I Want to Tell You - The Beatles

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Performance forces & their handling

- More conventional instrumentation (prominent drums, bass etc)

- Piano provides block chords

- Backing vocals rise high (wide range) unlike Harrison's lead vocals ( narrow range)

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Strcuture

- 4 bar intro (main guiar riff)

- Lack of traditional chorus

- Verse/Bridge/Verse structure

-Coda 

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Tonality

Tonic key = A major 

Bridge = B minor (supertonic)

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Harmony

- Verse = chords are conventional (tonic/dominant relations)

- Bridge = unexpected chords, including diminished chords

- Frequent tonic pedal

- Dissonance is common - piano chords (bar 10)

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Melody

- Lead vocal is narrow range and conjunct 

- Melismatic chanting in outro - reflects Indian influence

- Lyrics relfect Hindu influence

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Tempo, Metre and Rhythm

- Fast, steady tempo

- 4/4 metre

- Guitar riff has triplet crotchets

- Irregular phrase lengths

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