I Am The Walrus Sound Analysis

The Beatles for almost 50 years have been the most popular singers and songwriters in the world. There song ‘I Am the Walrus’ written in 1967, “I Am the Walrus was a composite of three song fragments. The first part was inspired by a two-note police siren Lennon heard while at home in Weybridge. This became "Mr. City policeman sitting pretty...". ‘ Lennon. (1967). I Am the Walrus. Available: http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/i-am-the-walrus/. Last accessed 08/12/2015. For the actual song, the idea of the Walrus was from the poem ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’ which has been said to be from the sequel of Alice in Wonderland called Through the Looking Glass. In 1980 in a Playboy interview, Lennon said: "It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll
Musicologist Alan W. Pollack analyses: “The chord progression of the outro itself is a harmonic Moebius strip with scales in bassline and top voice that move in contrary motion”(Notes on ‘I Am the Walrus’ (1996) Available: http://goo.gl/LWN2lp Last accessed 08/12/2015. At the end of the song it uses a Shepard tone, progression is then used, built on ascending and descending lines in a bass and string, which is repeated as the song fades away. Many other pop songs, uses clear chord progressions and distinct instrumentation which keep the melody nice and clear, however, ‘I Am the Walrus” is shown to be one big musical jumble, with different combinations of chords thrown in. To some people this can just be seen or thought of as a one big disturbance, not necessarily causing massive outbreak and hurting peoples ears, but just the fact that it doesn’t use your typical normal musical structure of the same chords throughout and the fact that just random number of chords have been thrown into the song, there is always something different every time to listen to it that you never pick up on, and because it doesn’t have much of a structure this can cause a disturbance to people especially the ones that are quite virtuoso. However, to the other amount of people who don’t find this a disturbance, it can be seen as very different. There are many different opinions on the song itself and
“The feel of the back-beat is subtly modulated over the course of the song. We start off with gently rocking eighth notes (note how the cellos mimic the lead vocal's oscillation between E and D#), and end up with more of an abrasive quarter note march, with a brief hiatus in the very middle of the proceedings” (Pollack, W, A. Notes on ‘I Am the Walrus’ (1996) Available: http://goo.gl/LWN2lp Last accessed 08/12/2015. In Alan, W. Pollack’s article he goes onto talk about the whole song and each section of the song and the walkthrough of it all, he goes onto talk about each verse individually including a layout of the notes used, for example: “The intro is seven (and a half) measures long, and harmonically converges to the home key from the relatively remote starting point of V-of-V: (Figure.01, Intro to I Am the Walrus,