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♭VI7

Chord on the ♭VI7 scale degree - Roman-numeral shorthand for its position in the home key.

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It is heard on twelve recordings, from 1963 to 1970, almost the length of their recording life. More of Abbey Road has it than any other album, four of its seventeen tracks. It first turns up on 'Please Please Me', cut 26 November 1962, and was last heard on 'I Me Mine'. 'And I Love Her' and 'Lady Madonna' have it too. It goes quiet after 1964 and comes back in 1968 for 'Lady Madonna'. Among them, 'Glass Onion' is one of two of their recordings with recorder.
See alsoChord shape:C7 → B7Chord shape:C7 → EChord shape:C → A♭7Chord shape:C7 → B7 → EChord literal:E → A → D → GChord shape:C → F → D♭Chord degree:V–I–♭VIChord literal:F7 → E7
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Paul McCartney reaches for the ♭VI7 scale degree on 11% of his sole-written songs (7 of 65) - roughly 3.3× the rate at which the other Beatles do (3% average): 'And I Love Her', 'Honey Pie', and 'I Will'.

And I Love HerHoney PieI WillPaul McCartney

Analysis

By Year

Song count per year

By Songwriter

% of each member's catalogue with this tag (by writing credit)

By Era

Early2 · 17%
Mid-period0 · 0%
Late10 · 83%

By Album

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