev Kansara2 songs
- Indian musician active in Londons Asian Music Circle in the 1960s.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Tamboura(1)
- Buddy Holly1 song
- Born September 7, 1936 · Lubbock, Texas. The most direct songwriting influence on the early Beatles – Lennon and McCartney studied his records obsessively, and the band name itse…
- People: Songwriter
- Buddy Holly influence14 songs
- Holly's simple, direct love-song lyricism and earnest emotional delivery
- Text: Influence
- Burns Nu-Sonic3 songs
- A short-scale bass built by the British maker Burns of London in the mid-1960s.
- Studio: Equipment
- Burt Bacharach1 song
- Born May 12, 1928 · Kansas City, Missouri. One of the great American popular composers, whose sophisticated melodies and unusual time signatures redefined 1960s pop. Co-wrote "Ba…
- People: Songwriter
- but if you want money for people with2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- but when you [VERB] [WORD] [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- but when you talk about destruction2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- Byrds influence1 song
- Jangly 12-string Rickenbacker guitars and folk-rock vocal harmony.
- Music: Influence
C
- Call and response52 songs
- Lyrical pattern where a line is answered by a contrasting line – often between lead and backing vocals
- Music: Melody
- Camillo Felgen2 songs
- Luxembourgish lyricist (writing as Jean Nicolas) who translated the Beatles' 1964 German-language singles.
- People: Songwriter
- can tell you is brother you have to2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- Capitol133 songs
- EMI's US subsidiary. Handled nearly all Beatles US releases from Meet The Beatles! (Jan 1964) onward. Repackaged many UK albums into different US tracklists (see US Release tag).
- Info: Label
- Capo9 songs
- Guitar played with a capo, transposing the open strings to a higher pitch
- Music: Guitar work
- Carl Perkins3 songs
- Born April 9, 1932 · Tiptonville, Tennessee. A founding figure of rockabilly and a personal hero of George Harrison. The Beatles covered three of his songs – "Honey Don't" and "E…
- People: Songwriter
- Carlos Villa2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Carole King1 song
- Born February 9, 1942 · Brooklyn, New York. A leading Brill Building songwriter who later became a defining solo artist of the 1970s. With Gerry Goffin she wrote dozens of hits f…
- People: Songwriter
- Casual language161 songs
- Lyric draws heavily on colloquial English, slang, or conversational fillers.
- Text: Vocabulary
- Cello24 songs
- Bowed cello providing deep, warm string resonance beneath the arrangement
- Music: Arrangement
- Challen blond-wood spinet1 song
- A small blond-wood Challen upright piano, distinct from the tack-treated Challen used elsewhere at Abbey Road.
- Studio: Equipment
- Challen tack piano12 songs
- Upright piano with tacks set in the hammers for a tinny honky-tonk sound.
- Studio: Equipment
- Chappell Recording Studios1 song
- Independent London studio with the era's only eight-track machine in mid-1968.
- Studio: Recording location
- Character song14 songs
- Songs built around a vivid fictional character or cast of characters.
- Info: Song family
- Charlie Bisharat2 songs
- American session violinist and recording artist active in film and pop.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Childhood66 songs
- Themes of childhood memory, lost innocence, growing up, or looking back at youth
- Text: Motif
- Children's song4 songs
- Written or performed in the style of a children's song – simple melody, playful imagery, nursery rhyme feel
- Music: Music genre
- Choir5 songs
- A vocal choir or chorus supplementing the Beatles' own voices for grandeur or contrast
- Music: Arrangement
- Chris O'Dell2 songs
- American who worked at Apple Records in the late 1960s and went on to tour-manage for Dylan and the Rolling Stones.
- People: Beatles team(1)People: Handclaps(1)
- Chris Thomas27 songs
- British producer whose later credits include Roxy Music, the Sex Pistols, and INXS.
- People: Producer(19)People: Tape loops(1)People: Orchestral scoring(1)People: Harpsichord(1)People: Electric piano(1)People: Mellotron(1)People: Organ(1)People: Piano(1)People: Recorder(1)
- Christopher Taylor2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Flute(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Chuck Berry2 songs
- Born October 18, 1926 · St. Louis. The single most important influence on rock and roll songwriting and guitar playing. The Beatles covered "Roll Over Beethoven" on With The Beat…
- People: Songwriter
- Chuck Berry influence9 songs
- Berry's conversational storytelling style, teenage slang, and first-person rock and roll narrative voice
- Text: Influence
- Circle of fifths101 songs
- Chord progression moves through successive perfect fifths relationships
- Music: Harmony
- Clarinet8 songs
- Clarinet bringing warm woodwind color – associated with the music hall style of McCartney's arrangements
- Music: Arrangement
- Classic formation113 songs
- All four Beatles play their primary instruments – Lennon and Harrison on guitars, McCartney on bass, Starr on drums.
- People: Unique personnel
- Classical guitar7 songs
- Nylon-stringed acoustic guitar of the Spanish/classical tradition.
- Music: Arrangement
- Classical music influence22 songs
- European concert-music conventions, orchestration, or form.
- Music: Influence
- Clavioline1 song
- An early valve-driven monophonic electronic keyboard with a buzzy, reedy timbre, a forerunner of the synthesizer.
- Music: Arrangement
- Clifford Seville2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Flute(1)
- Close mic'ing42 songs
- Placing a microphone within inches of a sound source for intimate, detailed capture.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Clothes24 songs
- Clothing, fashion, or wardrobe details as significant imagery.
- Text: Motif(18)Text: Recurring words(6)
- Common meter4 songs
- Common meter (most-used English hymn meter; ballad meter when combined with ABCB rhyme scheme).
- Text: Line length
- Communication110 songs
- Letters, calls, conversations – the act of reaching across distance.
- Text: Motif
- Confessional34 songs
- Intimate personal disclosure – private feelings exposed directly to the listener
- Text: Narrative
- Consecutive line122 songs
- Text: Repetition
- Consecutive verses107 songs
- Text: Repetition
- Consecutive word72 songs
- Text: Repetition
- Contrabass clarinet2 songs
- Lowest-pitched clarinet, an octave below the bass clarinet.
- Music: Arrangement
- Contrabassoon1 song
- Low-pitched double-reed woodwind sounding an octave below the bassoon.
- Music: Arrangement
- Cor anglais1 song
- Tenor double-reed woodwind, sounding a fifth lower than the oboe.
- Music: Arrangement
- Countermelody7 songs
- A secondary INSTRUMENTAL melodic line running against the main (usually vocal) melody. For voices in counterpoint, use vocal-element/Counterpoint.
- Music: Melody
- Counterpoint12 songs
- Two or more independent VOCAL lines sung at once (vocal polyphony); includes vocal countermelodies. For an instrumental secondary line, use musical-element/Countermelody.
- Music: Vocal work
- Counting15 songs
- Numerical sequences, counting, or numbers used as structural or thematic elements
- Text: Motif
- Country16 songs
- American rural music built on twang, pedal steel, and storytelling.
- Music: Music genre(13)Info: Cover origin(3)
- Country influence11 songs
- The arrangement borrows from country music: twang, pedal-steel bends, a shuffle or two-step feel.
- Music: Influence(8)Text: Influence(3)
- Country rock8 songs
- Country song forms and instrumentation merged with rock energy.
- Music: Music genre
- Cover25 songs
- A recording of a song written by someone outside the Beatles, often an American R&B or rock and roll original
- Info: Song type
- Cyril MacArthur2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Double bass(1)People: Session musician(1)
D
- D Griffiths2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- D. Bradley2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Danny Moss2 songs
- Tenor saxophonist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Tenor saxophone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Dark lyrics19 songs
- Lyrical content dealing with violence, despair, alienation, or mortality
- Text: Vocabulary
- Dave Harries1 song
- EMI recording engineer and technical engineer at Abbey Road.
- People: Recording engineer
- David Glyde2 songs
- British saxophonist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Saxophone(1)
- David Mason10 songs
- English classical trumpeter, principal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a leading interpreter of the baroque trumpet repertoire.
- People: Session musician(5)People: Trumpet(3)People: Piccolo trumpet(2)
- David McCallum2 songs
- Scottish violinist and orchestral leader; father of the actor of the same name.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- David Sandeman2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Flute(1)
- David Smith2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Clarinet(1)
- David Wolfsthal2 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- De Lane Lea Studios1 song
- Independent London studio used for 'It's All Too Much' in 1967.
- Studio: Recording location
- Death22 songs
- The song engages directly or metaphorically with mortality, dying, loss, or the afterlife
- Text: Motif
- Defining riff44 songs
- A short repeated figure so identifiable that it is inseparable from the song's identity.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Del Shannon influence2 songs
- Early-1960s pop-rock singer known for dramatic minor-key melodies.
- Music: Influence
- Delbert McClinton influence2 songs
- American blues harmonica player who coached Lennon's harp style on 'Love Me Do'.
- Music: Influence
- Dennis McConnell2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Dennis Vigay4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Cello(2)
- Dennis Walton4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Flute(1)People: Saxophone(1)
- Dense lyrics10 songs
- High word count with packed imagery – every line carries meaning
- Text: Vocabulary
- Derek Collins2 songs
- Tenor saxophonist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Tenor saxophone(1)
- Derek Jacobs2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Derek Simpson4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Cello(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Derek Watkins4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trumpet(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Dialogue33 songs
- The song is structured as or includes a direct scripted conversation between characters
- Text: Motif
- Dick Morgan3 songs
- Cor anglais player credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Oboe(1)People: Cor anglais(1)
- Direct injection5 songs
- Recording an electric instrument's signal straight into the console, bypassing an amp.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Distinct mix34 songs
- The mono and stereo releases differ in a way a listener would notice – different length, alternate take/overdub, notable effects or balance differences. NOT for trivial fold-downs…
- Info: Release mix
- Distortion16 songs
- Deliberately overdriven signal for a gritty, saturated tone – covers distortion, overdrive, and fuzz.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Don Honeywill2 songs
- Tenor saxophonist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Tenor saxophone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Don Lang2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trombone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- don't you [VERB] it's gonna be2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- don't you know that you can count me2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- Donald Weekes2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Donovan influence4 songs
- Folk songwriter Donovan's gentle acoustic, Travis-picking style.
- Text: Influence
- Doo-wop7 songs
- Late-1950s vocal-group style featuring close harmonies over a four-chord progression.
- Music: Music genre
- Double A-Side8 songs
- Both sides of the single were given equal promotion – neither was a 'B-side'
- Info: Release type
- Double bass14 songs
- Large bowed orchestral string instrument, lowest in the section.
- Music: Arrangement
- Double meaning20 songs
- A line carries a second reading the surface sense conceals.
- Text: Lyrical device
- Double tracked vocal139 songs
- A vocal overdubbed in sync with itself to create a thicker, reinforced sound
- Studio: Studio technique
- Dreams18 songs
- Sleep, dreaming, or the blurred boundary between reality and fantasy inform the lyric
- Text: Motif(12)Text: Recurring words(6)
- Drew Forde2 songs
- American session violist and music educator.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Viola(1)
- Drone30 songs
- A sustained note or chord held beneath shifting harmonies – common in Indian-influenced and psychedelic tracks
- Music: Harmony
- Drop D tuning3 songs
- Guitar's low E string tuned down a whole step to D for a heavier, fuller sound
- Music: Guitar work
- Drugs influence18 songs
- Lyrics written under or about psychedelic drug experiences – altered perception, expanded consciousness, hallucinatory imagery
- Text: Influence
- Drum intro6 songs
- The record opens on drums alone, before any other instrument or voice enters.
- Music: Drum work
- Duchess Music Corp.1 song
- American publisher associated with mid-century pop catalogue.
- Info: Publisher
- Duncan Campbell3 songs
- British trumpeter active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trumpet(1)People: Flugelhorn(1)
E
- Early song8 songs
- Written or originally performed before the Beatles' official recording debut era
- Info: Song family
- Eastern philosophy influence13 songs
- Indian philosophy, Buddhism, Taoism, or other Eastern spiritual traditions shaping the lyrical worldview
- Text: Influence
- Echo chamber3 songs
- Physical or electromechanical chamber used to add reverberation to a recording.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Eddie Kramer4 songs
- South-African-born recording engineer best known for his work with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin.
- People: Recording engineer(2)People: Session musician(1)People: Vibraphone(1)
- Eddie Thornton2 songs
- Jamaican-born trumpeter and member of Georgie Fame's Blue Flames, active on the 1960s British R&B and session scene.
- People: Trumpet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Eldon Fox6 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Cello(3)People: Session musician(3)
- Electric guitar174 songs
- Solid-body or semi-hollow guitar amplified through a pickup.
- Music: Arrangement
- Electric piano19 songs
- A Fender Rhodes or Wurlitzer electric piano rather than acoustic – intimate, slightly gritty
- Music: Arrangement
- Electric piano solo3 songs
- An instrumental passage with electric piano as the lead voice.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Elgar Howarth2 songs
- English trumpeter, composer and conductor.
- People: Trumpet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Elvis Presley influence3 songs
- The founding rock-and-roll star's rockabilly drive and vocal style.
- Music: Influence
- EMI BTR2 twin-track recorder33 songs
- EMI's valve British Tape Recorder, the two-track machine used at Abbey Road in the early 1960s.
- Studio: Equipment
- EMI BTR3 twin-track recorder5 songs
- A later EMI valve British Tape Recorder used at Abbey Road.
- Studio: Equipment
- EMI REDD.37 console42 songs
- EMI's REDD.37 valve mixing console, in Abbey Road's studios until 1964.
- Studio: Equipment
- EMI REDD.51 console152 songs
- Late-1950s valve mixing console used at EMI Abbey Road through 1968.
- Studio: Equipment
- EMI Studio 115 songs
- The largest of the three rooms at EMI's Abbey Road complex.
- Studio: Recording location
- EMI Studio 2181 songs
- The Beatles' primary recording room at EMI Abbey Road.
- Studio: Recording location
- EMI Studios200 songs
- EMI's flagship recording complex on Abbey Road in north London.
- Studio: Recording location
- EMI TG12345 console19 songs
- EMI's first solid-state mixing console, installed at Abbey Road in 1968.
- Studio: Equipment
- Engineer plays4 songs
- A track on which a credited recording engineer also performed – exceeding their technical role.
- People: Unique personnel
- Enotris Johnson1 song
- American R&B songwriter active in the 1950s. Co-credited with Little Richard and Robert Blackwell on "Long Tall Sally" – covered by the Beatles on the 1964 EP and a constant feat…
- People: Songwriter
- Epiphone Casino ES-230TD55 songs
- The semi-hollow Epiphone Casino electric guitar played by all three guitarists in the later period
- Studio: Equipment
- Epiphone Texan FT-794 songs
- McCartney's Epiphone Texan FT-79 flat-top acoustic guitar, used on Yesterday and other recordings.
- Studio: Equipment
- Eric Bowie6 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Violin(3)People: Session musician(3)
- Eric Clapton6 songs
- British rock and blues guitarist and a founder of the Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, and Derek and the Dominos; one of the most influential players of his generation.
- People: Guest musician(2)People: Electric guitar(1)People: Backing vocals(1)People: Guitar(1)People: Lead guitar(1)
- Erich Gruenberg6 songs
- Distinguished Austrian-British violinist and orchestral leader.
- People: Session musician(3)People: Violin(3)
- Ernest Scott2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Evan Watkins2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trombone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Extended metaphor19 songs
- A sustained metaphor carried across multiple lines or the entire song
- Text: Lyrical device
- External location31 songs
- Recorded at a location other than a conventional studio.
- Studio: Recording location
- Extrametrical rhyme110 songs
- Rhyme between line-end and a word outside the line's basic meter.
- Text: Rhyme type
- Eye rhyme4 songs
- Words that look like they should rhyme but don't sound alike (love/move).
- Text: Rhyme type
F
- F Dachtler2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Fade-in4 songs
- Production technique that introduces a track from silence by gradually raising its level.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Fade-out46 songs
- Production technique that closes a track by gradually reducing its level to silence.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Falsetto8 songs
- A vocalist sings in the light, breathy upper register above their natural chest-voice range
- Music: Vocal work
- Fast41 songs
- Fast Beatles songs, driving along at 130 to 159 beats per minute.
- Music: Tempo(37)Text: Recurring words(4)
- Feedback3 songs
- Controlled use of guitar or amp feedback as a deliberate musical element.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Feminine rhyme53 songs
- Rhyme on two or more syllables ending in an unstressed syllable (running/sunning).
- Text: Rhyme type
- Fender Bass VI7 songs
- A six-string bass guitar providing a broader harmonic and melodic range than a standard four-string
- Studio: Equipment
- Fender Bassman2 songs
- American 50-watt valve bass amplifier, used by the Beatles for both bass and guitar.
- Studio: Equipment
- Fender Esquire6 songs
- Single-pickup version of the Fender Telecaster electric guitar.
- Studio: Equipment
- Fender Jazz Bass10 songs
- The Fender Jazz Bass: a slim-necked electric bass with two single-coil pickups and a bright, punchy tone.
- Studio: Equipment
- Fender Rosewood Telecaster19 songs
- Solid rosewood-bodied electric guitar – Harrison's main guitar through 1969.
- Studio: Equipment
- Fender Twin Reverb2 songs
- American 85-watt valve guitar amplifier with built-in spring reverb.
- Studio: Equipment
- Fingerpicking13 songs
- Guitar played with individual fingers plucking strings rather than a pick
- Music: Guitar work
- Flanging/phasing3 songs
- Phase-shift effect produced by mixing a signal with a slightly delayed copy of itself.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Florence Greenberg / Scepter Records1 song
- Independent New York label that owned several Brill Building songs the Beatles covered.
- Info: Publisher
- Flute solo2 songs
- A prominent flute solo passage in the arrangement – rare in Beatles work, typically in baroque or pastoral settings
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Folk37 songs
- Acoustic-led, melodically direct, with structural and thematic influences from traditional folk music
- Music: Music genre
- Folk rock32 songs
- Folk-song structures and themes amplified with rock-band instrumentation.
- Music: Music genre
- Food and drinks27 songs
- Specific food or drink references appear as imagery, symbols, or subject matter
- Text: Motif
- for [NOUN] with [VERB] that [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- Foreign language10 songs
- The song includes lyrics or phrases in a language other than English
- Text: Vocabulary
- Found inspiration25 songs
- Lyrics drawn from found text – newspapers, product packaging, posters, or overheard phrases
- Text: Motif
- Fragile Lennon20 songs
- Rare moments of emotional vulnerability and openness in John Lennon's writing
- Info: Song family
- Framus Hootenanny8 songs
- Twelve-string acoustic guitar – John Lennon's instrument on early 1965 sessions.
- Studio: Equipment
- Francie Schwartz2 songs
- American writer; a 1968 girlfriend of Paul McCartney.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Beatles team(1)
- Francisco Gabarro4 songs
- Session cellist at EMI Studios who played on the Beatles' Yesterday recording.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Cello(2)
- Frank Clarke2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Double bass(1)
- Frank Reidy3 songs
- British clarinettist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Clarinet(1)People: Session musician(1)People: Bass clarinet(1)
- Fred Alexander2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Cello(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Fred Lucas4 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Freddie Gorman1 song
- Born April 11, 1939 · Detroit. Detroit songwriter and singer, briefly a Motown staffer and a U.S. postal worker – the everyday inspiration for "Please Mr. Postman". Co-wrote the…
- People: Songwriter
- Freddy Clayton5 songs
- Flugelhorn player credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trumpet(2)People: Session musician(2)People: Flugelhorn(1)
- Frederick Alexander2 songs
- Session instrumentalist working in London studios in the 1960s.
- People: Cello(1)People: Session musician(1)
- French horn solo2 songs
- An instrumental passage featuring French horn as the lead voice.
- Music: Solo / Riff
G
- G Mallen2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Gary Walker2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Guest musician(1)
- Gayleen Pease4 songs
- A fan from among the 'Apple scruffs' outside Abbey Road, invited in to sing backing vocals on 'Across the Universe'.
- People: Backing vocals(2)People: Beatles team(2)
- Geoff Emerick121 songs
- British recording engineer celebrated for the inventive microphone and tape techniques he pioneered at EMI's Abbey Road studios.
- People: Recording engineer(77)People: Assistant engineer(41)People: Tape loops(2)People: Backing vocals(1)
- George Harrison873 songs
- George Harrison on twelve-string electric guitar – Rickenbacker 360/12.
- People: Guitar(186)People: Electric guitar(163)People: Lead guitar(134)People: Backing vocals(127)People: Acoustic guitar(38)People: Handclaps(36)People: Lead singer(35)People: Songwriter(25)People: Twelve string guitar(18)People: Rhythm guitar(16)People: Bass guitar(11)People: Tambourine(9)People: 12-string electric guitar(7)People: Sitar(6)People: Classical guitar(6)People: Maracas(6)People: Tamboura(6)People: Producer(6)People: Organ(5)People: Percussion(4)People: Tape loops(2)People: Synthesizer(2)People: Sound effects(2)People: 6-string bass(2)People: Swarmandal(2)People: Piano(1)People: Timpani(1)People: Drums(1)People: Harmonium(1)People: Mellotron(1)People: Harmonica(1)People: Bongos(1)People: Claves(1)People: Noises(1)People: Dilruba(1)People: Banjolele(1)People: Ukulele(1)People: Güiro(1)People: Finger snaps(1)People: Tack piano(1)People: 12-string acoustic guitar(1)People: Bass harmonica(1)People: Spoken word(1)People: Violin(1)
- George Martin311 songs
- Classically trained English producer, arranger, and head of EMI's Parlophone label, widely called the 'Fifth Beatle' for his central role in shaping the band's recordings.
- People: Producer(211)People: Orchestral scoring(31)People: Piano(26)People: Conductor(12)People: Organ(11)People: Harmonium(4)People: Backing vocals(2)People: Celesta(2)People: Electric piano(2)People: Harpsichord(2)People: Tape loops(1)People: Tambourine(1)People: Spoken word(1)People: Maracas(1)People: Glockenspiel(1)People: Electric harpsichord(1)People: Mellotron(1)People: Tack piano(1)
- Georgia Dobbins1 song
- American singer and songwriter, originally of the Marvelettes. Adapted an existing blues song into "Please Mr. Postman" and helped shape the lyric, sharing credit with the team t…
- People: Songwriter
- Gerry Goffin1 song
- Born February 11, 1939 · Brooklyn, New York. Lyricist and songwriting partner – and first husband – of Carole King. With King he co-wrote "Chains" (Beatles on Please Please Me) a…
- People: Songwriter
- Gibson J-160E66 songs
- Acoustic guitar with built-in pickup – Lennon and Harrison's main acoustic 1962-64.
- Studio: Equipment
- Gibson Les Paul Standard12 songs
- Solid-body humbucker electric guitar with sustain-rich tone.
- Studio: Equipment
- Gibson SG9 songs
- The Gibson SG: a lightweight solid-body electric guitar with a thin double-cutaway body and a biting tone.
- Studio: Equipment
- Giles Martin2 songs
- British record producer and son of George Martin, known for remixing the Beatles' catalogue (the 'Love' soundtrack and the anniversary reissues) and for completing the final Beatl…
- People: Orchestral scoring(1)People: Producer(1)
- Girl group influence3 songs
- Early-1960s American girl-group vocal style and arrangement.
- Text: Influence
- Glyn Johns19 songs
- Influential British engineer and producer whose credits span the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, and the Eagles.
- People: Recording engineer(15)People: Producer(4)
- gonna [VERB] it with [NOUN] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- Goons influence6 songs
- The MUSIC borrows from The Goon Show: sped-up voices, sound-effect gags, deliberate silliness in the arrangement.
- Music: Influence(3)Text: Influence(3)
- Gordon Lewin3 songs
- British woodwind player active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Clarinet(1)People: Contra-bass clarinet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Gordon Pearce4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Double bass(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Gospel3 songs
- Influenced by American gospel – communal singing, call-and-response, or a spirit of collective uplift
- Music: Music genre
- Graham Nash2 songs
- English singer and guitarist, a founder of the Hollies and later Crosby, Stills & Nash, and a close friend of the Beatles in the 1960s.
- People: Guest musician(1)People: Backing vocals(1)
- Grammy Hall of Fame8 songs
- Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, an honour created in 1973 for recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.
- Info: Cultural impact
- Grammy winner5 songs
- Won a competitive Grammy, the American recording academy's award, for this song rather than for its album or for the group.
- Info: Cultural impact
- Granny song9 songs
- A music hall or vaudeville-style song aimed at older tastes; 'granny music' was a period nickname for the style, not McCartney's own coinage.
- Info: Song family
- Granville Jones2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Greg Bowen2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trumpet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins Nashville2 songs
- Gretsch hollow-body electric guitar from the Chet Atkins line.
- Studio: Equipment
- Gretsch 6122 Country Gentleman25 songs
- Harrison's main hollow-body electric guitar of the mid-60s.
- Studio: Equipment
- Gretsch Duo Jet13 songs
- Hollow-body electric guitar with mahogany construction – Harrison's first quality guitar.
- Studio: Equipment
- Group vocals19 songs
- All band members sing together as a group rather than one lead with backings.
- Music: Vocal work
- Guitar and bass doubling6 songs
- Guitar and bass play the same line in unison or in octaves.
- Music: Guitar work
- Guitar intro3 songs
- The record opens on guitar alone, before any other instrument or voice enters.
- Music: Guitar work
- Guitar riff17 songs
- A short repeated guitar figure that anchors or defines a passage.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Guitar solo74 songs
- A lead guitar solo – George Harrison's defining contribution to the Beatles' sound
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Gwynne Edwards2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Viola(1)People: Session musician(1)
H
- Half rhyme101 songs
- Near-rhyme where consonants match but vowels differ slightly (some/home).
- Text: Rhyme type
- Hamburg Steinway32 songs
- The Steinway baby grand kept in EMI's Studio Two, played on many of the group's piano parts.
- Studio: Equipment
- Hammond C-32 songs
- Hammond's church-style console organ, the tonewheel instrument usually paired with a Leslie cabinet.
- Studio: Equipment
- Hammond L-1007 songs
- Hammond's compact spinet organ, a smaller drawbar instrument than the studio's RT-3 console model.
- Studio: Equipment
- Hammond RT-328 songs
- The Hammond B-3 tonewheel organ, typically routed through a Leslie rotating speaker cabinet
- Studio: Equipment
- Hans Geiger2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Hanuman Jadev2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Shehnai(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Hard rock21 songs
- Loud, aggressive rock with heavy guitar distortion and powerful drums.
- Music: Music genre
- Hariprasad Chaurasia2 songs
- Renowned Indian classical flautist and music director, a master of the bansuri in the Hindustani tradition.
- People: Bansuri(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Harmonica15 songs
- Blues harmonica – played extensively by Lennon on early singles and BBC recordings
- Music: Arrangement
- Harmonica riff3 songs
- A short repeated harmonica figure that anchors or defines a passage.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Harmonica solo7 songs
- A Hohner harmonica solo, most associated with John Lennon's early playing on singles and BBC sessions
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Harmonium11 songs
- Free-reed keyboard pumped by foot bellows, producing a sustained drone-like tone.
- Music: Arrangement
- Harold Jackson2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trumpet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Harold Spain2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trombone(1)
- Harp7 songs
- Concert harp adding classical elegance or ethereal, heavenly texture to the arrangement
- Music: Arrangement
- Harpsichord6 songs
- Plucked keyboard instrument giving a baroque, quill-toned, historical character
- Music: Arrangement
- Harpsichord solo1 song
- An instrumental passage featuring harpsichord as the lead voice.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Harry Klein7 songs
- Baritone saxophonist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Baritone saxophone(3)People: Session musician(3)People: Saxophone(1)
- Harry Spain2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trombone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Heavy drums6 songs
- Ringo Starr plays with unusual force and attack, driving the track rather than keeping time behind it.
- Music: Drum work
- Heavy guitars12 songs
- Thick, overdriven, or heavily amplified guitar tones define the song's sonic identity
- Music: Guitar work
- Heavy hi-hat5 songs
- The hi-hat cymbal drives the rhythmic feel more prominently than in a typical Beatles arrangement
- Music: Drum work
- Help! (US)7 songs
- Capitol release, August 1965. Only 7 Beatles tracks (versus 14 on the UK album), with 5 Ken Thorne orchestral score tracks filling side two.
- Info: US release
- Hemiola6 songs
- A rhythmic effect superimposing two beats in the space of three (or vice versa).
- Music: Melody
- Henry Datyner6 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(3)People: Violin(3)
- Henry MacKenzie2 songs
- British clarinettist and prolific London session player.
- People: Clarinet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Henry Myerscough2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Viola(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Hey Jude10 songs
- Capitol US-only singles compilation released February 1970. 10 tracks collecting non-album singles from 1964-1969.
- Info: US release
- High bass notes3 songs
- Paul McCartney plays unusually high register bass passages, sometimes in the guitar's territory
- Music: Bass work
- HMV Studios, Bombay1 song
- EMI's Bombay studio – George Harrison's 'The Inner Light' backing track session.
- Studio: Recording location
- Hofner 500/193 songs
- McCartney's iconic violin-shaped Höfner 500/1 bass – the visual symbol of the early Merseybeat Beatles
- Studio: Equipment
- Hofner 5140 Hawaiian Standard1 song
- A lap steel guitar, played across the lap with a slide rather than fretted.
- Studio: Equipment
- Hog Hill Mill2 songs
- Paul McCartney's private studio in East Sussex, used on the reunion singles.
- Studio: Recording location
- Hohner Chromonica4 songs
- The C chromatic John Lennon played; the source puts a chromatic on all four
- Studio: Equipment
- Hohner Pianet11 songs
- Hohner electromechanical reed piano with thinner, reedier tone than a Rhodes.
- Studio: Equipment
- Home74 songs
- House, hearth, or domestic space as central imagery.
- Text: Motif(43)Text: Recurring words(31)
- Home recording3 songs
- Captured at a band member's home studio or with portable equipment.
- Studio: Recording location
- Hunter Davies2 songs
- British journalist and author of the Beatles' only authorised biography, published in 1968.
- People: Beatles team(1)People: Backing vocals(1)
I
- I469 songs
- Songs whose opening chord is the I scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(188)Music: Opening chord(144)Music: Ending chord(137)
- i68 songs
- Songs whose opening chord is the i scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(40)Music: Opening chord(18)Music: Ending chord(10)
- i can tell you is brother you have2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- I–♭III–IV–I–IV2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F → A♭ → B♭ → F → B♭; G → B♭ → C7 → G → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–♭III–V–I–IV2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → C → E → A → D7; E7 → G → B7 → E7 → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- i–♭VI–V–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Bm → G → F♯7sus4 → F♯7; Bm6/G♯ → Gmaj7 → F♯sus4 → F♯7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–♭VII–I–IV5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C/E → B♭ → C → F; A7 → G → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–♭VII–I–IV–V3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A7 → G → A → D → E; A → G → A → D → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–♭VII–IV–I–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E → D → A → E → B; E → D → A → E → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- i–i–♭VI5 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → Am7 → F7; Fm7 → Fm6/D → D♭maj7)
- Music: Chord degree
- i–i–♭VI–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Fm7 → Fm6/D → D♭maj7 → C7; Bm7 → Bm6/G♯ → Gmaj7 → F♯sus4)
- Music: Chord degree
- i–i–i4 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Fm → Fm(maj7) → Fm7; Bm → Bm6 → Bm7)
- Music: Chord degree
- i–i–i–♭VI4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am7 → Am → Am7 → F7; Fm(maj7) → Fm7 → Fm6/D → D♭maj7)
- Music: Chord degree
- i–i–i–♭VI–♭VII2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Am7 → Am → Am7 → F7 → G7; Dm → Dm(maj7)/C♯ → Dm7/C → B♭/D → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- i–i–i–i–♭VI3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → Am7 → Am → Am7 → F7; Fm → Fm(maj7) → Fm7 → Fm6/D → D♭maj7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–I–IV5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C → Cmaj7 → C7 → F; A → Asus4 → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–IV–I4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → A7 → D7 → A7; Asus4 → A → D → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–IV–I–IV–I3 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. A → A7 → D7 → A7 → D7 → A7; G → G7 → C → G7 → C → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–IV–I–IV–I–IV–I2 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. A → A7 → D7 → A7 → D7 → A7 → D7 → A7; G → G7 → C → G7 → C → G7 → C → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–IV–I–V8 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → A7 → D → A → E7; G → G7 → C7 → G → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–IV–I–V–IV3 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. G → G7 → C7 → G → D7 → C7; D → D7 → G7 → D → A7 → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–IV–II3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → A7 → D → B7; Cmaj7 → C7 → F → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–IV–II–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Cmaj7 → C7 → F → D7 → G; D → D7 → G → E7 → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–IV–iv7 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C → C7 → F → Fm6; F → F7 → B♭ → B♭m6)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–I–IV–vi2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Asus4 → A → D → F♯m; E♭ → E♭7 → A♭ → Cm)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–ii–I–IV3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → Am7 → G/B → C; F♯ → G♯m → F♯/A♯ → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–II–IV–I–II–IV–I–IV2 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. A → B → D → A → B → D → A → D; G → A7 → C7 → G → A7 → C7 → G → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–ii–V–I–vi3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D6 → Em7/D → A7 → D6 → Bm7; E → F♯m → B → E → C♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–ii–V–I–vi–ii2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. D6 → Em7/D → A7 → D6 → Bm7 → Em7; G → Am7 → D → G → Em → Am)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–II–V–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → A7 → D7 → C7; G → A → D → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–iii–ii–V3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E♭ → Gm/D → Fm/C → B♭7; E → G♯m7 → F♯m7 → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–iii–vi11 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. A → C♯m/G♯ → F♯m; B♭ → Dm/A → Gm)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–III–vi–I–IV2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D → F♯/A♯ → Bm → D/F♯ → G; C → E7 → Am → C7 → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–III–vi–ii2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C → E7 → Am → Dm9; G → B7 → Em → Am)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–iii–vi–ii–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. C → Em → Am → Dm9 → G7; A → C♯m → F♯m → Bm → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–iii–vi–IV3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → C♯m → F♯m → D; G → Bm → Em → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–III–vi–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → B7 → Em → C; E → G♯7 → C♯m → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–♭III–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → C → D; F7 → B♭ → A♭add9 → B♭7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–♭VI–♭III2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D/A → F → C; E7/D → A/C♯ → C → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–♭VII–♭III4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → A → D → G; A/E → D → G → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–iv–♭VII–♭III2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → Dm → G7 → C; A7 → Dm → G7 → C/B)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–♭VII–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → C → F → C; A → D/A → G → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–♭VII–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → A → D → B7; E → A → D → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–♭III2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → C7 → G → B♭; E7 → A7 → E7 → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–♭VII6 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C/E → F → C/E → B♭; G7 → C → G → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–I5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → A6 → Emaj7/B → E6; A → D → A → Asus4)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–IV–♭VII2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. G → C → G → C → F; A → D/A → A → D/A → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–IV–I–IV–I–V4 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → A → D → A → D → A → E; E → A → E → A → E → A → E → Bsus4)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–IV–I–IV–V6 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → A → D → A → D → E; A → D6 → A → D6 → A → D6 → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–IV–I–V8 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → A → D → A → E; E7 → A7 → E7 → A7 → E7 → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–IV–I–V–IV3 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. E7 → A7 → E7 → A7 → E7 → B7 → A7; A7 → D7 → A7 → D7 → A7 → E7 → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–IV–V9 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F → B♭ → F → B♭ → C; A → D → A → D → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–IV–vi3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E → A → E → A → C♯m; E → A → E → A → C♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–V52 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F → B♭ → F → C7; C/G → F → C → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–V–I5 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E7 → A7 → E7 → B7 → E; A7 → D7 → A → E7 → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–V–I–IV–V2 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. G → C → G → D7 → G → C → D7; G → C → G → D7 → G → C → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–V–I–V4 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. A7 → D7 → A7 → E7 → A7 → E7; A/E → D → A → E7 → A → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–V–IV21 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D7 → G7 → D7 → A7 → G7; E7 → A7 → E7 → B7 → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–V–IV–I4 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. G7 → C7 → G → D7 → C7 → G; B7 → E7 → B7 → F♯7 → E7 → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–V–IV–I–V9 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. G7 → C7 → G7 → D7♯9 → C7 → G7 → D7; G7 → C7 → G → D7 → C7 → G → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–V–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E → A → E → Bsus4 → B7; D → G → D → A7sus4 → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–vi4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → A → E → C♯m; A → D → A → F♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–I–vi–IV3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → A → F♯m → D; A → D → A → F♯m → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–ii–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → A → F♯m7 → B7; G → C → Am7 → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–iv–I10 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C7 → F → Fm6 → C; F7 → B♭ → B♭m6 → F/A)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–iv–I–II2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A7 → D → Dm → A → B; D → G → Gm → D → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–iv–I–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D9 → G → Gm → D → A7; D → G/B → Gm/B♭ → D/A → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–iv–I–VI4 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F7 → B♭ → B♭m6 → F/A → D7; C7 → F → Fm → C → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–iv–I–VI–II–V–I3 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. C7 → F → Fm → C → A7 → D7 → G7 → C; G7 → C → Cm → G → E7 → A7 → D7 → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–V–I–♭VII2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → E → A → G; D → G → A → D → C/D)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–V–I–I3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → E → A → A7; F → B♭ → C7 → F → F7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–V–I–I–♭VII2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → E → A → A7 → G; C7 → F → G7 → C → C7 → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–V–I–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F7 → B♭ → C7 → F → C7; G → C → D7 → G → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–V–I–vi4 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F → B♭ → C7 → F → Dm; G7 → C → D → G → Em)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–V–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F → B♭ → C → B♭; C → F → G7 → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–V–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → C → Dsus4 → D; D → G → A → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–V–vi2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F7 → B♭ → C7 → Dm; D7 → G7 → A7 → Bm/F♯)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–vi–ii2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → A → C♯m → F♯m; E♭7 → A♭ → Cm → Fm7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–IV–vi–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → A → C♯m → A; D → G → Bm → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–I–II–V3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E → B → E → F♯ → B; G → D7 → G → A7 → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–I–iii2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D/A → A/C♯ → D → F♯m/C♯; G → D7 → G → Bm)
- Music: Chord degree
- i–V–i–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C♯m → G♯7 → C♯m → F♯sus4; F♯m → C♯7 → F♯m → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–I–IV–I–V–IV2 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. A → E7 → A → D → A → E7 → D; C7 → G7 → C7 → F7 → C7 → G7 → F7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–I–IV–V4 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F → C7 → F7 → B♭ → C7; G → D7 → G → C → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–IV–I–IV3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. G → D → C → G → C; A7 → E7 → D7 → A7 → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–IV–I–V3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. G7 → D7♯9 → C7 → G7 → D7; B♭ → F9 → E♭9 → B♭ → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–IV–I–V–IV2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. B7 → F♯7 → E7 → B → F♯ → E; G → D7 → C7 → G → D7 → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–V–I–IV2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D → A → A7 → D → G; F → C → C7 → F → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–vi–II2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → B → C♯m → F♯; A♭ → E♭7 → Fm → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–vi–III3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → D → Em → B; G → D → Em → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–V–vi–IV–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. G → D → Em → C → D; D → A → Bm → G → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–♭VI–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → F♯m7 → F → E; A → F♯m → F → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–I–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → C♯m → E → A; B → G♯m → B/F♯ → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–I–vi–IV–V2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. C → Am → C → Am → F9 → G; E → C♯m → E → C♯m → A → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–ii–♭VII–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → F♯m → Bm → G → E; G → Em → Am → F → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–VI–ii–V7 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D → B7 → Em → A9; F → D7 → Gm7 → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–VI–II–V6 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → F♯7 → B7 → E7; E7 → C♯7 → F♯7 → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–iii–ii3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → F♯m → C♯m → Bm; D → Bm → F♯m → Em7)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–iii–V5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C → Am → Em → G7; D → Bm7 → F♯m → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–IV–I–IV2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → F♯m → D → A → D; F♯ → D♯m → B → F♯ → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–IV–V–IV2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. C → Am → F9 → G → F; B♭ → Gm → E♭ → F → E♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–IV–V–vi3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E♭ → Cm → A♭ → B♭ → Cm; E → C♯m → A → B → C♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–IV–V–vi–IV–V–vi2 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. E → C♯m → A → B → C♯m → A → B → C♯m; E → C♯m → A → B → C♯m → A → B → C♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–vi–vi2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. D → Bm7 → Bm6; G → Em → Em(maj7)/D♯)
- Music: Chord degree
- I–VII–IV–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → G♯7 → D → E; G → F♯7 → C → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- i've [VERB] i'm in [VERB] with2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- I+2 songs
- Chord on the I+ scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- i66 songs
- Chord on the i6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- I612 songs
- Chord on the I6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- I772 songs
- Chord on the I7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- I7♯91 song
- Chord on the I7♯9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- I7sus41 song
- Chord on the I7sus4 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- I94 songs
- Chord on the I9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Iadd93 songs
- Chord on the Iadd9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Ian Hamer2 songs
- British jazz trumpeter and arranger active on the London session scene in the 1960s.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trumpet(1)
- Identical release130 songs
- Same album or single released in both UK and US markets with identical content, possibly on a different date.
- Info: US release
- idim71 song
- Chord on the idim7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- if you [VERB] [NOUN] for [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- if you want money for people with minds2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- ii83 songs
- Songs whose opening chord is the ii scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(70)Music: Opening chord(10)Music: Ending chord(3)
- II39 songs
- Chord on the II scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(30)Music: Opening chord(6)Music: Ending chord(3)
- II to ♭III1 song
- Section boundary moves from the II chord to the ♭III chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ii–♭VII–I–vi2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → F → G → Em7; Bm → G → A → F♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–♭VII–V–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Bm → G → E7 → A; Bm → G → E → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–I–ii–V3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Gm7 → F6 → Gm → C; Em7/D → D6 → Em7/D → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–I–ii–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Em7/D → D6 → Em7/D → A7 → D6; Gm7 → F → Gm7 → C7♭9 → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–I–IV–I3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Gm → F → B♭ → F; G♯m → F♯/A♯ → B → F♯)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–I–IV–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B/F♯ → A7 → D7 → A; B7 → A → D/F♯ → A/E)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–I–V–vi–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Em → D → A → Bm → A; Dm7/F → C → G → Am → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–II–I–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D → D7/C → C → G; D7♯9 → D7 → C7 → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–II–II–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D → Dsus4 → D → F; D7 → D7♯9 → D7 → F7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–ii–V3 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Gm → Gm7 → C7; Gm(maj7) → Gm7 → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–II–V2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. D → D7/C → Gmaj7/B; D7sus4 → D7 → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–iii–IV–I3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am7 → Bm7 → Cmaj7 → G; F♯m → G♯m → A → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–III–IV–V3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭m → C7 → D♭ → E♭; F♯m → G♯ → A → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–iii–vi2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Em/G → F♯m → Bm; Bm → C♯m → F♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–IV–I6 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Dm7/F → F → C/E; F♯m7 → Amaj7/B → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–IV–I–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯7 → A → E7 → E; B → D → A → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–IV–I–IV–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B → D → A → D → A; A7 → C7 → G → C7 → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–IV–I–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → C → G/D → D7; Gm → B♭ → F → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–♭VI2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m7 → B13 → E6 → C; Gm7 → C7 → F → D♭7)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–V–I–♭VII2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯ → B → E → D; F♯7 → B7 → E → D/E)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–♭VII2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → B → E → D; Am → D7 → G → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–I6 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Fm → B♭ → E♭ → E♭7/D; Gm7 → C7 → F → F7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–I–IV3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Fm → B♭ → E♭ → E♭7/D → A♭; Gm7 → C7 → F → F7 → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–II2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Em → A → D → E7; Bm → E7 → A → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–iii4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Dm → G7 → C → Em; Bm → E → A → C♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–iii–vi2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Dm → G7 → C → Em → Am; Fm7 → B♭7 → E♭ → Gm → Cm)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–IV4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m7 → B7 → E → A; Gm7 → C7 → F7 → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–V–I–IV–I3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B → E → A → D → A; D7 → G7 → C → F → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–V3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Em → A9 → D → A; F♯m → B → E → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–V–I–V3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭7 → E♭ → A♭ → E♭7; F♯ → B → E → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–V–I–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭7 → E♭ → A♭ → E♭7 → A♭; E7 → A → D → Asus4 → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–VI5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Gm7 → C7 → F → D7; Gm → C7 → F → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–V–I–VI2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯7 → B7 → E7 → C♯7; E7 → A6 → D → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–VI–ii–V–I–I2 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. Gm7 → C7 → F → D7 → Gm7 → C7 → F → F7; Gm → C7 → F → D7 → Gm → C7 → F → F7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–I–vi–IV2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m7 → B7 → E → C♯m → A; Em → A → D → Bm → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–ii–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Em → A → Em → A → D; Bm7 → E7 → Bm7 → E7 → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–V–IV–I3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B7 → E7 → D7 → A; A7 → D7 → C7 → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–IV–V3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → B7 → A → B; F♯m/B → B6 → A/B → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ii–V–V4 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Fm → B♭sus4 → B♭; Bm → E7sus4 → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- II–vi–II–V3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → Fm7 → B♭7 → E♭; G9 → Dm → G9 → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- II+1 song
- Chord on the II+ scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ii61 song
- Chord on the ii6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- II7♭91 song
- Chord on the II7♭9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- II7♯91 song
- Chord on the II7♯9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- II7sus41 song
- Chord on the II7sus4 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- II95 songs
- Chord on the II9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ii91 song
- Chord on the ii9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- iidim2 songs
- Chord on the iidim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- III12 songs
- Songs whose final chord is the III scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(11)Music: Ending chord(1)
- iii56 songs
- Songs whose opening chord is the iii scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(53)Music: Opening chord(2)Music: Ending chord(1)
- iii–♭iii°–ii2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → Fdim → Em7; Am → G♯dim → Gm7)
- Music: Chord degree
- iii–ii–V6 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Gm/D → Fm/C → B♭7; G♯m7 → F♯m7 → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- iii–IV–ii–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Bm → C → Am7 → D7; G♯m → A → F♯m → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- iii–IV–iii–ii2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Em → Fmaj7 → Em → Dm7; G♯m7 → A → G♯m7 → F♯m7)
- Music: Chord degree
- iii–IV–V–I5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → G → A → D; Bm → C → D → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- iii–vi–ii–V5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Em → Am → Dm9 → G7; Am → Dm → Gm7 → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- III–vi–ii–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A7 → Dm → Gm → C7; E7 → Am → Dm9 → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- iii–vi–iii–vi–ii–V2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. C♯m → F♯m → C♯m → F♯m → Bm → E; Em → Am → Em → Am → Dm7 → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- iii–vi–IV–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Bm → Em → C → G/D; Gm → Cm → A♭ → E♭/G)
- Music: Chord degree
- III–vi–IV–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. G♯7 → C♯m → A → B → E; A7 → Dm → B♭ → C7 → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- III+1 song
- Chord on the III+ scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- iii61 song
- Chord on the iii6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- iii78 songs
- Chord on the iii7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- III722 songs
- Chord on the III7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- III7sus41 song
- Chord on the III7sus4 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- IIIadd91 song
- Chord on the IIIadd9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- iiidim2 songs
- Chord on the iiidim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- iim(M7)1 song
- Chord on the iim(M7) scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- iiø2 songs
- Chord on the iiø scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- im(M7)2 songs
- Chord on the im(M7) scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Imperative94 songs
- Lyrics issuing direct commands or instructions – 'Come together', 'Let it be', 'Don't let me down'
- Text: Narrative
- Imperative in title13 songs
- The title is or includes an imperative – a direct command to do something.
- Text: Title
- Indian10 songs
- Beatles songs arranged with Indian classical instruments – sitar, tabla, tambura, swarmandal, dilruba and the like.
- Music: Instrument group
- Indian classical5 songs
- Rooted in North Indian classical music – raga scales, drone foundations, and tabla rhythm patterns
- Music: Music genre
- Indian music influence20 songs
- Indian classical scales, drones, or instruments shape the writing.
- Music: Influence
- Instructional11 songs
- The lyric tells the listener what to do – imperatives as the core mode.
- Text: Motif
- Internal rhyme131 songs
- Rhyme between a word inside a line and its end-word, or between two interior words.
- Text: Rhyme type
- Introducing The Beatles14 songs
- First US album, released by Vee-Jay Records in January 1964. Contains 12 tracks from the UK Please Please Me, minus 'Please Please Me' and 'Ask Me Why'.
- Info: US release
- Irene King4 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Irony11 songs
- The lyrics say one thing but mean another – sarcasm, understatement, or deliberate contradiction
- Text: Lyrical device
- Isley Brothers influence1 song
- R&B/soul vocal group, source of the 'Twist and Shout' arrangement.
- Music: Influence
- it [VERB] [VERB] [NOUN] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- IV182 songs
- Chord on the IV scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(166)Music: Ending chord(8)Music: Opening chord(8)
- iv43 songs
- Songs whose final chord is the iv scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(42)Music: Ending chord(1)
- IV to ♭III1 song
- Section boundary moves from the IV chord to the ♭III chord.
- Music: Section transition
- iv to ♭VII1 song
- Section boundary moves from the iv chord to the ♭VII chord.
- Music: Section transition
- IV to ♭VII3 songs
- Section boundary moves from the IV chord to the ♭VII chord.
- Music: Section transition
- iv–♭VII–♭III–♭VI2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Dm7 → G7 → Cmaj7 → Fmaj7; Dm7 → G7 → C → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–♭VII–♭III–I4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → G → E; D7 → G7 → C7 → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–♭VII–♭III–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B → E → A → C♯7; D7 → G7 → C → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–♭VII–I–vi2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F → B♭ → C → Am; D → G → A → F♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–♭VII–IV–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C → F → C → D; C7 → F7 → C7 → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–♯iv°–V2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. C → C♯dim → Dadd4; F → F♯dim7 → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–♭III–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → E → G → B; A7 → E7 → G → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–♭VII–I4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F → C/E → B♭ → C; C → G → F → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–I–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D → A → Asus4 → A; C/G → G → Gadd9 → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–I–IV–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. C → G → G7 → C → D; E♭ → B♭ → B♭7 → E♭ → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–II–V5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. E → B → C♯ → F♯; C → G/B → A7 → D7sus4)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–ii–V3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → D → Em → A7; A♭ → E♭/G → Fm7 → B♭7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–ii–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. G → D → Em → A7 → D; A♭ → E♭/G → Fm7 → B♭7 → E♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–III–vi2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F7 → C → E7 → Am; C → G → B7 → Em)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–♭III2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D → A → D → C; C → G → C → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C → G7 → C → G; G → D7 → G7 → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–♭VII3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F → C/E → F → C/E → B♭; C → G7 → C → G → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–♭VII–I2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. F → C/E → F → C/E → B♭ → C; C → G7 → C → G → F → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. C/G → G → C/G → G → Gadd9; C7 → G → C7 → G → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–IV–I–♭VII2 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. C → G7 → C → G7 → C → G → F; D → A → D → A → D → A → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–IV–I–IV–V4 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. D → A → D → A → D → A → D → E; C → G → C → G → C → G → C → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–IV–I–V5 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. D → A → D → A → D → A → E; G → D → G → D → G → D → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–IV–V7 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → F → B♭ → F → B♭ → C; D → A → D → A → D → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–IV–V–I3 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → F → B♭ → F → B♭ → C → F; C → G → C → G → C → D → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–IV–vi2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. A → E → A → E → A → C♯m; G → D → G → D → G → Bm)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–V11 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D → A → D → A → E; A7 → E7 → A7 → E7 → B7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–V–I3 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. G → D → G → D → A → D; D/F♯ → A/E → D → A → E7 → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–I–VI–ii–V–I2 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → F → B♭ → F → D7 → Gm → C7 → F; B → F♯ → B → F♯ → D♯7 → G♯m7 → C♯7 → F♯)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–iv–I3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. G → D → G → Gm → D; A → E → A → Am → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–V10 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → F → B♭ → C; D → A → D → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–IV–V–I6 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → F → B♭ → C → F; F → C → F → G → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–V–I29 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → D → A → D; D7 → A7 → E7 → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- iv–I–v–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Em → B7 → F♯m → B7; B♭m6 → F → Cm7 → F7)
- Music: Chord degree
- iv–I–V–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Gm/B♭ → D/A → A/C♯ → D; Gm/B♭ → D/A → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–V–I–V5 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D7 → A7 → E7 → A7 → E7; D → A → E7 → A → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–V–I–V–I3 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. D7 → A7 → E7 → A7 → E7 → A7; A7 → E → B7 → E → B7 → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–V–IV–I3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E7 → B7 → F♯7 → E7 → B; G7 → D7 → A → G → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–V–IV–I–V4 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. C7 → G7 → D7♯9 → C7 → G7 → D7; E♭9 → B♭ → F9 → E♭9 → B♭ → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–I–V–vi3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → E → B → C♯m; F → C → G → Am)
- Music: Chord degree
- iv–I–vi–iii3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Gm7 → D → Bm7 → F♯m; Gm → D → Bm → F♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–ii–V–I5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A♭ → Fm → B♭ → E♭; A → F♯m → B7 → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–iii–ii–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → Am → Gm → F; A → G♯m7 → F♯m7 → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–iv–I–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F → Fm6 → C → C7; C → Cm → G → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–iv–I–II–V3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. C → Cm → G/B → A7 → D7sus4; D → Dm → A → B7 → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–iv–I–VI5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → B♭m6 → F/A → D7; F → Fm → C → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–iv–I–vi2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G9 → Gm7 → D → Bm7; F → Fm → C → Am)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–iv–I–VI–ii2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → B♭m6 → F/A → D7 → Gm7; B♭ → B♭m → F → D7 → Gm)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–I–♭VII3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D → E → A → G; G → A → D → C/D)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–I–I4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → C7 → Fsus4 → F; F → G7 → C7 → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–I–IV–I8 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. C → D → G → C → G; C → D → G → C9 → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–I–IV–I–IV–I2 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. C → D → G → C → G → C → G; G → A → D → G7 → D → G7 → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–I–V–I4 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → C7 → F → C7 → F7; C → D → G → D → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–I–vi15 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A♭ → B♭ → E♭ → Cm; B♭ → C7 → F → Dm)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–IV3 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. C → D → Csus2; A♭add9 → B♭7 → A♭maj7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–IV–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A♭add9 → B♭7 → A♭maj7 → B♭7; F9 → G → F → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–IV–V–IV–V–I4 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. G → A → G → A → G → A → D; C → D → C → D → C → D → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–vi–ii3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D♭ → E♭ → Fm → B♭m; A → B → C♯m → F♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–vi–ii–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → B → C♯m → F♯m → B7; G7 → A7 → Bm/F♯ → Em → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV–V–vi–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A♭ → B♭ → Cm → B♭; F → G → Am → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- IV64 songs
- Chord on the IV6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- iv66 songs
- Chord on the iv6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- IV7♯91 song
- Chord on the IV7♯9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- IV94 songs
- Chord on the IV9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- iv91 song
- Chord on the iv9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- IVadd93 songs
- Chord on the IVadd9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ivdim1 song
- Chord on the ivdim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- IVmaj78 songs
- Chord on the IVmaj7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Ivor Novello award11 songs
- The British songwriting award, presented by the Ivors Academy for the year's most performed, best selling or best written songs.
- Info: Cultural impact
J
- J Fraser2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- J Smith2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- J. Power2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trombone(1)
- Jack Brymer2 songs
- One of England's foremost classical clarinettists, principal with major London orchestras.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Clarinet(1)
- Jack Ellory2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Flute(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Jack Emblow2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Accordion(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Jack Fallon2 songs
- British jazz double bassist and violinist active on the London session scene.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Jack Greene4 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Violin(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Jack Holmes2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Cello(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Jack Richards2 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Jack Rothstein4 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Violin(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Jackie Lomax3 songs
- British singer-songwriter (1944-2013), first artist signed to Apple Records in 1968.
- People: Handclaps(1)People: Backing vocals(1)People: Guest musician(1)
- Jacques Esmenjaud3 songs
- Recording engineer credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Assistant engineer
- James W. Buck2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: French horn(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Jane Asher2 songs
- English actress and Paul McCartney's girlfriend through the mid-1960s, a fixture of London's arts scene.
- People: Beatles team(1)People: Backing vocals(1)
- Jangle pop4 songs
- Bright, chiming twelve-string guitars over melodic pop songcraft.
- Music: Music genre
- Janie Bradford1 song
- Born December 22, 1939 · Memphis. Motown receptionist who co-wrote "Money (That's What I Want)" with Berry Gordy in 1959 – Motown's first major hit and a Beatles staple covered o…
- People: Songwriter
- Jeff Jarratt10 songs
- EMI Studios staff engineer of the 1960s.
- People: Recording engineer(9)People: Assistant engineer(1)
- Jeff Lynne6 songs
- British singer, songwriter, and producer; frontman of Electric Light Orchestra and a Traveling Wilburys member with George Harrison.
- People: Producer(2)People: Electric guitar(2)People: Guitar(2)
- Jérôme Leroy1 song
- French conductor and orchestrator active in film and concert music.
- People: Conductor
- Jerry Leiber1 song
- Born April 25, 1933 · Baltimore. Half of the Leiber and Stoller team that wrote and produced some of the most influential rock and roll songs of the 1950s. With Mike Stoller he w…
- People: Songwriter
- Jew's harp1 song
- A small lamellophone held against the teeth and plucked, its twang shaped by the player's mouth cavity.
- Music: Arrangement
- Jewelry9 songs
- Rings, diamonds and other jewellery in the lyrics, usually standing for love, wealth or commitment.
- Text: Motif
- Jill Utting2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Jim Chester2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Saxophone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- John Barham2 songs
- British arranger, pianist and composer (b. 1945); close collaborator of George Harrison who arranged choral and orchestral parts on Beatles and Apple records.
- People: Orchestral scoring
- John Bryning3 songs
- British actor active in mid-20th-century radio and theatre.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)People: Spoken word(1)
- John Burden2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: French horn(1)
- John Jezzard2 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- John Kurlander17 songs
- EMI second engineer on the Abbey Road sessions, later a film score engineer.
- People: Assistant engineer
- John Lee2 songs
- British trombonist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trombone(1)
- John Lennon963 songs
- John Lennon contributing assorted noises and sound effects.
- People: Guitar(166)People: Lead singer(116)People: Rhythm guitar(115)People: Electric guitar(104)People: Songwriter(99)People: Backing vocals(95)People: Acoustic guitar(67)People: Handclaps(34)People: Piano(18)People: Organ(17)People: Lead guitar(15)People: Tambourine(15)People: Harmonica(15)People: Spoken word(8)People: Percussion(7)People: Bass guitar(6)People: Twelve string guitar(6)People: Sound effects(6)People: Maracas(5)People: 6-string bass(5)People: Electric piano(4)People: Mellotron(4)People: Tape loops(4)People: Harmonium(4)People: Noises(4)People: 12-string acoustic guitar(2)People: Classical guitar(2)People: Drums(2)People: Congas(1)People: Harpsichord(1)People: Saxophone(1)People: Tenor saxophone(1)People: Ukulele(1)People: Harp(1)People: Bongos(1)People: Clavioline(1)People: Synthesizer(1)People: Glockenspiel(1)People: Trumpet(1)People: Celesta(1)People: Finger snaps(1)People: Producer(1)People: Lap steel guitar(1)People: Cowbell(1)People: Banjo(1)People: Jew's harp(1)
- John Marson2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Harp(1)
- John McCartney3 songs
- James Jim McCartney (1902-1976), Paul McCartneys father; trumpeter and pianist who led Jim Macs Jazz Band in 1920s Liverpool and inspired Pauls love of music.
- People: Handclaps(1)People: Backing vocals(1)People: Beatles team(1)
- John Meek2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Viola(1)
- John O’Neill2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- John Ronayne2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- John Scott3 songs
- British woodwind session player and film composer; played the flutes on 'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away'.
- People: Alto flute(1)People: Flute(1)People: Session musician(1)
- John Sharpe2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- John Skinner3 songs
- EMI Studios commissionaire, who joined the sound-effects crowd on Yellow Submarine.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Sound effects(1)People: Beatles team(1)
- John Underwood10 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Viola(5)People: Session musician(5)
- John Wilbraham2 songs
- English classical trumpeter, a leading orchestral soloist.
- People: Trumpet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Johnny Russell1 song
- Born January 23, 1940 · Sunflower County, Mississippi. Country songwriter and singer who co-wrote "Act Naturally" – Buck Owens's 1963 #1 covered by Ringo on Help! Later had his o…
- People: Songwriter
- Jose Luis Garcia2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- José‐Luis García2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Joy Hall2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Cello(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Julien Gaillard2 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- June Day2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Jurgen Hess4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Violin(2)People: Session musician(2)
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- Keith Cummings4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Viola(2)
- Keith Grant1 song
- Recording engineer and co-founder of Olympic Sound Studios.
- People: Recording engineer
- Keith Moon2 songs
- Drummer of the Who, famed for his explosive playing and chaotic reputation.
- People: Guest musician(1)People: Backing vocals(1)
- Keith Richards2 songs
- Guitarist and co-founder of the Rolling Stones.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Guest musician(1)
- Ken Essex2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Viola(1)
- Ken Scott85 songs
- British recording engineer and producer who went on to work with David Bowie, Elton John, and Supertramp.
- People: Assistant engineer(44)People: Recording engineer(41)
- Ken Townsend2 songs
- EMI engineer who invented ADT (artificial double tracking).
- People: Recording engineer
- Kenneth Essex4 songs
- Session viola player at EMI Studios who played on Beatles recordings including Yesterday.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Viola(2)
- Keyboard intro5 songs
- The record opens on a keyboard alone - piano, harpsichord, mellotron - before any other instrument or voice enters.
- Music: Keyboard work
- Keyboard riff1 song
- A repeating keyboard figure that functions as the song's hook rather than as a solo.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Keyboard solo19 songs
- Umbrella for a solo on any keyed instrument (piano, electric piano, organ, harpsichord, celesta, mellotron, Moog); the specific instrument is also tagged.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Keyboards127 songs
- Umbrella for the keyboard family: piano, organ, harpsichord, mellotron and the rest.
- Music: Instrument group
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- Lap steel guitar1 song
- A guitar played flat with a slide, giving a sliding, vocal-like line.
- Music: Arrangement
- Lap steel solo1 song
- An instrumental passage with lap-steel guitar as the lead voice.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Larry Williams3 songs
- Born May 10, 1935 · New Orleans. Specialty Records rock and roller whose raucous style hugely influenced Lennon. The Beatles covered three of his songs – "Slow Down" (Long Tall S…
- People: Songwriter
- Leo Birnbaum4 songs
- British violist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Viola(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Leon Calvert6 songs
- British trumpeter and flugelhornist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Trumpet(2)People: Flugelhorn(2)
- Les Condon2 songs
- British jazz trumpeter active on the London session and big-band scene in the 1960s.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trumpet(1)
- Les Maddox2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Leslie speaker20 songs
- Rotating-speaker cabinet originally built for Hammond organs, used widely on Beatles vocals and guitar.
- Studio: Equipment
- Leslie speaker processing15 songs
- Routing a vocal through a Leslie rotating-speaker cabinet for swirling effect.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Letter10 songs
- Written in the form of a letter, postcard, or direct personal message addressed to someone – P.S. I Love You, Paperback Writer, When I'm Sixty-Four
- Text: Recurring words(6)Text: Motif(4)
- Lewis Carroll influence4 songs
- Lewis Carroll's nonsense language, logical absurdity, and surreal wordplay evoking Alice in Wonderland
- Text: Influence
- Light25 songs
- Sunshine, illumination, or radiance as central imagery.
- Text: Motif(17)Text: Recurring words(8)
- Limited vocabulary45 songs
- Lyric uses few distinct words relative to total length – heavy repetition.
- Text: Vocabulary
- Linda McCartney2 songs
- American photographer, Paul McCartney's wife from 1969, and later co-founder of Wings.
- People: Beatles team(1)People: Backing vocals(1)
- Line cliché10 songs
- A stepwise descending or ascending bass line over a sustained chord, often the i-iimaj-V-i ('James Bond') figure.
- Music: Harmony
- Lionel Bentley2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Lionel Ross4 songs
- British cellist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Cello(2)
- List song8 songs
- Lyrics structured as an enumeration – cataloging items, names, places, or actions
- Text: Narrative
- Literary influence12 songs
- Drawing on canonical literary works, mythology, poetry, or the Western literary tradition
- Text: Influence
- Little Richard2 songs
- Born December 5, 1932 · Macon, Georgia. Self-styled architect of rock and roll, whose explosive vocals and gospel-rooted piano transformed popular music. The Beatles covered "Lon…
- People: Songwriter
- Little Richard influence6 songs
- Little Richard's piano-pounding rock-and-roll energy and falsetto whoops.
- Music: Influence
- Live recording9 songs
- Recorded as a single live take rather than overdubbed in layers.
- Info: Recording type
- Lizzie Bravo4 songs
- Brazilian teenage fan among the 'Apple scruffs' outside Abbey Road, invited in to sing backing vocals on 'Across the Universe'.
- People: Backing vocals(2)People: Beatles team(2)
- Long chorus14 songs
- Music: Section traits
- Lou Sofier2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Louis Stevens2 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Love214 songs
- Thematically centered on romantic love – declaration, pursuit, loss, or celebration of it
- Text: Motif(122)Text: Recurring words(92)
- Love song13 songs
- Thematically centered on romantic love – declaration, pursuit, longing, loss, or celebration
- Info: Song family
- Lowery Music Co.1 song
- Atlanta-based publisher associated with R&B and country catalogue.
- Info: Publisher
- Lowrey Heritage Deluxe DSO-12 songs
- American spinet electronic organ – McCartney's instrument on 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.'
- Studio: Equipment
- Ludwig Downbeat32 songs
- Ringo Starr's first Ludwig kit, a 20-inch Downbeat in Black Oyster Pearl finish, bought in May 1963.
- Studio: Equipment
- Ludwig Hollywood Maple38 songs
- Five-piece Ludwig drum kit in maple finish – Ringo's primary kit from 1967 onwards.
- Studio: Equipment
- Ludwig Super Classic109 songs
- Ringo Starr's 22-inch Ludwig Super Classic in Black Oyster Pearl finish, his main kit from May 1964.
- Studio: Equipment
- Luther Dixon2 songs
- Born August 7, 1931 · Newark. Songwriter and producer central to the Shirelles' early-60s success at Scepter Records. Co-wrote "Boys" (covered by the Beatles on Please Please Me,…
- People: Songwriter
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- Mack David1 song
- Born July 5, 1912 · New York City. Veteran Tin Pan Alley lyricist (and brother of Hal David), with credits stretching from the 1930s to the 1970s. Co-wrote "Baby It's You" with B…
- People: Songwriter
- Magic7 songs
- Spells, wonder, or supernatural transformation as imagery.
- Text: Motif(5)Text: Recurring words(2)
- Mahapurush Misra2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Pakhavaj(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Mal Evans34 songs
- Road manager and personal assistant to the Beatles from 1963 until his death in 1976; close confidant and constant studio presence.
- People: Beatles team(13)People: Backing vocals(4)People: Sound effects(3)People: Percussion(2)People: Handclaps(2)People: Spoken word(2)People: Tambourine(2)People: Piano(1)People: Noises(1)People: Harmonica(1)People: Trumpet(1)People: Organ(1)People: Drums(1)
- Malcolm Addey2 songs
- EMI recording engineer at Abbey Road in the early 1960s.
- People: Recording engineer
- Manny Winters2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Flute(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Many takes (20+)21 songs
- Twenty or more full takes recorded before settling on a master.
- Info: Recording type
- Marianne Faithfull4 songs
- English singer and actress at the centre of London's 1960s music scene and long associated with Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones.
- People: Guest musician(2)People: Backing vocals(2)
- Marijke Koger2 songs
- Dutch artist of The Fool collective; designed clothing and album artwork for the Beatles in 1967.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Tambourine(1)
- Mark Dignam3 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)People: Spoken word(1)
- Martin D-2816 songs
- Large-bodied dreadnought acoustic guitar with a powerful low end.
- Studio: Equipment
- Maureen Cox2 songs
- Ringo Starr's first wife (also credited as Maureen Starkey).
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Beatles team(1)
- Maureen Starkey2 songs
- Ringo Starrs first wife (1965-75).
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Beatles team(1)
- Medley11 songs
- Part of a continuous medley in which several short songs run together without breaks.
- Music: Song form
- Medley song9 songs
- Two distinct song fragments joined together into a single unified track
- Info: Song family
- Meet The Beatles!12 songs
- First Capitol Records album, released January 1964. Contains 9 tracks from With The Beatles plus 3 singles ('I Want to Hold Your Hand', 'I Saw Her Standing There', 'This Boy').
- Info: US release
- Mellotron7 songs
- A keyboard instrument playing back pre-recorded tape loops – most famously the flute intro of 'Strawberry Fields Forever'
- Music: Arrangement
- Mellotron Mark II6 songs
- Polyphonic tape-replay keyboard with flute, strings, and brass voices.
- Studio: Equipment
- Melodic bass21 songs
- The bass guitar carries a distinct melodic line that functions independently of the harmony
- Music: Bass work
- Meredith Willson1 song
- Born May 18, 1902 · Mason City, Iowa. Composer of The Music Man – the 1957 Broadway musical that gave the Beatles "Till There Was You" via Peggy Lee's 1961 cover. McCartney's ten…
- People: Songwriter
- Merseybeat29 songs
- Liverpool guitar-band style of the early 1960s – the Beatles' own milieu.
- Music: Music genre
- Michael Barnes2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Tuba(1)
- Mick Jagger6 songs
- Lead singer and co-founder of the Rolling Stones, the defining frontman of 1960s British rock.
- People: Guest musician(3)People: Backing vocals(2)People: Sound effects(1)
- Mike Leander1 song
- English arranger, composer, and record producer active across 1960s British pop.
- People: Orchestral scoring
- Mike McGear2 songs
- Paul McCartney's younger brother and a member of the comedy-and-music trio the Scaffold.
- People: Beatles team(1)People: Backing vocals(1)
- Mike Pinder2 songs
- Keyboard player and founding member of the Moody Blues.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Guest musician(1)
- Mike Redway4 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Mike Stoller1 song
- Born March 13, 1933 · Belle Harbor, New York. Half of the Leiber and Stoller team. With Jerry Leiber he wrote "Kansas City" – a Beatles For Sale medley track – alongside dozens o…
- People: Songwriter
- Mike Valerio2 songs
- American session bassist and member of the LA studio scene.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Double bass(1)
- Mike Vickers5 songs
- British musician (b. 1940), founding member of Manfred Mann who later became a leading film and TV composer.
- People: Assistant engineer(4)People: Conductor(1)
- Mike Winfield3 songs
- Cor anglais player credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Cor anglais(1)People: Oboe(1)People: Session musician(1)
- min(maj7)6 songs
- Minor triad with major 7th. A dark, sophisticated sound. E.g. Am(#7), CmM7.
- Music: Chord type
- Minimal harmony35 songs
- The song's harmony remains essentially on a single chord throughout.
- Music: Composition
- Minimal lyrics17 songs
- Very few unique words – the song relies on repetition, melody, and vocal texture over lyrical content
- Text: Vocabulary
- Missing Beatle30 songs
- One of the four Beatles is entirely absent from this recording
- People: Unique personnel
- Mixolydian48 songs
- Major with flat 7th – bluesy, rock feel (Norwegian Wood, A Hard Day's Night)
- Music: Mode
- Modal mixture106 songs
- Blending elements from multiple modes or borrowing from the parallel key
- Music: Harmony
- Money31 songs
- Currency, wealth, or financial transactions as subject.
- Text: Motif(20)Text: Recurring words(11)
- Mono172 songs
- Song was officially released in a mono mix. Most Beatles recordings from 1962–1968 had a dedicated mono mix (the primary mix until 1968). Tag regardless of whether a stereo mix al…
- Info: Release mix
- Monty Montgomery2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trumpet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Moog synthesizer solo1 song
- An instrumental passage with the Moog synthesizer as the lead voice.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Morris Miller2 songs
- British French horn player active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: French horn(1)
- Mosaic rhyme2 songs
- Rhyme between a single word and a multi-word phrase (jumble/come tumble).
- Text: Rhyme type
- Mother14 songs
- The song addresses or evokes a maternal figure – tender, complicated, or absent
- Text: Motif(8)Text: Recurring words(6)
- Motown3 songs
- Original released on Berry Gordy's Detroit Motown label or written by its in-house writers.
- Info: Cover origin
- Multi-day100 songs
- Recorded across more than one date, within roughly four months.
- Studio: Session duration
- Multi-month21 songs
- A long-gestation production: recorded across a span of about two months or more.
- Studio: Session duration
- Multi-syllabic rhyme22 songs
- Rhyme spanning multiple stressed syllables across both line-ends.
- Text: Rhyme type
- Music34 songs
- Songs, instruments, or the act of making music as subject within the lyric.
- Text: Motif(26)Text: Recurring words(8)
- Music hall14 songs
- British pub entertainment tradition – theatrical, comedic, and crowd-pleasing in the Victorian/Edwardian style
- Music: Music genre
- Music hall influence27 songs
- British music-hall tradition – vaudeville sentimentality, comic novelty.
- Text: Influence
- Musique concrète influence2 songs
- Tape-music tradition of Pierre Schaeffer – recorded sounds as composition.
- Text: Influence
- my [WORD] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
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- N. Fawcett2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Bassoon(1)
- Nature47 songs
- Imagery drawn from natural landscapes, seasons, weather, plants, or the natural world
- Text: Motif
- Natwar Soni2 songs
- Indian tabla player active in Londons Asian Music Circle in the 1960s.
- People: Tabla(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Negation in title16 songs
- The title turns on a negation: no, not, never, or a contracted don't, won't or can't.
- Text: Title
- Neil Aspinall12 songs
- Road manager from 1961 and later head of Apple Corps until 2007; long-time Beatles insider.
- People: Beatles team(6)People: Backing vocals(2)People: Güiro(1)People: Percussion(1)People: Harmonica(1)People: Tamboura(1)
- Neill Sanders6 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(3)People: French horn(3)
- Neve 8078 console2 songs
- The analogue desk at McCartney's Hog Hill Mill studio, where the reunion singles were mixed.
- Studio: Equipment
- Nicky Hopkins2 songs
- British session pianist whose credits span the Rolling Stones, the Who, and most of his era's major British rock acts.
- People: Guest musician(1)People: Electric piano(1)
- NME Award3 songs
- A reader-voted award from the New Musical Express, then Britain's biggest-selling music paper.
- Info: Cultural impact
- no [NOUN] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- No bass guitar18 songs
- No bass guitar on the recording. A bass line may still be there, played by a cello, a piano left hand or a guitar's low strings.
- Music: Bass work
- No Beatles playing4 songs
- None of the four Beatles play instruments on this track – entirely performed by outside session musicians
- People: Unique personnel
- No chorus55 songs
- Music: Sections
- No dominant22 songs
- The song never sounds the V chord (the dominant) of its home key.
- Music: Composition
- No drums16 songs
- The track features no conventional drum kit – percussion is absent, minimal, or replaced entirely
- Music: Drum work
- No subdominant24 songs
- The song never sounds the IV chord (the subdominant) of its home key.
- Music: Composition
- No verse-chorus50 songs
- The song avoids the conventional verse-chorus organization entirely
- Music: Song form
- Noise reduction3 songs
- Removing hum, hiss and clicks from a recording so it can carry a new production.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Noises14 songs
- Non-musical sounds, effects, or found objects used as intentional sonic elements
- Music: Arrangement
- Non-Beatles reference10 songs
- The lyrics quote or nod to a song by another artist.
- Text: Lyrical device
- Non-traditional percussion2 songs
- An everyday object or non-instrument used percussively; the specific object is in the note.
- Music: Arrangement
- Nonsense words26 songs
- Invented syllables or meaningless words used for rhythm or texture – ob-la-di, na-na-na, goo goo g'joob
- Text: Vocabulary
- Norman Jones4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Cello(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Norman Lederman4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Violin(2)
- Norman Smith104 songs
- The Beatles' EMI engineer through Rubber Soul, later a producer.
- People: Recording engineer(103)People: Percussion(1)
- Nostalgia40 songs
- The song looks back longingly at the past, childhood, or lost experiences
- Text: Motif
- Novelty song8 songs
- A light-hearted, comedic, or deliberately silly track not intended to be taken seriously
- Music: Music genre
- Number one UK21 songs
- Beatles songs that reached number one on a major UK chart.
- Info: Chart performance
- Number one US22 songs
- Beatles songs that reached number one on a major US chart.
- Info: Chart performance
- Nursery rhyme8 songs
- Childlike sing-song imagery or direct allusion to nursery-rhyme texts.
- Text: Motif
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- Observational30 songs
- The singer as detached observer, describing scenes, people, or events without personal involvement
- Text: Narrative
- Olympic custom console2 songs
- The custom-built mixing console at Olympic Sound Studios.
- Studio: Equipment
- Olympic Sound Studios6 songs
- Independent London studio used by the Beatles in 1967-1969.
- Studio: Recording location
- one [WORD] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]3 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- one two three four five six seven2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- Only basic triads31 songs
- The song's harmony uses only plain major and minor triads, no extensions.
- Music: Composition
- Only one Beatle8 songs
- Only a single Beatle performed on the track – the remainder are session musicians
- People: Unique personnel
- Ooh vocals54 songs
- The group 'oooh!' exclamation – a signature gesture of the early Merseybeat sound
- Music: Vocal work
- Orchestral16 songs
- Beatles songs scored for a full or partial orchestra – a string section combined with brass and/or woodwind, or an explicit orchestral overdub.
- Music: Instrument group
- Organ48 songs
- Hammond or pipe organ adding body, sustain, and churchy or psychedelic texture
- Music: Arrangement
- Other percussion52 songs
- Percussion is present on the track that the sources do not name; the note carries what is known.
- Music: Arrangement
- Outside orchestrator7 songs
- An external arranger beyond George Martin wrote the string or brass parts
- People: Unique personnel
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- P. Goody2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Flute(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Parallel harmony70 songs
- Chords moving in parallel motion, maintaining same voicing shape
- Music: Harmony
- Parlophone140 songs
- The EMI subsidiary label that released all UK Beatles records from 1962 through 1968 – George Martin's home label before Apple.
- Info: Label
- Pat Whitmore4 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Pathé Marconi Studios3 songs
- EMI's Paris studios – the band's only non-EMI-London EMI-era session, January 1964.
- Studio: Recording location
- Patrick Halling2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Pattie Boyd8 songs
- British model and George Harrison's wife from 1966 to 1977; later Eric Clapton's wife and the subject of 'Something' and 'Layla'.
- People: Backing vocals(3)People: Beatles team(3)People: Handclaps(1)People: Sound effects(1)
- Paul Harvey3 songs
- British woodwind player active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Bass clarinet(1)People: Session musician(1)People: Clarinet(1)
- Paul is dead8 songs
- Songs linked to the 'Paul is dead' hoax through supposed hidden clues.
- Info: Song family
- Paul McCartney845 songs
- Co-founder, bassist, and vocalist. McCartney's melodic gift and musical versatility drove much of the band's pop appeal, from 'Yesterday' to the Abbey Road medley.
- People: Bass guitar(191)People: Backing vocals(154)People: Lead singer(107)People: Songwriter(89)People: Piano(65)People: Guitar(44)People: Handclaps(37)People: Electric guitar(23)People: Acoustic guitar(23)People: Lead guitar(14)People: Percussion(9)People: Organ(8)People: Drums(7)People: Electric piano(7)People: Producer(6)People: Spoken word(5)People: Tambourine(4)People: Maracas(4)People: Sound effects(4)People: Timpani(3)People: Bongos(3)People: Harpsichord(3)People: Synthesizer(3)People: Rhythm guitar(3)People: Harmonium(2)People: Orchestral scoring(2)People: Recorder(2)People: Tape loops(2)People: Clavichord(2)People: Double bass(2)People: Classical guitar(1)People: Chimes(1)People: French horn(1)People: Conductor(1)People: Flugelhorn(1)People: Foot stomps(1)People: Mellotron(1)People: Claves(1)People: Hand bell(1)People: Celesta(1)People: Finger snaps(1)People: Cowbell(1)People: Congas(1)People: Trumpet(1)People: Tamboura(1)People: Chocalho(1)People: Penny whistle(1)
- Paul Scherman2 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Violin(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Pedal point16 songs
- A sustained or repeated bass note while harmonies above it continue to change
- Music: Harmony
- Peggie Allen2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Penny whistle1 song
- A simple six-hole metal fipple flute (tin whistle) with a bright, piercing tone.
- Music: Arrangement
- Perfect rhyme191 songs
- Endings sharing identical stressed-vowel-plus-consonant sounds (cat/hat).
- Text: Rhyme type
- Persona18 songs
- Sung in the voice of a fictional or imagined narrator rather than the songwriter.
- Text: Narrative
- Personification13 songs
- Non-human things given human qualities – the sun smiles, loneliness talks
- Text: Lyrical device
- Pete Shotton2 songs
- John Lennon's closest childhood friend and a founding Quarryman, later manager of the Apple Boutique.
- People: Beatles team(1)People: Handclaps(1)
- Peter Beavan2 songs
- British cellist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Cello(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Peter Coe2 songs
- British jazz saxophonist active on the London session scene in the 1960s.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Tenor saxophone(1)
- Peter Halling2 songs
- British cellist active in 1960s London orchestral and session work.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Cello(1)
- Peter Willison2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Cello(1)
- Phil Goody3 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Flute(1)People: Piccolo(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Phil McDonald61 songs
- British balance engineer active at EMI's Abbey Road and other London studios through the 1960s and 1970s.
- People: Assistant engineer(39)People: Recording engineer(22)
- Phil Medley1 song
- Born December 15, 1916 · Baltimore. Co-author of "Twist and Shout" with Bert Berns (Bert Russell). Originally written for the Top Notes and made famous by the Isley Brothers, the…
- People: Songwriter
- Phil Spector17 songs
- Pioneering and controversial American record producer famous for the dense 'Wall of Sound' technique he developed on 1960s pop singles.
- People: Producer(13)People: Orchestral scoring(3)People: Conductor(1)
- Philip Guard3 songs
- British actor active in mid-20th-century radio and theatre.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)People: Spoken word(1)
- Philosophical30 songs
- Lyrics exploring abstract questions about existence, consciousness, or the nature of reality
- Text: Motif
- Piano93 songs
- Acoustic upright or grand piano in a prominent, defining role
- Music: Arrangement(91)Text: Recurring words(2)
- Piano song12 songs
- Piano is the primary accompanying instrument rather than electric guitar
- Info: Song family
- Piccolo trumpet2 songs
- A small, high-pitched trumpet – played by David Mason on 'Penny Lane'
- Music: Arrangement
- Piccolo trumpet solo1 song
- An instrumental passage featuring piccolo trumpet as the lead voice.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Place names18 songs
- Specific real locations – streets, cities, neighborhoods, or landmarks – are named in the lyrics
- Text: Motif
- Poetic lyrics21 songs
- Strong literary craftsmanship – precise imagery, extended metaphor, and careful word choice
- Text: Vocabulary
- Political8 songs
- Lyrics engaging directly with political power, protest, war, or social ideology
- Text: Motif
- Post-Beatles3 songs
- Songs released after the Beatles' breakup – the three reunion singles: Free as a Bird (1995), Real Love (1996), Now and Then (2023). All built on unfinished Lennon cassette demos,…
- Info: Year
- Premier Mahogany Duroplastic16 songs
- Ringo Starr's pre-Ludwig Premier kit in mahogany Duroplastic finish, used on the earliest EMI sessions.
- Studio: Equipment
- Producer plays66 songs
- A track on which a credited producer also performed – exceeding the producer's typical role.
- People: Unique personnel
- Progressive rock2 songs
- Rock with extended forms, complex meters, and conceptual scope.
- Music: Music genre
- Prominent drum fills9 songs
- The drum fills are prominent enough to shape how the song moves between its sections.
- Music: Drum work
- Promotional video18 songs
- Issued with a promotional film clip distributed to broadcasters.
- Info: Cultural impact
- Proto-metal2 songs
- Heavy, distorted guitar tones and aggressive dynamics that anticipate the hard rock and heavy metal genres
- Music: Music genre
- Psychedelia influence14 songs
- Psychedelic aesthetic – exotic instruments, studio effects, drug-imagery.
- Music: Influence
- Psychedelic41 songs
- Characterized by surreal lyrics, distorted sounds, studio experimentation, and mind-expanding sonic ambition
- Music: Music genre
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- R&B41 songs
- Rooted in American rhythm and blues – driving rhythm section, soulful vocal delivery, and blues inflections
- Music: Music genre(26)Info: Cover origin(15)
- Raga rock7 songs
- Rock incorporating Indian classical scales, drones, and instruments like sitar and tabla.
- Music: Music genre
- Ragtime2 songs
- Syncopated early-20th-century piano style over a steady march-like bass.
- Music: Music genre
- Rain25 songs
- Precipitation as central imagery, often emotional weather.
- Text: Motif(14)Text: Recurring words(11)
- Ralph Elman4 songs
- British violinist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Violin(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Ray Swinfield3 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Piccolo(1)People: Flute(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Ray Thomas4 songs
- Flautist, harmonica player and founding singer of the Moody Blues.
- People: Harmonica(1)People: Session musician(1)People: Guest musician(1)People: Backing vocals(1)
- Raymond Brown2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trombone(1)
- Raymond Newman2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Clarinet(1)
- Raymond Premru2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trombone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Real people27 songs
- Named real individuals appear as characters or subjects within the lyrics
- Text: Motif
- Recurring line194 songs
- Text: Repetition
- Recurring verse103 songs
- Text: Repetition
- Reduction mix81 songs
- Mixing a recording down to fewer tracks to free space on the tape machine.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Referenced in song8 songs
- This song is referenced by name or lyric in another Beatles song (e.g. The Fool on the Hill mentioned in Glass Onion, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da mentioned in Savoy Truffle). Mirror tag of…
- Info: Song family
- Reginald Kilbey8 songs
- British cellist and arranger; a longtime London session player.
- People: Cello(4)People: Session musician(4)
- Reunion recording3 songs
- Post-breakup recording where surviving Beatles built new songs on top of Lennon demos. Covers Free as a Bird (1995), Real Love (1996), and Now and Then (2023).
- Info: Recording type
- Reunion singles3 songs
- Pseudo-album covering the three post-breakup Beatles songs: Free as a Bird (1995), Real Love (1996), and Now and Then (2023). All three began as unfinished Lennon cassette demos,…
- Info: Album
- Reverse9 songs
- Audio played or recorded in reverse for psychedelic or abstract effects
- Studio: Studio technique
- Revived recording6 songs
- Shelved and resumed after a long gap (e.g. a song revived years later, or an old demo finished by the surviving Beatles).
- Info: Recording type
- Revolver (US)11 songs
- Capitol release, August 1966. 11 tracks – 3 songs ('I'm Only Sleeping', 'And Your Bird Can Sing', 'Doctor Robert') had already been placed on Yesterday and Today.
- Info: US release
- Rex Morris6 songs
- British saxophonist active in 1960s London session work.
- People: Session musician(3)People: Tenor saxophone(1)People: Saxophone(1)People: Trombone(1)
- Rhetorical question11 songs
- A question asked for effect rather than for an answer, where the asking itself carries the point.
- Text: Lyrical device
- RIAA Gold single17 songs
- Certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for a million copies of the single sold.
- Info: Chart performance
- Ric Marlow1 song
- Born March 31, 1925 · The Bronx, New York. American actor and lyricist who co-wrote the words to "A Taste of Honey" with composer Bobby Scott. Originally written for a 1960 Broad…
- People: Songwriter
- Rich harmony29 songs
- Multiple simultaneous vocal harmonies forming a dense, lush harmonic texture
- Music: Composition
- Rich vocabulary9 songs
- Lyric uses a wide range of distinct words relative to total length.
- Text: Vocabulary
- Richard Drapkin1 song
- American songwriter, also credited as Ricky Dee or Richard B. Drapkin. Wrote "Devil in His Heart" – a 1962 Donays single the Beatles covered as "Devil in Her Heart" on With The B…
- People: Songwriter
- Richard Hewson3 songs
- British arranger and composer (1943-2022); orchestrator and conductor active across British pop.
- People: Orchestral scoring(2)People: Conductor(1)
- Richard Langham44 songs
- EMI engineer on the Beatles' early Abbey Road sessions.
- People: Assistant engineer
- Richard Lush47 songs
- EMI balance and tape engineer from 1966, on Sgt. Pepper and the 1967 to 1969 sessions.
- People: Assistant engineer(46)People: Recording engineer(1)
- Richard Taylor2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Flute(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Rickenbacker 32544 songs
- Lennon's three-quarter-scale solid-body electric guitar of the early 60s.
- Studio: Equipment
- Rickenbacker 325/121 song
- The twelve-string version of Lennon's Rickenbacker, a rarity on record.
- Studio: Equipment
- Rickenbacker 360/1213 songs
- Twelve-string semi-hollow electric guitar central to A Hard Day's Night.
- Studio: Equipment
- Rickenbacker 4001S86 songs
- McCartney's Rickenbacker 4001S bass – its bright, punchy, trebly tone defines the mid-period Beatles sound
- Studio: Equipment
- Rickenbacker 4252 songs
- Solid-body single-pickup electric guitar – George Harrison's first Rickenbacker.
- Studio: Equipment
- Rij Ram Desad2 songs
- Harmonium player credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Harmonium(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Ring composition6 songs
- A section opens and closes on the same word or phrase, returning to where it began.
- Text: Lyrical device
- Ringo Starr434 songs
- Ringo Starr contributing assorted noises and sound effects.
- People: Drums(191)People: Tambourine(64)People: Handclaps(32)People: Percussion(28)People: Maracas(28)People: Backing vocals(21)People: Lead singer(12)People: Bongos(11)People: Cowbell(8)People: Songwriter(6)People: Congas(4)People: Timpani(3)People: Producer(3)People: Hand bell(2)People: Chimes(2)People: Finger cymbals(2)People: Sound effects(2)People: Piano(2)People: Claves(2)People: Tape loops(2)People: Harmonica(1)People: Chocalho(1)People: Sleigh bells(1)People: Noises(1)People: Finger snaps(1)People: Wind machine(1)People: Castanets(1)People: Tack piano(1)People: Organ(1)
- Ringoism3 songs
- Title coined from a Ringo Starr malapropism or spontaneous invented phrase (e.g. 'A Hard Day's Night')
- Text: Title
- Robert Bateman1 song
- Born September 22, 1937 · Detroit. Songwriter and producer at early Motown, part of the original "Brianbert" team with Brian Holland. Co-wrote "Please Mr. Postman" with the rest…
- People: Songwriter
- Robert Blackwell1 song
- Born May 23, 1918 · Seattle. Producer and bandleader at Specialty Records, where he produced Little Richard's biggest hits. Co-wrote "Long Tall Sally" with Little Richard and Eno…
- People: Songwriter
- Robert Burns2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Clarinet(1)
- Rock172 songs
- Guitar-driven popular music with electric instrumentation and a backbeat.
- Music: Music genre(166)Text: Recurring words(6)
- Rock and roll63 songs
- Mid-1950s American style – backbeat, 12-bar blues, and verse-chorus-verse.
- Music: Music genre(48)Info: Cover origin(11)Text: Recurring words(4)
- Rockabilly8 songs
- 1950s fusion of country and R&B – slapback bass, electric guitar twang.
- Music: Music genre(7)Info: Cover origin(1)
- Roger Lord2 songs
- Principal oboist of the London Symphony Orchestra.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Oboe(1)
- Role swap76 songs
- At least one Beatle plays an instrument other than their usual one.
- People: Unique personnel
- Ronald Chamberlain2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Saxophone(1)
- Ronald Ross2 songs
- Session instrumentalist working in London studios in the 1960s.
- People: Baritone saxophone(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Ronald Thomas4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Violin(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Ronnie Hughes2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trumpet(1)
- Ronnie Ross2 songs
- English jazz baritone saxophonist who earlier taught the young David Bowie.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Baritone saxophone(1)
- Ronnie Scott4 songs
- English jazz tenor saxophonist and co-founder of London's famous Ronnie Scott's jazz club.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Alto flute(1)People: Tenor saxophone(1)
- Rooftop concert5 songs
- Performed at the Beatles' rooftop concert atop Apple, 30 January 1969.
- Info: Song family
- Roy Copestake2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trumpet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Roy Lee Johnson1 song
- American R&B singer and songwriter. Wrote "Mr. Moonlight", which the Beatles covered on Beatles For Sale with Lennon's keening lead vocal. Originally a B-side by Dr. Feelgood and…
- People: Songwriter
- Rubber Soul (US)13 songs
- Capitol release, December 1965. Different tracklist from UK: dropped 'Drive My Car', 'Nowhere Man', 'What Goes On', 'If I Needed Someone'; added 'I've Just Seen a Face' and 'It's…
- Info: US release
S
- S.R. Kenkare2 songs
- Indian classical musician and player of the shehnai, a double-reed wind instrument.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Shehnai(1)
- Santur1 song
- Music: Arrangement
- Saxophone10 songs
- Saxophone providing R&B flavor, jazz texture, or raw rock and roll color
- Music: Arrangement
- Saxophone solo1 song
- An instrumental passage featuring saxophone as the lead voice.
- Music: Solo / Riff
- Scat singing14 songs
- Improvised wordless syllabic singing, often associated with jazz.
- Music: Vocal work
- Screen Gems-Columbia Music1 song
- Brill Building publishing arm of Columbia / Screen Gems.
- Info: Publisher
- Sectional modulation7 songs
- A whole section replayed in a new key – the same passage transposed. Distinct from a general Key change.
- Music: Composition
- Self reflection76 songs
- The songwriter reflects on their own identity, life, or creative process
- Text: Motif
- Sex13 songs
- The song contains overt or coded sexual language, double entendres, or erotic imagery
- Text: Motif
- Shaker1 song
- Handheld shaker giving a continuous grain of rhythm rather than a struck accent.
- Music: Arrangement
- Shared chords27 songs
- Two or more sections of the song are built on the same chord vocabulary; the note names which.
- Music: Composition
- she [VERB] me [WORD] the [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- she [VERB] you [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- Sheila Bromberg2 songs
- British harpist and a longtime London orchestral and session player.
- People: Harp(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Shirelles influence1 song
- Early-1960s girl group whose songs the Beatles covered and echoed.
- Music: Influence
- Shouted vocals12 songs
- Lead vocal delivered with shouting force rather than sustained singing.
- Music: Vocal work
- Sidney Sax10 songs
- British violinist and noted orchestral leader who also worked as a session contractor, booking and leading string players for countless London recording dates.
- People: Session musician(5)People: Violin(5)
- Single51 songs
- Released as a standalone single not originally tied to any studio album
- Info: Release type
- Single day100 songs
- Recorded on a single date - basic track and any overdubs all done in one day.
- Studio: Session duration(98)Text: Recurring words(2)
- Sitar6 songs
- North Indian plucked string instrument – introduced to Western pop by George Harrison on 'Norwegian Wood'
- Music: Arrangement
- Skiffle3 songs
- The British DIY folk-jazz hybrid that first inspired teenage Lennon and McCartney before the Beatles formed
- Music: Music genre
- Skiffle influence2 songs
- Late-1950s UK folk-blues fad – washboard, tea-chest bass, acoustic guitar.
- Music: Influence
- Slide guitar6 songs
- Guitar played with a metal or glass slide giving a singing, gliding tone
- Music: Guitar work
- Slow46 songs
- Slow Beatles songs, in the 60 to 89 beats-per-minute range.
- Music: Tempo(44)Text: Recurring words(2)
- Smokey Robinson1 song
- Born February 19, 1940 · Detroit. Songwriter, singer, and Motown vice president – one of the most admired lyricists of his generation. Wrote "You Really Got a Hold on Me", which…
- People: Songwriter
- Smoking6 songs
- Cigarettes, tobacco and the act of smoking, including its coded and metaphorical uses.
- Text: Motif
- Social commentary29 songs
- Songs critiquing society, class structures, cultural norms, or contemporary life
- Text: Motif
- Something New10 songs
- Capitol compilation released July 1964. Remaining A Hard Day's Night tracks plus Long Tall Sally EP tracks.
- Info: US release
- Song for George6 songs
- Songs written by bandmates or covers that George sang lead vocal on, chosen specifically as vehicles for George's voice. Excludes songs George wrote.
- People: Unique personnel
- Song for Ringo9 songs
- Songs written by bandmates or covers that Ringo sang lead vocal on, chosen specifically as vehicles for Ringo's voice. Excludes songs Ringo wrote.
- People: Unique personnel
- Song on album185 songs
- An album-only track that was never released as a commercial single
- Info: Release type
- Song on Anthology102 songs
- Song appears on one or more of the Anthology discs (1995-1996 for volumes 1-3; November 2025 for volume 4). Alternate takes, demos, live recordings, outtakes, and new Jeff Lynne 2…
- Info: Release type
- Song on compilation75 songs
- Song appears on an official non-catalog compilation – Red Album (1973), Blue Album (1973), 1 (2000), Red/Blue 2023 expansion, etc. Note carries the specific compilation name and y…
- Info: Release type
- Song on Giles Martin remix86 songs
- Song was remixed by Giles Martin for one of the deluxe anniversary editions (Sgt. Pepper 2017, White Album 2018, Abbey Road 2019, Let It Be 2021, Revolver 2022, Red/Blue 2023).
- Info: Release type
- Song on Let It Be... Naked11 songs
- Song appears on Let It Be... Naked (2003), McCartney's stripped-down re-edit of the Let It Be album without Phil Spector's overdubs.
- Info: Release type
- Song on Love39 songs
- Song appears on the Love album (2006) – the Cirque du Soleil soundtrack of mashups and remixes by Giles and George Martin.
- Info: Release type
- Soul12 songs
- Black American music combining gospel, R&B, and emotional vocal delivery.
- Music: Music genre(7)Text: Recurring words(5)
- Sound37 songs
- Noise, music, or auditory phenomena described in the lyric.
- Text: Motif(29)Text: Recurring words(8)
- Sound Techniques console7 songs
- The Sound Techniques-built mixing console at Trident Studios.
- Studio: Equipment
- Sounds Incorporated2 songs
- British instrumental band signed to Brian Epsteins NEMS Enterprises in the 1960s.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Brass(1)
- Special guest18 songs
- A notable musician outside the core Beatles lineup made a significant performing contribution
- People: Unique personnel
- Spiritual19 songs
- Lyrics exploring spiritual, religious, or transcendent themes and experiences
- Text: Motif
- Spoken melody4 songs
- The vocal is delivered as speech or near-speech rather than a sung melodic line.
- Music: Vocal work
- Stan Reynolds2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trumpet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Stan Roderick2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trumpet(1)
- Stanley Reynolds2 songs
- Session instrumentalist working in London studios in the 1960s.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trumpet(1)
- Stanley Roderick2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trumpet(1)
- Stanley Woods2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trumpet(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Steinway Grand3 songs
- A full-size Steinway concert grand piano, used at EMI for the more formal piano parts.
- Studio: Equipment
- Steinway Vertegrand32 songs
- Abbey Road's upright Steinway piano (the 'Mrs Mills' piano).
- Studio: Equipment
- Stephen Shingles4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Viola(2)
- Stepwise bass line94 songs
- Three or more consecutive chords where the bass note moves by step (semitone or whole tone). Creates smooth, Bach-style voice leading.
- Music: Bass work
- Stereo200 songs
- Song was officially released in a stereo mix. From 1969 onward (Abbey Road, Let It Be) stereo was the primary mix; most earlier songs also received stereo mixes, sometimes years a…
- Info: Release mix
- Storytelling28 songs
- Lyrics structured as a narrative with characters, setting, and a clear arc
- Text: Motif
- Stream of consciousness13 songs
- Free-associative flow of images and thoughts without conventional narrative logic
- Text: Narrative
- Street21 songs
- Roads, walking, or urban thoroughfares as central imagery.
- Text: Motif(16)Text: Recurring words(5)
- String28 songs
- Beatles songs with a scored string section (violins, violas, cellos, double bass) – from the Yesterday quartet to full orchestral strings.
- Music: Instrument group
- String bending4 songs
- Bending a guitar string sideways to raise its pitch expressively.
- Music: Guitar work
- Studer J37 4-track recorder78 songs
- Four-track tape machine – the Beatles' standard recording machine 1965-68.
- Studio: Equipment
- Sunshine33 songs
- Sun, warmth, or bright daylight as central imagery.
- Text: Motif(30)Text: Recurring words(3)
- Surrealism19 songs
- Dreamlike, irrational, or subconscious imagery that resists literal interpretation
- Text: Motif
- Swan3 songs
- Philadelphia label that licensed She Loves You for US release in Sep 1963 after Capitol passed. Reissued it to a #1 hit after Beatlemania broke in early 1964.
- Info: Label
- Sylvia King2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
T
- T. Moore2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trombone(1)
- Tabla3 songs
- North Indian hand drums used alongside sitar in Indian-influenced tracks
- Music: Arrangement
- Tack piano5 songs
- Upright piano with tacks set in the hammers for a tinny honky-tonk sound.
- Music: Arrangement
- Tape echo8 songs
- Echo effect generated by re-routing tape past a playback head at a delayed position.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Tape loops11 songs
- Pre-recorded tape loops used as a sound source within the arrangement.
- Music: Arrangement
- Tape splicing41 songs
- Physically cutting and rejoining magnetic tape to assemble or edit a recording.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Ted Barker2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Trombone(1)
- Telefunken M10 4-track recorder42 songs
- Telefunken's four-track studio tape recorder, used at Abbey Road in the mid-1960s.
- Studio: Equipment
- tell you is brother you have to wait2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- Tenor flute1 song
- A tenor flute (a lower member of the flute family) used in a track's arrangement.
- Music: Arrangement
- Terence Weil2 songs
- Session cellist heard on 'Eleanor Rigby'.
- People: Cello(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Terry Condon3 songs
- EMI Studios employee in the 1960s, commonly identified as a doorman at Abbey Road.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Sound effects(1)People: Beatles team(1)
- Terry Doran2 songs
- Beatles aide; partner with Brian Epstein in the Brydor Cars dealership and later head of Apple Music.
- People: Maracas(1)People: Beatles team(1)
- that you've [VERB] [WORD] [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- the [NOUN] you [VERB] to [VERB]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- The Beatles' Second Album11 songs
- Capitol compilation released April 1964. Leftover With The Beatles tracks plus singles and EP tracks not on Meet The Beatles!
- Info: US release
- The Early Beatles12 songs
- Capitol reissue of Vee-Jay material, released March 1965. Same content as Introducing The Beatles under the Capitol banner.
- Info: US release
- The Mike Sammes Singers6 songs
- Professional session vocal ensemble led by Mike Sammes.
- People: Backing vocals(2)People: Session musician(2)People: Choir(2)
- Third person37 songs
- About 'he/she/they' – the singer as an outside observer telling someone else's story
- Text: Narrative
- Three-part harmony38 songs
- Three sung lines moving together in harmonized intervals.
- Music: Vocal work
- Time164 songs
- Time as a theme in the lyric: its passing, memory, waiting, or aging.
- Text: Motif(99)Text: Recurring words(65)
- Time reference24 songs
- A reference to a specific time, hour, day, or date in the lyric (e.g. 'five o'clock', 'Wednesday morning').
- Text: Motif
- Time signature change22 songs
- The song moves between two or more time signatures.
- Music: Time signature
- Title in chorus27 songs
- Text: Title
- Title in outro3 songs
- Text: Title
- Title in refrain11 songs
- Text: Title
- Title not in lyrics16 songs
- The song's title does not appear anywhere within its own lyrics
- Text: Title
- to [VERB] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]3 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- to [VERB] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- Tollie4 songs
- Vee-Jay subsidiary label that issued the US single of Twist and Shout / There's a Place (1964) during the Beatlemania rush.
- Info: Label
- Tony Fisher4 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Trumpet(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Tony Gilbert4 songs
- Session violinist at EMI Studios who led the string quartet on Yesterday – the first Beatles recording to use strings.
- People: Session musician(2)People: Violin(2)
- Tony Randall2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: French horn(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Tony Tunstall4 songs
- French horn player credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: French horn(2)People: Session musician(2)
- Top 40 UK2 songs
- Beatles songs that reached the top forty of a major UK chart.
- Info: Chart performance
- Top 40 US14 songs
- Beatles songs that reached the top forty of a major US chart.
- Info: Chart performance
- Traditional1 song
- A traditional or public-domain song with no single credited author, arranged by the Beatles.
- People: Songwriter
- Travel23 songs
- The song features travel, journeys, movement, or geographical displacement as a central element
- Text: Motif
- Tremolo4 songs
- Amplifier effect that modulates volume in a steady pulsing pattern.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Trevor Williams2 songs
- Session musician credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Session musician(1)People: Violin(1)
- Trident Studios6 songs
- Soho-based eight-track studio used for several 1968-1969 sessions.
- Studio: Recording location
- Tristan Fry3 songs
- British classical percussionist and session player.
- People: Percussion(1)People: Timpani(1)People: Session musician(1)
- True Lennon-McCartney18 songs
- A genuinely co-written song where both Lennon and McCartney contributed substantially to both music and lyrics
- People: Unique personnel
- Trumpet19 songs
- Solo or ensemble trumpet – most memorably used on 'Penny Lane' with the piccolo trumpet
- Music: Arrangement
- Twin lead vocals9 songs
- Two singers carry two DIFFERENT lead lines at the same time, neither one acting as a backing vocal to the other.
- Music: Vocal work
- Twin songs21 songs
- Two Beatles songs that mirror or answer each other (theme, chords, title, or role); the note names each song's twin.
- Info: Song family
- Two versions7 songs
- The song has two officially released versions with meaningful differences in arrangement or performance
- Info: Recording type
U
- Uncredited96 songs
- Unnamed session musician(s) played the baritone saxophone on this recording.
- People: Strings(9)People: Cello(7)People: Viola(6)People: Violin(6)People: Double bass(6)People: French horn(5)People: Trumpet(5)People: Brass(5)People: Trombone(5)People: Sound effects(5)People: Backing vocals(4)People: Tambourine(3)People: Bass trombone(3)People: Harp(2)People: Clarinet(2)People: Orchestra(2)People: Flute(2)People: Handclaps(2)People: Cowbell(2)People: Session musician(2)People: Timpani(1)People: Mellotron(1)People: Choir(1)People: Claves(1)People: Glockenspiel(1)People: Baritone saxophone(1)People: Tenor saxophone(1)People: Alto flute(1)People: Piccolo(1)People: Vibraphone(1)People: Recording engineer(1)People: Piano(1)People: Saxophone(1)
- Unique pre-chorus3 songs
- A one-off pre-chorus distinct from the rest of the song.
- Music: Section traits
- Unique writing credit4 songs
- The song carries an unusual or unexpected writing attribution outside the standard Lennon-McCartney, Harrison, or Starkey credits
- People: Unique personnel
- United Artists8 songs
- Released the US soundtrack version of A Hard Day's Night (1964) – a very different album from the UK Parlophone release, with orchestral George Martin tracks alongside the band's…
- Info: Label
V
- v13 songs
- Songs whose final chord is the v scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(11)Music: Ending chord(2)
- V147 songs
- Songs whose opening chord is the V scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(125)Music: Opening chord(12)Music: Ending chord(10)
- V–♭VI–♭VII–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → B♭ → C → D; B → C → D → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–♭vi°–vi2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Dadd4 → D♯dim → Em; F7 → F♯dim → Gm)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–♭VII–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → C/D → D; D7 → G → F → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–I–IV6 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → E♭ → E♭7/D → A♭; C7 → F → F7 → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–I–IV–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → E♭ → E♭7/D → A♭ → E♭; D → G → G7 → C → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–I–IV–iv–I–VI3 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. C7 → F → F7 → B♭ → B♭m6 → F/A → D7; G7 → C → C7 → F → Fm → C → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–I–IV–iv–I–VI–II2 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. G7 → C → C7 → F → Fm → C → A7 → D7; D7 → G → G7 → C → Cm → G → E7 → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–ii–iii2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → Em → F♯m; B7 → E → F♯m7 → G♯m7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–II–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → E7 → A7; Asus4 → D → E7 → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–iii–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D7 → G → Bm → C; D7 → G → Bm → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–iii–vi5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F7 → B♭ → Dm/A → Gm; E → A → C♯m → F♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–iii–vi–IV2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D7 → G → Bm → Em → C; B♭7 → E♭ → Gm → Cm → A♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–IV–♭VII4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B7 → E → A → D; E → A → D7 → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–IV–♭VII–♭III2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B7 → E → A → D → G; E7 → A7 → D7 → G7 → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–i–iv–♭VII–♭III2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E7 → Am → Dm9 → G7 → Csus4; G → Cm → Fm → B♭ → E♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–IV–I–IV6 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → G → D → G; D → G → C → G → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–IV–I–IV–I4 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → G → D → G → D; D → G → C → G → C → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–IV–I–IV–I–IV2 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → G → D → G → D → G; E7 → A → D/A → A → D/A → A → D/A)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–IV–I–V3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E7 → A → D → A → E; E7 → A → D → A → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–i–IV–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B → Em → A → Asus4; G♯7 → C♯m → F♯sus4 → F♯)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–IV–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. C7 → F7 → B♭ → C7 → F; A7 → D → G → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–V–I–II2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D7 → G → D7 → G → A7; A → D → Asus4 → D → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–V–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B7 → E7 → B7 → A7; B → E → B → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–vi–I–vi2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → Bm → D → Bm; G → C → Am → C → Am)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–vi–ii10 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C7 → F → Dm → Gm7; E7 → A → F♯m → Bm7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–VI–ii6 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → B7 → Em; C7 → F → D7 → Gm7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–VI–II3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B7 → E7 → C♯7 → F♯7; D7 → G → E7 → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–vi–II3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B → E → C♯m → F♯; G7 → C → Am7 → D7sus4)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–vi–iii6 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A7 → D → Bm → F♯m; D → G → Em → Bm)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–vi–IV12 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B♭ → E♭ → Cm → A♭; B7 → E → C♯m → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–vi–iv2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G7 → C → Am → Fm; E → A → F♯m → Dm)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–I–VII–♭VII2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D7 → G → F♯ → F; D → G → F♯7 → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–ii–V–I5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B7 → F♯m7 → B7 → E; A7 → Em → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–ii–V–I–vi2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B7 → F♯m7 → B7 → E → C♯m; A → Em → A → D → Bm)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–III–vi–ii2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C → A7 → Dm → Gm7; G → E7 → Am → Dm)
- Music: Chord degree
- v–iv–♭VI–i2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Bm → Am → C → Em; Bm → Am → Cmaj7 → Em)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–IV–I–II3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → F7 → C → D7; D7 → C7 → G → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–IV–I–IV–I3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D → C → G → C → G; E7 → D7 → A7 → D7 → A7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–IV–I–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E7 → D → A → E7 → A; D → C → G → D → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–IV–I–vi3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → F → C → Am; B → A → E → C♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–IV–II–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. E7 → D → B7 → E → A; B → A → F♯9 → B → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–IV–V–I–vi3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. B → A → B → E → C♯m; D7 → C → D → G → Em)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–IV–V–I–vi–IV2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. B → A → B → E → C♯m → A; D7 → C → D → G → Em → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–IV–V–IV–V–I5 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. A → G → A → G → A → D; D → C → D → C → D → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–IV–V–vi2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B7 → A → B → C♯m; G → F → G → Am)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–V–I–IV4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Dsus2 → D → G → C; C → C7 → F → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–V–I–IV–I–V–I2 songs
- 7-chord degree progression (e.g. C → C7 → F → B♭ → F → C7 → F; F → F7 → B♭ → E♭ → B♭ → F → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–V–V–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D → Dsus2 → D → G; A → Asus4 → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–vi–I–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C7 → Dm → F → B♭; E → F♯m → A7 → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–vi–ii–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. B → C♯m → F♯m → B7; D/F♯ → Em → Am → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–vi–ii–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A7 → Bm/F♯ → Em → A7 → D; D/F♯ → Em → Am → D7 → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–vi–III–vi2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → Am → E7 → Am; B → C♯m → G♯7 → C♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–vi–IV–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → Am → F → C; D → Em → C → G6)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–vi–IV–V–I4 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. D → Em → C → D → G; A → Bm → G → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- V–vi–IV–V–vi–IV–V–I2 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. B → C♯m → A → B → C♯m → A → B → E; B → C♯m → A → B → C♯m → A6 → B6 → E6)
- Music: Chord degree
- V+8 songs
- Chord on the V+ scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(6)Music: Ending chord(1)Music: Opening chord(1)
- V131 song
- Chord on the V13 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- V63 songs
- Chord on the V6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- v76 songs
- Chord on the v7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- V7♭91 song
- Chord on the V7♭9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- V7♯91 song
- Chord on the V7♯9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- V7sus45 songs
- Chord on the V7sus4 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- v92 songs
- Chord on the v9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- V93 songs
- Chord on the V9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Vadd41 song
- Chord on the Vadd4 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- VariSpeed25 songs
- Recording tape sped up or slowed down to alter pitch or tempo
- Studio: Studio technique
- Vaudeville6 songs
- Early-20th-century variety-show style – music hall sentimentality, comic novelty.
- Music: Music genre
- vdim1 song
- Chord on the vdim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Vee-Jay16 songs
- Chicago-based independent that licensed early Beatles tracks for US release in 1963–64 before Capitol committed. Released Introducing The Beatles and the US version of A Hard Day'…
- Info: Label
- vi109 songs
- Songs whose opening chord is the vi scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(97)Music: Opening chord(8)Music: Ending chord(4)
- VI18 songs
- Songs whose final chord is the VI scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(16)Music: Ending chord(2)
- VI–♭VI–V–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C♯7 → C7 → B7 → E; E7 → E♭7 → D7 → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–♭VI–V–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Bm → B♭ → A7 → D; F♯m → F → E → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–I–I–IV3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → A → A7 → D; C♯m → E → E7 → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–I–I–IV–II2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → A → A7 → D → B7; Bm → D → D7 → G → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–I–IV–♭VII–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → A/E → D → G → A; G♯m → B/F♯ → E → A → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–I–IV–I3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C♯m → E → A → E; Bm → D/F♯ → G → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–I–IV–V–I3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. C♯m → E → A → B7 → E; Am → C7 → F → G7 → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–I–IV–V–I–I2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → C7 → F → G7 → C → C7; Dm → F → B♭ → C7 → F → F7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–I–V–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → C → G7 → C; Gm → B♭ → F → B♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–I–V–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → C → G7 → F7; Em7 → G/D → D → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–I–vi–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → C → Am → G; Em → G → Em → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- VI–ii–ii2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. D7 → Gm → Gm7; D7 → Gm → Gm(maj7))
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–ii–III–IV–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Fm → B♭m → C7 → D♭ → E♭; C♯m → F♯m → G♯ → A → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–ii–iii–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Em → Am → Bm → D7; Em → Am → Bm → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–II–IV7 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Dm7 → G7 → B♭; Am7/G → D9/F♯ → F)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–II–IV–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Dm7 → G7 → B♭ → F; Em → A7 → C → G6)
- Music: Chord degree
- VI–ii–IV–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A7 → Dm → F → C; E7 → Am → C → G/D)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–II–IV–V4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Bm → E → G → A7; F♯m → B7 → D → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–ii–IV–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Fm → B♭m → D♭ → E♭; Am → Dm → F → G7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–II–V–I5 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C♯m → F♯ → B → E; Fm7 → B♭7 → E♭ → A♭)
- Music: Chord degree
- VI–II–V–I4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C♯7 → F♯7 → B7 → E; A7 → D7 → G7 → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–ii–V–I–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Dm → Gm7 → C7 → F → F7; Bm → Em7 → A7 → D → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–ii–V–I–VI–ii–V–I2 songs
- 8-chord degree progression (e.g. Dm → Gm7 → C7 → F → D7 → Gm7 → C7 → F; Bm → Em → A → D → B7 → Em → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- VI–II–V–II–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D7 → G7 → D7 → G7; E7 → A7 → D7 → A9 → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- VI–II–V–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯7 → B7 → E7 → D; C7 → F7 → B♭ → A♭add9)
- Music: Chord degree
- VI–ii–V–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C7 → Fm → B♭sus4 → B♭; F♯7 → Bm → E7sus4 → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- VI–ii–v–VI–ii–V2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯7 → Bm → Em → F♯7 → Bm → E7sus4; A → Dm → Gm → A7 → Dm → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–ii–vi–II2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Dm → Gm7 → Dm → G9; Bm → Em → Bm → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–II–vi–II–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Fm → B♭ → Fm7 → B♭7 → E♭; Dm → G9 → Dm → G9 → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–iii–IV–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → Em → F → C; Am → Em → Fmaj7 → C6)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–iii–IV–iii2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → Em → Fmaj7 → Em; C♯m → G♯m → A → G♯m)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–iii–V–I3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → Em → G7 → C; Bm7 → F♯m → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–IV–♭VII–I3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → D → G → A; Am → F → B♭ → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–IV–I–IV4 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → D → A → D; C♯m → A → E → A)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–IV–I–IV–I3 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. C♯m → A → E → A → E; D♯m → B → F♯ → B → F♯)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–IV–ii–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C♯m → A → F♯m → B7; F♯m → D → Bm7 → E7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–IV–iv–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F♯m → D → Dm → A; Am → F → Fm → C)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–IV–V–I–IV2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Cm → A♭ → B♭7 → E♭ → A♭/E♭; F♯m → D → E → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–IV–vi–II–V2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Bm → G → Bm → E → A; Dm → B♭ → Dm/A → G7 → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–vi–IV2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Em → Em7 → C; Em7/D → Em6/C♯ → C7)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi–vi–vi2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. Am → Am(maj7) → Am7; Em → Em(maj7)/D♯ → Em7/D)
- Music: Chord degree
- vi62 songs
- Chord on the vi6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- vi718 songs
- Chord on the vi7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- VI729 songs
- Chord on the VI7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- vidim72 songs
- Chord on the vidim7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Vignette19 songs
- Brief, vivid character or scene sketch – a snapshot rather than a full narrative
- Text: Narrative
- VII7 songs
- Songs whose opening chord is the VII scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(5)Music: Ending chord(1)Music: Opening chord(1)
- vii2 songs
- Chord on the vii scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- VII to VII1 song
- Section boundary moves from the VII chord to the VII chord.
- Music: Section transition
- VII+2 songs
- Chord on the VII+ scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- vii72 songs
- Chord on the vii7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- VII76 songs
- Chord on the VII7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- viidim1 song
- Chord on the viidim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- viidim71 song
- Chord on the viidim7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- viiø1 song
- Chord on the viiø scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- vim(M7)2 songs
- Chord on the vim(M7) scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- viø3 songs
- Chord on the viø scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Viola19 songs
- Bowed orchestral string instrument, alto range, lower than the violin.
- Music: Arrangement
- vm(M7)1 song
- Chord on the vm(M7) scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Vmaj72 songs
- Chord on the Vmaj7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- Vocal canon1 song
- Voices entering in succession with the same melody, overlapping in time.
- Music: Vocal work
- Vocal effect8 songs
- An audible studio effect applied to a vocal – reverb, delay, distortion, processing.
- Studio: Studio technique
- Vocal harmonies146 songs
- Multiple sung lines moving together in harmonized intervals.
- Music: Vocal work
- Voni Morrison1 song
- American songwriter best known for co-writing Buck Owens hits the Beatles covered.
- People: Songwriter
- Vox AC3024 songs
- British 30-watt valve combo amplifier – the Beatles' primary stage and studio amp through the mid-60s.
- Studio: Equipment
- Vox Continental2 songs
- Transistor combo organ with distinctive reedy tone, used widely in 1960s rock.
- Studio: Equipment
W
- Walking bass4 songs
- A bass line that moves in steady quarter-notes through chord tones and passing notes.
- Music: Bass work
- Wall of sound4 songs
- Phil Spector's production aesthetic – dense layered orchestration recorded as a single mass.
- Studio: Studio technique
- want money for people with minds that hate2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- we [WORD] wanna [VERB] the [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- we'd [WORD] [NOUN] to [VERB] the2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- we're [WORD] [WORD] [ADJ] [WORD] [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- we're sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- Wendy Horan2 songs
- Backing vocalist credited on a Beatles recording.
- People: Backing vocals(1)People: Session musician(1)
- Wes Farrell1 song
- Born December 21, 1939 · Brooklyn, New York. Brill Building songwriter and music publisher who co-wrote "Boys" with Luther Dixon. The song was a Shirelles B-side; the Beatles' Pl…
- People: Songwriter
- Whisper7 songs
- A whispered vocal passage as a deliberate musical gesture.
- Text: Recurring words(4)Music: Vocal work(3)
- William Garrett1 song
- American songwriter associated with the Marvelettes. Brought the original blues fragment that became "Please Mr. Postman" to Motown, sharing the writing credit with Georgia Dobbi…
- People: Songwriter
- Wilson Pickett influence2 songs
- Hard-driving Southern soul singer ('In the Midnight Hour').
- Music: Influence
- Woodwind22 songs
- Beatles songs with a woodwind arrangement – flutes, clarinets, oboe, bassoon, saxophones and related reeds and pipes.
- Music: Instrument group
- Wordplay20 songs
- The words are played with for their own sake: puns, invented compounds, choices driven by sound.
- Text: Lyrical device
- Work23 songs
- The working life – jobs, labor, commuting, the Monday-to-Friday grind – appears as subject matter
- Text: Motif(18)Text: Recurring words(5)
- Written for others4 songs
- Written by a Beatle for, or first given to, another artist.
- Info: Song family
- Written in India15 songs
- Written during the Beatles' 1968 Rishikesh stay studying with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
- Info: Song family
X
- XA2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XAAAA2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XAAAA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XABACC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XABACC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XABB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XABB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XABBC1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XABBC – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XABCAXBD1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XABCAXBD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XABCD2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XABCD – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XABCDA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XABCDA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XAXA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XAXA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XAXAXA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XAXAXA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XAXB2 songs
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XAXB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XAXXXX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XAXXXX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XAXXXXXB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XAXXXXXB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XXA1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XXA – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XXAB1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XXAB – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XXAX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XXAX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
- XXAXXX1 song
- A stanza rhyming on the pattern XXAXXX – letters mark which lines share an end-rhyme.
- Text: Rhyme scheme
Y
- Yesterday and Today12 songs
- Capitol US-only compilation, June 1966. Tracks pulled from UK Help!, Rubber Soul, and Revolver plus singles. Famous for the 'butcher cover' controversy.
- Info: US release
- Yoko Ono9 songs
- Conceptual artist and musician; John Lennons partner from 1968 and wife from 1969 until his death in 1980.
- People: Beatles team(3)People: Backing vocals(3)People: Handclaps(1)People: Spoken word(1)People: Tape loops(1)
- you [ADJ] [ADJ] your [NOUN] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- you [VERB] [NOUN] for [NOUN] with2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- you [VERB] it's gonna be [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- you [VERB] me that it's [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- you [VERB] that you can [VERB]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- you [VERB] you [VERB] a [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- you [VERB] you [VERB] you [VERB]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- you [VERB] you'll [VERB] the [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- you ain't gonna [VERB] it with2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- you better free your mind instead2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- you know that you can count me out2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- you say you'll change the constitution2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- you want money for people with minds that2 songs
- Recurring phrase across Beatles lyrics.
- Text: Recurring words
- you're gonna [VERB] that [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- your [NOUN] and i'll [VERB] you2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
Z
0–9
- 1-8-9-9-3-8-11-3-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 1, 8, 9, 9, 3, 8, 11, 3, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-10-10-10-101 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-10-10-8-10-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 10, 10, 8, 10, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-10-2-8-2-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 10, 2, 8, 2, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-10-3-3-3-5-6-8-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 10, 3, 3, 3, 5, 6, 8, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-10-3-3-3-6-6-6-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 10, 3, 3, 3, 6, 6, 6, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-10-5-12-141 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 10, 5, 12, 14 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-10-8-10-171 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 10, 8, 10, 17 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-11-11-16-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 11, 11, 16, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-12-5-11-11-17-6-30-4-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 12, 5, 11, 11, 17, 6, 30, 4, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-3-3-10-3-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 3, 3, 10, 3, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-3-4-10-3-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 3, 4, 10, 3, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-5-6-5-3-3-10-5-5-5-5-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 5, 6, 5, 3, 3, 10, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-7-6-3-8-9-6-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 7, 6, 3, 8, 9, 6, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-8-10-10-10-10-10-101 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 8, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-8-4-10-8-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 8, 4, 10, 8, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-8-8-10-8-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 8, 8, 10, 8, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-8-9-8-12-121 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 8, 9, 8, 12, 12 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-8-9-8-6-6-91 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 8, 9, 8, 6, 6, 9 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-8-9-9-10-9-11-91 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 8, 9, 9, 10, 9, 11, 9 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-9-14-6-8-13-8-2-3-3-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 9, 14, 6, 8, 13, 8, 2, 3, 3, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 10-9-9-10-10-101 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 10, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-10-10-16-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 10, 10, 16, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-10-11-16-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 10, 11, 16, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-11-11-16-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 11, 11, 16, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-11-5-12-141 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 11, 5, 12, 14 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-11-7-4-7-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 11, 7, 4, 7, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-4-13-6-8-11 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 4, 13, 6, 8, 1 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-5-11-6-7-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 5, 11, 6, 7, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-6-11-7-8-11 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 6, 11, 7, 8, 1 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-7-9-7-8-6-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 7, 9, 7, 8, 6, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-7-9-7-9-6-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 7, 9, 7, 9, 6, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 11-9-6-11-9-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 11, 9, 6, 11, 9, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 12-12-12-12-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 12, 12, 12, 12, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 12-12-7-4-7-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 12, 12, 7, 4, 7, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 12-14-10-9-10-10-101 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 12, 14, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 12-14-10-9-111 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 12, 14, 10, 9, 11 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 12-5-13-12-5-13-9-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 12, 5, 13, 12, 5, 13, 9, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 12-7-9-7-8-6-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 12, 7, 9, 7, 8, 6, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 12-9-10-14-9-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 12, 9, 10, 14, 9, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 12-string guitar25 songs
- Guitar strung with twelve strings in six pairs, producing a shimmering chorused tone.
- Music: Arrangement
- 13-10-13-7-6-7-8-111 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 13, 10, 13, 7, 6, 7, 8, 11 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 13-11-16-10-13-91 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 13, 11, 16, 10, 13, 9 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 13-14-10-9-101 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 13, 14, 10, 9, 10 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 13-14-6-4-7-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 13, 14, 6, 4, 7, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 13-9-10-16-9-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 13, 9, 10, 16, 9, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 15-11-11-16-19-14-19-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 15, 11, 11, 16, 19, 14, 19, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 15-12-13-15-161 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 15, 12, 13, 15, 16 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 15-13-10-9-101 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 15, 13, 10, 9, 10 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 15-8-10-6-6-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 15, 8, 10, 6, 6, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 18-17-22-17-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 18, 17, 22, 17, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 2-5-11-11-2-5-11-11-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 2, 5, 11, 11, 2, 5, 11, 11, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 2-5-2-5-12-121 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 2, 5, 2, 5, 12, 12 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 2-5-4-8-6-2-21 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 2, 5, 4, 8, 6, 2, 2 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 2-8-10-2-7-7-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 2, 8, 10, 2, 7, 7, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 3-10-7-10-7-4-4-121 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 3, 10, 7, 10, 7, 4, 4, 12 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 3-12-7-9-13-1-21 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 3, 12, 7, 9, 13, 1, 2 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 3-5-3-5-8-8-3-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 3, 5, 3, 5, 8, 8, 3, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 3-5-6-2-2-5-6-2-3-21 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 3, 5, 6, 2, 2, 5, 6, 2, 3, 2 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 3-6-3-5-8-8-3-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 3, 6, 3, 5, 8, 8, 3, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 3+ time signatures6 songs
- The song moves between three or more distinct time signatures across its sections.
- Music: Time signature
- 3M M23 8-track recorder34 songs
- American eight-track tape machine – used at EMI from late 1968.
- Studio: Equipment
- 4-3-1-2-6-5-4-4-1-2-6-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 3, 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 4, 1, 2, 6, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-4-4-4-4-4-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-1-4-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-8-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-5-5-5-6-8-6-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 8, 6, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-5-8-5-3-5-8-5-5-5-8-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 5, 8, 5, 3, 5, 8, 5, 5, 5, 8, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-6-3-6-3-6-4-4-6-3-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 6, 3, 6, 3, 6, 4, 4, 6, 3, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-7-7-11-7-10-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 7, 7, 11, 7, 10, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-7-7-5-9-7-10-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 7, 7, 5, 9, 7, 10, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-8-4-8-3-3-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 8, 4, 8, 3, 3, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-8-4-8-4-5-5-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 8, 4, 8, 4, 5, 5, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-8-4-8-4-8-4-8-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 8, 4, 8, 4, 8, 4, 8, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-8-4-9-4-5-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 8, 4, 9, 4, 5, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 4-9-4-9-7-5-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 4, 9, 4, 9, 7, 5, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-11-11-1-5-11-11-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 11, 11, 1, 5, 11, 11, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-11-11-2-5-11-11-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 11, 11, 2, 5, 11, 11, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-13-4-5-13-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 13, 4, 5, 13, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-2-8-4-4-6-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 2, 8, 4, 4, 6, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-4-5-4-5-5-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-4-5-4-5-6-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 6, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-4-6-4-4-3-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 4, 6, 4, 4, 3, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-5-5-5-2-2-2-2-2-21 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 5, 5, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-5-5-5-5-5-3-4-6-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 4, 6, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-5-5-5-6-8-6-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 8, 6, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-5-5-6-7-7-7-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-5-7-15-5-5-5-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 5, 7, 15, 5, 5, 5, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-6-4-8-6-5-6-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 6, 4, 8, 6, 5, 6, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-6-5-2-5-6-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 6, 5, 2, 5, 6, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-7-5-5-7-3-9-91 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 7, 5, 5, 7, 3, 9, 9 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-8-2-8-8-2-7-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 8, 2, 8, 8, 2, 7, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-8-2-8-8-2-7-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 8, 2, 8, 8, 2, 7, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-8-4-8-6-8-5-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 8, 4, 8, 6, 8, 5, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 5-8-6-5-7-6-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 5, 8, 6, 5, 7, 6, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-4-7-6-4-7-11 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 4, 7, 6, 4, 7, 1 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-5-6-5-6-5-6-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-5-6-5-6-9-6-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 9, 6, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-5-6-5-7-5-7-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 5, 6, 5, 7, 5, 7, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-5-7-6-4-4-6-5-8-6-4-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 5, 7, 6, 4, 4, 6, 5, 8, 6, 4, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-6-6-5-6-5-6-5-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 6, 6, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-6-6-6-6-4-9-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 4, 9, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-6-7-5-6-6-7-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 6, 7, 5, 6, 6, 7, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-6-7-6-8-6-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 6, 7, 6, 8, 6, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-6-8-5-6-4-10-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 6, 8, 5, 6, 4, 10, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-7-4-7-6-7-4-7-4-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 7, 4, 7, 6, 7, 4, 7, 4, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-8-6-7-7-7-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 8, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-8-6-8-7-7-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 8, 6, 8, 7, 7, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-8-6-8-7-7-6-11 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 8, 6, 8, 7, 7, 6, 1 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-9-9-8-7-7-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 9, 9, 8, 7, 7, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 6, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 6/41 song
- Six beats per bar, typically in two groups of three – slow waltz feel.
- Music: Time signature
- 7-5-7-5-6-5-6-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 5, 7, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-6-8-8-6-8-8-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 6, 8, 8, 6, 8, 8, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-6-8-8-9-5-21 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 6, 8, 8, 9, 5, 2 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-7-7-7-11-3-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 7, 7, 7, 11, 3, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-7-7-7-9-8-4-4-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 7, 7, 7, 9, 8, 4, 4, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-7-7-7-9-9-9-9-9-9-111 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 7, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 11 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-7-8-8-7-8-8-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 7, 8, 8, 7, 8, 8, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-7-9-7-7-9-11-10-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 7, 9, 7, 7, 9, 11, 10, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-8-8-10-11-4-9-91 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 8, 8, 10, 11, 4, 9, 9 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-9-10-10-10-71 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 9, 10, 10, 10, 7 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7-9-6-3-9-7-6-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 7, 9, 6, 3, 9, 7, 6, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 7♭92 songs
- Dominant 7th with flattened 9th. Tense, dissonant sound common in jazz and blues.
- Music: Chord type
- 7♯95 songs
- Dominant 7th with raised 9th. The 'Hendrix chord' – gritty, bluesy tension. E.g. E7#9 in Purple Haze.
- Music: Chord type
- 8-10-8-6-15-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 10, 8, 6, 15, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-13-5-10-15-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 13, 5, 10, 15, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-13-5-8-13-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 13, 5, 8, 13, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-4-10-8-4-10-101 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 4, 10, 8, 4, 10, 10 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-4-10-8-4-10-91 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 4, 10, 8, 4, 10, 9 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-5-10-7-7-7-2-11 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 5, 10, 7, 7, 7, 2, 1 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-6-5-8-8-8-4-4-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 6, 5, 8, 8, 8, 4, 4, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-6-8-64 songs
- Common meter (most-used English hymn meter; ballad meter when combined with ABCB rhyme scheme).
- Text: Line length
- 8-6-9-6-8-6-11 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 6, 9, 6, 8, 6, 1 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-8-12-7-7-12-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 8, 12, 7, 7, 12, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-8-12-8-8-13-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 8, 12, 8, 8, 13, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-8-13-9-13-5-11-5-11-101 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 8, 13, 9, 13, 5, 11, 5, 11, 10 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-8-4-8-8-3-10-10-111 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 8, 4, 8, 8, 3, 10, 10, 11 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-8-4-8-8-4-10-10-111 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 8, 4, 8, 8, 4, 10, 10, 11 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-8-7-8-8-7-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 8, 7, 8, 8, 7, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-8-8-8-5-4-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 8, 8, 8, 5, 4, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-9-8-10-4-6-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 9, 8, 10, 4, 6, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-9-8-8-8-5-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 9, 8, 8, 8, 5, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-9-8-8-8-9-7-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 9, 8, 8, 8, 9, 7, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 8-9-8-9-7-7-91 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 8, 9, 8, 9, 7, 7, 9 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-10-7-7-8-4-41 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 10, 7, 7, 8, 4, 4 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-10-9-9-8-8-91 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 10, 9, 9, 8, 8, 9 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-2-8-2-8-2-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 2, 8, 2, 8, 2, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-4-12-4-12-4-12-21 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 4, 12, 4, 12, 4, 12, 2 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-5-11-8-9-5-10-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 5, 11, 8, 9, 5, 10, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-5-11-8-9-5-10-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 5, 11, 8, 9, 5, 10, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-5-11-8-9-5-9-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 5, 11, 8, 9, 5, 9, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-5-13-12-5-14-9-61 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 5, 13, 12, 5, 14, 9, 6 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-5-9-7-5-9-51 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 5, 9, 7, 5, 9, 5 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-7-4-8-7-3-10-10-111 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 7, 4, 8, 7, 3, 10, 10, 11 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-7-6-10-7-10-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 7, 6, 10, 7, 10, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-7-6-3-7-9-6-31 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 7, 6, 3, 7, 9, 6, 3 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-8-10-9-8-8-111 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 8, 10, 9, 8, 8, 11 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-8-13-8-12-91 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 8, 13, 8, 12, 9 syllables.
- Text: Line length
- 9-8-9-8-10-8-9-81 song
- A stanza whose successive lines run 9, 8, 9, 8, 10, 8, 9, 8 syllables.
- Text: Line length
♭♯
- [ADJ] [NOUN] won't you [VERB] with2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [NOUN] for [NOUN] with [VERB] that2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [NOUN] won't you [VERB] with me2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] [NOUN] for [NOUN] with [VERB]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] [VERB] [WORD] the [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] [VERB] and [VERB] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] and [VERB] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] it [WORD] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] me [VERB] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] me [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] me but you haven't [VERB]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] my [NOUN] and [VERB] me2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] the [NOUN] that she [VERB]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] the [WORD] of the [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] to [VERB] [WORD] [VERB]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] to [VERB] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] with you [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] you [VERB] a [ADJ] [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] you [WORD] [ADJ] [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] you [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]3 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] you [WORD] [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] you [WORD] the [NOUN] and2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [VERB] your [NOUN] and i'll [VERB]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [WORD] [NOUN] the [NOUN] [VERB]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [WORD] [NOUN] to [VERB] the [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [WORD] [VERB] it [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [WORD] [WORD] [VERB] the [NOUN]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [WORD] [WORD] [VERB] the [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- [WORD] one [WORD] [WORD] [WORD]2 songs
- Lyric template recurring across Beatles songs.
- Text: Lyric shape
- ♭II9 songs
- Songs whose opening chord is the ♭II scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(6)Music: Ending chord(2)Music: Opening chord(1)
- ♭ii1 song
- Chord on the ♭ii scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭II to ♭II1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭II chord to the ♭II chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭ii°1 song
- Songs whose final chord is the ♭ii° scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Ending chord
- ♭ii° to IV1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭ii° chord to the IV chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭II72 songs
- Chord on the ♭II7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭ii71 song
- Chord on the ♭ii7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭II7sus41 song
- Chord on the ♭II7sus4 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭iidim1 song
- Chord on the ♭iidim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭iidim71 song
- Chord on the ♭iidim7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭III47 songs
- Songs whose final chord is the ♭III scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(41)Music: Ending chord(6)
- ♭iii2 songs
- Chord on the ♭iii scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭III to ♭II1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭III chord to the ♭II chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭III to ♭III1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭III chord to the ♭III chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭III to IV1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭III chord to the IV chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭III–♭VI–♭III–V–i2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. A → D → A → C♯7 → F♯m; G → C → G → B7 → Em)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭III–♭VI–ii°–V–i2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. Cmaj7 → Fmaj7 → Bm7♭5 → E7 → Am; C → Fmaj7 → Bdim → E7 → Am)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭III–IV–I–IV3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. A♭ → B♭ → F → B♭; C → D → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭III+1 song
- Chord on the ♭III+ scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭III63 songs
- Chord on the ♭III6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭III74 songs
- Chord on the ♭III7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭iiidim3 songs
- Chord on the ♭iiidim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭IIImaj71 song
- Chord on the ♭IIImaj7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭IImaj71 song
- Chord on the ♭IImaj7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VI41 songs
- Songs whose opening chord is the ♭VI scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Scale degree(37)Music: Opening chord(2)Music: Ending chord(2)
- ♭VI to ♭II1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭VI chord to the ♭II chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭VI to ♭III1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭VI chord to the ♭III chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭VI–♭III–V–i3 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D → A → C♯7 → F♯m; F → C → E7 → Am)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VI–i–♭VI2 songs
- 3-chord degree progression (e.g. C/E → Em6 → Cmaj7; A → C♯m → A9)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VI–I–V–I2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. C → E7 → B7 → E7; C7 → E → B → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VI–V–I–IV–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. F7 → E7 → A → D/A → A; C → B7 → E → A7 → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VI–V–V–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F → E → E7 → D; Gmaj7 → F♯sus4 → F♯7 → E)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VI+2 songs
- Chord on the ♭VI+ scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VI131 song
- Chord on the ♭VI13 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭vi71 song
- Chord on the ♭vi7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VI712 songs
- Chord on the ♭VI7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VI91 song
- Chord on the ♭VI9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭vidim2 songs
- Chord on the ♭vidim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VII74 songs
- Flat-seven chord – the most iconic Beatles chord, borrowed from Mixolydian mode
- Music: Scale degree(66)Music: Opening chord(5)Music: Ending chord(3)
- ♭vii1 song
- Songs whose final chord is the ♭vii scale-degree chord of the home key.
- Music: Ending chord
- ♭VII to ♭III2 songs
- Section boundary moves from the ♭VII chord to the ♭III chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭VII to iii1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭VII chord to the iii chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭VII to iv1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭VII chord to the iv chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭VII to vi1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♭VII chord to the vi chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♭VII–♭III–I–♭III2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G7 → C7 → A7 → C7; D → G → E → G)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VII–♭III–I–IV2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G7 → C → A7 → D7; G7 → C/B → A7 → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VII–I–IV–V–I2 songs
- 5-chord degree progression (e.g. G → A → D → E → A; C/D → D → G → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VII–I–vi–II2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. F → G → Em7 → A7; G → A → F♯m → B)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VII–IV–I–IV–I–IV2 songs
- 6-chord degree progression (e.g. G → D → A → D/A → A → D/A; G → D → A → D → A → D)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VII–V–I–vi2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. G → E → A → F♯m; B♭ → G → C → Am)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VII–VI–♭VI–V2 songs
- 4-chord degree progression (e.g. D7 → C♯7 → C7 → B7; F7 → E7 → E♭7 → D7)
- Music: Chord degree
- ♭VII62 songs
- Chord on the ♭VII6 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VII6/91 song
- Chord on the ♭VII6/9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VII713 songs
- Chord on the ♭VII7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭vii72 songs
- Chord on the ♭vii7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VIIadd94 songs
- Chord on the ♭VIIadd9 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭viidim1 song
- Chord on the ♭viidim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭viidim71 song
- Chord on the ♭viidim7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VIImaj71 song
- Chord on the ♭VIImaj7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♭VImaj710 songs
- Chord on the ♭VImaj7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♯IV3 songs
- Chord on the ♯IV scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♯IV to VII1 song
- Section boundary moves from the ♯IV chord to the VII chord.
- Music: Section transition
- ♯IV71 song
- Chord on the ♯IV7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♯ivdim3 songs
- Chord on the ♯ivdim scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
- ♯ivdim72 songs
- Chord on the ♯ivdim7 scale degree – Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.
- Music: Scale degree
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