Monday, May 20, 2013

Hard Days Night First Chord

I seen videos and read discussions about the mysterious opening chord to a Hard Days Night.  A friend emailed this audio track to me recently. This nails it!








The speaker is Randy Bachman from his Canadian Broadcasting Company show called Vinyl Tap. He is discussing a conversation he had with Chris Martin who is the son of Beatles producer George Martin.



The explanation of THE chord is so simple, it make me wonder why no one figured it out before.




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

yep, very close. but still missing the piano.

marcusohara@aol.com said...

That is exactly what a friend of mine who is a recording engineer said. Antal, it must be nice to know great minds think alike.

Marc

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