Beatles songs signatures

[Tymophil]

Hi everyone,

Can you point me to a Beatles song written in 12/8 or 4/4 with triplets?

Is there a Beatles song written in 4/4, mixing eighth notes and triplets?

Is there a Beatles song written in 4/4, with eighth notes, with a triplet feel (like Black Night from Deep Purple)?

Thanks.

 

[thabassmon]

Oh Darling!

 

[Hachimitsu]

Girl

 

[SteveCS]

Is there a Beatles song written in 4/4, with eighth notes, with a triplet feel (like Black Night from Deep Purple)?

Revolution?

 

[Flamingo21]

Why do you ask?

 

[JRA]

Revolution

 

[bassfuser]

"We Can Work It Out" has a triplet section or maybe it's a time signature change during the bridge.

"Yer Blues"

 

[Tymophil]

Why do you ask?

I want to show some students how music is written, and why it is written the way it is. I am a french math teacher, not a musician. I work with the english teacher who used the Beatles songs for his lessons.

I would like to find a Beatles song where triplet feel and binary feel are used side by side, like it is at the beginning of Black Night.

I already plan to use Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, to show the difference between 3/4 and 4/4.

Does it make sense?

 

[31HZ]

There are a number of them, but "All My Lovin'" is a standout in that the 12/8 feel is immediately obvious. It can't be confused with a swung-triplet feel because the guitars strum all 12 beats.

 

[BrotherMister]

Happiness Is A Warm Gun - Starts in 4, occasion bars of 2/4 and a bar of 5/4 but after the lyric 'national trust' the band moves into 9/8 and 12/8 and a bar of 10/8 as well. Then back to 4 for a while and then 12/8 where the lyric is 'When I hold you in my arms' but watch Ringo in this section because he still groups the triplets in 2's while the rest of the band are grouping them in 3 (so good!) then the bands back to 4 until the end. There is a bar of 2 in there as well.

Being For The Benefit Of Mr.Kite is in 4 but the circus instrumental section is all based on triplets.

Norwegian Wood - 12/8

Oh Darling - 12/8

Guitar solos in Taxman are really heavily triplet based over the 4

This Boy - 12/8

Magical Mystery tour has a lot of quarter note triplets towards the end

I Want You (She's So Heavy) moves between 6/8 and 4 a lot. Some of the 2/4 bars are all quarter note triplets as well.

Long Long Long - 6/8


Probably missing a lot more songs.

 

[TomB]

I think “Girl” puts ‘em side by side.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

Non-Beatles songs:

Michael Jackson - “The Way You Make Me Feel”

R.E.M. - “Everybody Hurts”

Gwen Stefani - “The Sweet Escape” ft. Akon

Rihanna - “Love on the Brain”

Ed Sheeran - “Perfect”

Whitney Houston - “I Have Nothing”

Whitney Houston - “Saving All My Love for You”

Sam Smith - “One Last Song”

Backstreet Boys - “I’ll Never Break Your Heart”

Alicia Keys - "Fallin'”

The Beatles - “Norwegian Wood”

Toto - "Hold The Line”

Tears For Fears - “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”

James Brown - “It’s a Man’s World”

Etta James - “At Last”

Charlie Puth - “Dangerously”

 

[Torrente Cro]

You've got to hide your love away

 

[andruca]

"We Can Work It Out" has a triplet section or maybe it's a time signature change during the bridge.

"Yer Blues"

THIS. "We can work it out" has both 4/4 and triplets. Also "I want you (she's so heavy)".

 

[Flamingo21]

Well, math teacher, you now have a LOT of homework!

 

[singlemalt]

Pink Floyd's Money shifts gears from 7/8 to 4/4.

Tons of blues depend on the 3 against 4 feeling.

Quadratic equations are more fun with heavy rock.

 

[Killing Floor]

What's a Beatles Song?

 

[dalkowski]

I never before considered how much today's mathcore owes to the fabs...

 

[azureblue]

Norwegian wood

 

[klyph]

The best side by side example imaginable, I think...
This actually switches from 3/4 to 4/4 for the bridge and back again!
Recorded by The Beatles but NOT written by them.
Love this so much, I listened to this disc nonstop when it came out.