Defining riff

There's a Place

Harmonica hook

She Loves You

Ringo's tom-tom intro fill

It Won't Be Long

Falling 'yeah-yeah-yeah' vocal hook

Don't Bother Me

Minor-key guitar riff opens song

You Can't Do That

Lennon's D7♯9 voicing - F natural over D7 creates signature dissonance

I Should Have Known Better

Opening harmonica figure

And I Love Her

Harrison's four-note classical-guitar intro/outro figure

I Feel Fine

Iconic descending guitar riff

What You're Doing

12-string ostinato over D-G

Ticket to Ride

Paul's lead-guitar hook

Help!

George's descending lead line under chorus

Another Girl

Lead guitar riff opens intro and closes outro

You Like Me Too Much

Electric piano descending intro figure

Nowhere Man

Jangling Stratocaster lead figure

In My Life

Descending lead-guitar octaves opening

If I Needed Someone

12-string pedal-tone figure over A

Drive My Car

Two-guitar opening figure

Day Tripper

Chromatic E7-based guitar hook

Paperback Writer

Syncopated lead-guitar opening riff

Love You To

Seven-note sitar motif from alap

I Want to Tell You

Opening A-major lead-guitar riff

And Your Bird Can Sing

Harmonised lead-guitar hook drives the song

Taxman

Built on the D7♯9 stab riff

Lady Madonna

Boogie-woogie piano figure

Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

I→IV vamp intro

Glass Onion

Recorder phrase echoing 'Fool on the Hill'

Helter Skelter

Birthday

Bass and guitar in octaves

Hey Bulldog

Piano riff on B minor

Old Brown Shoe

Here Comes the Sun

Opening acoustic guitar riff

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Polythene Pam

D-A-E double-plagal figure

Come Together

Bass figure across the verse

I've Got a Feeling

I-IV6/4 vamp