Blues
Rooted in the 12-bar blues tradition with blues-scale phrasing and call-and-response vocabulary
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Songs(42 of 50)
Love Me Do
Mixolydian inflection, bent notes
Can't Buy Me Love
12-bar verse form
You Can't Do That
12-bar verse frame, dom7 vocabulary
You Can't Do That
Dominant-7 verse cycle
I Feel Fine
Riff modeled on Bobby Parker's 'Watch Your Step'
She's a Woman
Day Tripper
Day Tripper
Dominant 7th riff vocabulary
Flying
'Flying' is built on a straightforward twelve-bar blues chord progression (I-IV7-V7 in C).
Lady Madonna
Boogie-woogie / 'Bad Penny Blues'
Revolution
Revolution
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Revolution 1
Yer Blues
12-bar blues form
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I'm So Tired
Yer Blues
12-bar blues lyric idioms ("yes I'm lonely")
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Revolution 1
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
A blues tonality in 'Mother Superior' section
I'm So Tired
Helter Skelter
Pentatonic with blue 3rd
Birthday
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Clapton's blues-scale solo phrasing
Hey Bulldog
Hey Bulldog
Get Back
Get Back
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Old Brown Shoe
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Come Together
Come Together
I've Got a Feeling
Dig It
For You Blue
For You Blue
12-bar blues form invoked in lyric
I Me Mine
I've Got a Feeling
Dig It
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