Indian music influence
Indian classical scales, drones, or instruments shape the writing.
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Songs(20)
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Rain
Drone-based static harmony
She Said She Said
Modal guitar phrasing in lead lines
Tomorrow Never Knows
Taxman
McCartney's solo uses raga-like phrasing and bends
And Your Bird Can Sing
Toby Litt has called it a drone quality with raga phrasing in the twin-lead riff
Love You To
Hindustani khyal form, Kafi thaat
I Want to Tell You
McCartney's melismatic vocal on the outro 'I've got time'
Strawberry Fields Forever
Swarmandal
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Tamboura drone
Getting Better
Tambura drone in final verse
Within You Without You
Lyric form mirrors Hindustani devotional song structure
Baby, You're a Rich Man
Clavioline shehnai imitation
Blue Jay Way
Raga-derived modal scale, tambura-style drone
The Inner Light
It's All Too Much
Drone-based composition
Here Comes the Sun
Phrasing in the interludes
Something
Gamaks in guitar solo
Across the Universe (Wildlife version)
Across the Universe
Sanskrit mantra refrain
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