IV → iv → I – major subdominant darkening to minor before resolving, creating a bittersweet color shift (e.g. F → Fm → C).
Paul McCartney uses "Minor plagal" on 16% of his sole-written songs (11 of 70) – roughly 7.4× the rate at which the other Beatles do (2% average).
Song count per year
% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)
as D → Dm → A
as C → Cm → G/B
Updated
Book
Harmony & Voice Leading
Aldwell & Schachter
Book
All the Songs
Margotin & Guesdon
Sheet music
Musicnotes – Beatles Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Musicnotes
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