The Beatles Musical Analysis
The Beatles Analysis
The Beatles have been a huge influence on the development of rock with their eccentric and creative style. Their ground breaking album (Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band) has been one of the most influential album in setting new and eccentric building blocks for the genre of pop rock. Their style will be analysed in detail to show just how influential, eccentric and creative the Beatles were with the songs: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and A Day in the Life both from their ground breaking album.
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
This song opens with an eccentric noise; it can be best described as an electronic harpsichord. It’s echoed and is playing an angular disjunct melody. Then a bass guitar is introduced and then vocals are introduced making the texture thicker one instrument at a time. This album was full of ground breaking songs and a new style which was unbelievably simple but sounded so complicated and eccentric. The first verse has a thin texture, as it progresses further into the verse, the instruments become more vibrant and the vocals become echoey and sounds distant. This creates a utopic atmosphere setting up the song for the narcotic high feeling this song creates. The melody of the vocals is monotone but it has a slight echo. This could be to do with the fact that the song is proclaimed to be about LSD as the song infamously spells LSD. It could be inferring that he is spaced out or just out of it, tripping on LSD and everything is surreal and fairy tale like as explained in the lyrics and at the end of each phrase the vocals slide downwards, this could be to do with the LSD factor again as he might be getting another hit etc. still sustaining the utopic atmosphere. In the transition to the chorus the drums count in but he counts in at 3/4 timing and the chorus is in 4/4. This is very unusual, especially in a pop song. This contributes to how the Beatles style was so sophisticated but still each individual instrument is
The Beatles have been a huge influence on the development of rock with their eccentric and creative style. Their ground breaking album (Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band) has been one of the most influential album in setting new and eccentric building blocks for the genre of pop rock. Their style will be analysed in detail to show just how influential, eccentric and creative the Beatles were with the songs: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and A Day in the Life both from their ground breaking album.
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds
This song opens with an eccentric noise; it can be best described as an electronic harpsichord. It’s echoed and is playing an angular disjunct melody. Then a bass guitar is introduced and then vocals are introduced making the texture thicker one instrument at a time. This album was full of ground breaking songs and a new style which was unbelievably simple but sounded so complicated and eccentric. The first verse has a thin texture, as it progresses further into the verse, the instruments become more vibrant and the vocals become echoey and sounds distant. This creates a utopic atmosphere setting up the song for the narcotic high feeling this song creates. The melody of the vocals is monotone but it has a slight echo. This could be to do with the fact that the song is proclaimed to be about LSD as the song infamously spells LSD. It could be inferring that he is spaced out or just out of it, tripping on LSD and everything is surreal and fairy tale like as explained in the lyrics and at the end of each phrase the vocals slide downwards, this could be to do with the LSD factor again as he might be getting another hit etc. still sustaining the utopic atmosphere. In the transition to the chorus the drums count in but he counts in at 3/4 timing and the chorus is in 4/4. This is very unusual, especially in a pop song. This contributes to how the Beatles style was so sophisticated but still each individual instrument is