Music · Music genre
Indian classical
Rooted in North Indian classical music - raga scales, drone foundations, and tabla rhythm patterns
5
songs
From 1965 to 1968, it is heard on five recordings. 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)' opens the run and 'The Inner Light' closes it. Two of them are 'Love You To' and 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'. Of the five, 'Within You Without You' carries swarmandal as well, which only two of their recordings do.
See alsoArrangement:TablaSolo / Riff:Sitar soloInstrument group:IndianSong family:Indian songVocabulary:Rich vocabularyArrangement:SitarSitar:George HarrisonArrangement:Tamboura
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Beatles songs with 'Indian classical' also have 'Drone' about 7.2x as often as the catalogue average (5 of 5, vs an overall rate of 30 in 217 songs).
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% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)
By Era
Early0 · 0%
Mid-period4 · 80%
Late1 · 20%
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