There was a time when a pop song wasn't supposed to run much longer than the two-minute mark. Anything over three minutes and you'd run the risk radio wouldn't play it. As they did with so many other ...

You can try this with any chord that is not part of the key you’re playing in. The picking pattern for the song Blackbird is ...

Paul McCartney said one Beatles song features a strange chord. He shared why this showed that they were growing as writers.

The Beatles never lacked creative ingenuity, but George Harrison claimed that he invented his own chord on this classic.

He had a habit of praising songs in one breath and ... about the ‘Aeolian cadences of the chords’ which started the whole intellectual bit about the Beatles.” ...

Get to grips with this invaluable and interesting addition to the songwriter's vocabulary used by Paul McCartney and jazzers ...