The Fadd9 on the electric 12-string guitar was crucial to the power of the chord, giving it a richness which would otherwise have been absent. ... George Martin played a Steinway grand piano on A Hard Day’s Night, and contributed to the opening chord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwfH9oAiPH0
mathematics trick
Ask your mark to think of any number
multiply it by two silently
Add 10 to the total number
have them divide the new number by 2
finally subtract the original number from the new number
tell them the number they are left with is 5
Back in junior high (’66-’67 or thereabouts) I spent hours and hours trying to get that chord right. Never did quite get it, of course...
That chord is a freaking monster. I’ve always loved it.
Bump!
Bump!
Next, he’ll spend a few more decades discovering what John meant by “Eight Days A Week”...
Spent a lot of time recording stuff. Here is what happened: They decided to have a hard chord open the song. Truth is what sounds big and rich and loud to the ear in the studio is often extremely underwhelming coming out of the monitors. So they started stacking stuff, not really thinking about it but rather listening...until what came out of the monitors on playback sounded reasonably “phat”, as it would be phrased some years later. Even making demos you sometimes have to build things up because a recording smallifies the live playing/singing. Since your listening rather than thinking you can TOTALLY forget what went into a particular sound.
Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing “Hallelujah”
Genius