What Is That Mysterious Beatles Chord?
It’s one of the most famous chords in rock music. That “krrraannggg!” chord right off the top of the Beatles’ classic, “A Hard Day’s Night.” What is that chord? No one in the Beatles’ organization would tell. Not even George Martin. So, arguments raged for decades about the mysterious chord. Fights broke out in the streets of Wichita and Dodge City. Frightened horses galloped away in clouds of dust. Doc Yada-Yadams spent hours treating the injured and sipping hooch from his still. Nobody could agree on the identity of that chord. Even Ms Puma, who normally knows everything, had to admit she was stumped. Finally, from out of the frozen northern wastelands of Nova Scotia, Canada, a stranger rode into town, a mathematics professor named Jason Brown. And what did the stranger do? Why, he took off his hat and tossed it on a peg, and then he sat down at a computer and digitized that dang chord real good. And then Dr. Brown spent six months deconstructing it. When it was all over and the dust
