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Walter Everett

Music theorist

Oct 13, 2026

speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
15:19
Sounds better on a 12-string.
15:20
The F chord, meaning the nut position F chord, the beginner's cowboy version of the F chord, but with the little finger stopping the G on the first string, the high E string.
15:35
And so it's often called an F9 chord because that's how the guitarist would think of it as an F chord with an added ninth.
15:45
And that would sound on a solo six-string acoustic, which is likely what John Lennon was trying different chords out on in talking to George Martin, would've sounded like this.
16:01
[plays chord] Okay.
16:06
Now, apparently that was one of several different chords John tried for George Martin, and it wasn't completely invented at that point.
16:16
In fact, Lennon and Harrison had used that same voicing in Cry For A Shadow.

32 MINS LATER

48:43
[laughs]
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
42:07
That don't worry, baby...
42:23
It's under George's ostinato, obviously.
42:26
Then to talk about the retransition itself, the bridge, what I want to talk about is how Ringo sets it off with a big crash.
42:35
And then you get nothing.
42:37
You get stop time.
42:38
Paul does his guitar solo.
42:41
And then Lennon comes in.

7 MINS LATER

49:57
And then the last instrumental, well, actually not the last, but the last

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