How The Beatles Wrote 27 #1 Songs

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I analyzed all 27 of the Beatles #1 hit songs, and at the end of this video you’ll understand how to think like a hit songwriter to create and arrange songs that engage your audience, keep them listening, and coming back for more.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles have written the most all time #1 hit songs, and have held that title since the 60s.
What is it about the Beatles songwriting that fuelled Beatlemania, and what can we learn from their approach to arranging a Hit Song?
This video are part of a series where we examine trends in popular music. We’ll be measuring the Structure and Instrumentation of all 27 of The Beatles #1 Hit Songs to look for the similarities, tropes, and tells of simplistic songwriting genius. Let’s get into it…
0:00 Intro
0:41 What is Pop Song Structure?
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1:36 A A B A Form
3:24 3 Ways to Design Better Song Structure
5:04 Keys used in Beatles #1 songs
5:39 Chords used in Beatles #1 Songs
6:14 Secondary Dominants for Dummies
7:13 Instrumentation of a Beatles #1
8:01 Will the Beatles songs & techniques matter in 60 years?
9:03 Next: The Beatles vs Max Martin #1 Hit Songwriter Showdown
9:41 Why are Modern pop songs 60 sec longer on average?
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@MadLeoAF 3 года назад

Back when the Beatles were recording they were releasing on vinyl, which only has a limited amount of space. I would think that limited amount of space would greatly influence the songwriting structure and how long each one was. It's a luxury that we can make songs whatever length we want now. I think the extra time is in the repetitiveness of not only choruses but every section, like having a second verse that's just as long as the 1st, a pre chorus that's heard 2 or sometimes 3 times, intros/outros, everything. Back then pop songs were concise and they had to be, no room for fluff. Thanks for the vid! Very informative (:

@currentwork4353 3 года назад

The Beatles have influenced a lot in instrumentation, nearly ever band started to use a bass, drumkit and 2 guitarists. Also George Harrison worked in the making of synth

@MICKEYISLOWD 2 года назад

The Beatles music just blows my mind how they can write an seemingly ordinary song yet just at the right time they changed it up using clever modulations, parallel minors and sometimes take chords that shouldn't work together yet the melody tied them seamlessly as in the intro to 'If I Fell'. I really believe no amount of music studying can take someone to the brilliance of the Beatles. You have to hear music in a certain way to become this good. They outstripped everyone achievements who came before them 100 fold and revolutionized the entire industry. This kind of thing only happens once a century.

@djenkins555 2 месяца назад

They were four lads from Liverpool. Do you really think they wrote their own music? Wakey wakey eggs and bakey there's a giant influence machine designed to make money. You've been sold a fairy tail.

@jmad627 3 года назад

My opinion is yes, they will still be popular fifty years from now, and eternally. Great music like what we all refer to as classical, is timeless. If it wasn’t, symphony orchestras around the world wouldn’t be playing Bach, Beethoven, Mozart etc to this day. One major difference is we have the recordings of the actual artists whereas we only have the written down sheet music of the classical composers of the 18th and 19th centuries.

@StephenCarlBaldwin Год назад

This is an excellent tutorial -- including a statistical survey of Beatles chord progressions -- that will make your songwriting better. Bravo!

@jennybeltran631 3 года назад

Super informative and interesting. Thanks! Looking forward to more!

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it, Jenny!

@UFPharmacy 2 года назад

Great analysis!

@WilltheAstrologer 3 года назад

You’re a goddayum genius bro! Thank you so much for this & the Max Martin vid they’re incredibly fascinating & helpful!!!

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

Big thanks for the support, Will! :D Glad you enjoyed the videos.

@johnbadminton5713 6 месяцев назад

Complete mastery of traditional song structure, modt importantly inventive genius disregarded in this vid, then it's words and melody, then execution. No more no less.

@80zboy 3 года назад

Excellent video and analysis. Good work Rob!

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

Thanks so much for watching Stu! I remember you introduced me to a lot of these songs way back when!

@jamesdoctor8079 2 года назад

Awesome video!!

@mandywhorwal642 3 года назад

As long as advertising jingles are necessary their music will be relevant. I always thought Paul's voice fit into the majors and John's into the minors very well, creating what I call a 'bittersweet excitement' when combined. I guess it also helps if you have two great songwriters creating together and/or in direct competition.

@GeoZero 3 года назад

Good stuff, and great analysis. Modern songs have repetitive choruses with the goal to get you to memorize the song due to shorter attention spans. Songs have gotten shorter over the past 25 years but are still around 3:00-3:30 minutes on average and longer than most of the Beatles earlier pop songs since in the 60's they tended to be under 3 minutes.

@jmad627 3 года назад

I just got this LP in vinyl. Only listened to the one record and it sounds great.

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

Which Beatles tune is your favorite?

@manfredfrings1520 3 года назад

"She loves me, yeah yeah yeah"

@jmad627 3 года назад

The one I’m listening to at the moment. ;-)

@AnuGunn 3 года назад

Help

@koba5152 3 года назад

Something

@Vas0011 3 года назад

Glass onion

@andrewsmedley-brown7463 3 года назад

Where's the next episode? Excellent and helpful to me personally.

@unimatrix0019 3 года назад

🙂👍 great video I don't know much about compulsion music however I like to listen to it

@zerberk 5 месяцев назад

Where’s the next video? Loved this one and looked around but didn’t find the next video

@Thewisetone 11 месяцев назад

Excellent video. I recommend that you do an analysis of the band the Wise Tone that has a resemblance to the beatles in many ways

@TheBohemianAngels 2 года назад

I watched the full video and i'm still waiting on how to write a #1 song.

@drix_6927 3 года назад

Great video

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

Many thanks! more to come :D

@andrewkorbel9883 7 месяцев назад

I think that the Beatles had a real edge on creating original music. The music bar was really low and they were in a shipping town with lots of imported culture. Their education did not stifle their creativity; their lack of musical education helped their originality and their producer kept them from flying out of control. There was a way for them to make money with it. They set the creativity bar high! If society doesn’t collapse, their influence will continue.

@somedude5414 3 года назад

Liked for the DT reference. Truth!

@thesuncollective1475 3 года назад

Beatles timeless

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

Thanks for Watching :)

@Erickchicas 8 месяцев назад

28 number ones!

@manfredfrings1520 3 года назад

I suspect that the 60 seconds will come from instrumental/interludes. Maybe some seconds will also come from different tension fills (like electro risers).

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

:O this is a great guess

@philipcone357 3 года назад

With the death of pop music radio you have much more specialization today. You are on ( genre specify) station and no longer have to grab the listeners ears to cut through the commercial chatter in the same way. I do miss the two minute songs of Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly etc.. Today I believe the intros are longer. The songs no longer jump out at you

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

Great point about genre specific playlists. They makes for great references as well. Thanks for watching, philip!

@ricardopitamusic 9 месяцев назад

I think great songs are immortal. Arrangements may change, but the way we are moved by melody and harmony has nothing to do with the time we live in. It's in our structure.

@jedgould5531 2 года назад

Beatles will be important for decades/centuries. Pop music currently has a dearth of melody. People are not motivated to write great songs because music is free and you get what you pay for.

@lawrencenoctor2703 6 месяцев назад

I totally agree thete name and individual names will be added to cannon of imortals.

@audiobackdrops18 3 года назад

Today’s hit songs are heavily influenced by hip hop and have a constant driving loop both musically and how the lyrics are written. Repetition seems to be hypnotizing the listener. I guess that what the Beatles were doing with leading with and repeating their choruses.

@bobbest8627 Месяц назад

The Beatles did just what they did all those years ago… I’m sure they had no idea that 60 and 50 years later people (and some very advanced music people) would be analyzing them. I’m sure Paul and Ringo are just saying let them go at it… It will always be there.

@chip308 3 года назад

Extra time may be wasted on holding out notes in vocals and generally "over singing" stuff with trills etc. Nobody cares what your vocal range is like, when you can't write an interesting melody. The Beatles were undoubtedly kings of melody and structure back then. I thinks it's well known that George Martin was a big influencer of chord choices/ structure as well as the Beatles themselves. Loved the chord choice % table, never thought I'd see something like that. Cheers

@pleiadi666 3 года назад

6:33 that's a second inversion on a cadence, it's ILLEGAL!

@hansvandermeulen5515 Месяц назад

Cal the cops!

@rickdomina 3 года назад

Great video and nice haircut :) Eight Days a Week is in D not A

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

haha thanks! Just had a look, yeah I think your'e right its in D. The bridge changes to A. Good catch!

@stevemoreland-SMCA 3 года назад

Enjoyed your video. Here's a quick comment for you since you asked... Our attention span is very short today, which can explain why Max Martin arrives to his Choruses in the first 30 seconds of his songs usually. One thing that I have noticed about modern pop songs versus older songs from the Beatles era, is the length. With digital production, I see many songs lasting about 4-5 minutes which is quite drastic from the 2-3 minute length they had to stick with due to record length. Sometimes the music is more complex and they need that extra time, but I tend to see that young songwriters will repeat a chorus 2 or 3 times at the end of a song and it starts to sound very redundant.

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

great points! I did a video on why Old Town Road blew up. Every section fits into a SnapChat or IG story. Its made to be shared and it's so short you'd have to listen twice to feel like you got a full dose. Thanks for watching!

@audiobackdrops18 3 года назад

@@LearnAudioEngineering OMG you just blew my mind!!! Thanks

@Raider577 7 месяцев назад

Saw a British short film today from the Sixties called' Mods and Rockers' with songs by the Beatles. The songs were credited McCartney Lennon and Harrison. Rather strange I thought.

@colinpumpernickel2605 Год назад

I can`t get my head round theory but I do know The Beatles could hear in their heads what they wanted before the formal composing and recording. Paul dreamed the melody of Yesterday. Try writing a song without heading down a trite cul de sac. It is bloody hard. The Beatles songs were accessible yet engaging and sophisticated at the same time. No one has come that close although bands like The Bee Gees, The Zombies, The Moody Blues, The Smiths, Fleetwood Mac, Thin Lizzy and ABBA are up there in song writing.

@marykolar7319 2 года назад

I respectfully disagree with the keys you listed for many of their songs. Specifically, "A hard days night" is in G, not C, "Eight days a week" is in D, not A, "Help" is in A, not F#m, "Eleanor Rigby" is in E dorian, not C, and "Lady Madonna" is in A, not D.

@rickdomina 3 года назад

Modern pop songs have much more pre chorus IMO

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

Great guess!

@allancerf9038 10 месяцев назад

Can you implement the data you analzyed, and conclusions you arrived at. Please use that data to write a number one hit.

@LearnAudioEngineering 10 месяцев назад

Doing my best! Thanks for encouraging me. You can check out the latest album I produced. Thanks for watching :D distrokid.com/hyperfollow/lexene/burn-out-2

@troycampbell7408 28 дней назад

I love how you can analyze music but can’t make it. You see that takes genius, talent.

@LearnAudioEngineering 28 дней назад

Bold of you to assume. backburnerstudios.ca/

@WESSERPARAQUAT 3 месяца назад

love me do was not a No 1 it reached no 17 that was it's highest chart position after release

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 месяца назад

Though it was never a #1 in the UK, it did reach #1 in USA, Australia, and New Zealand. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Me_Do

@joefromkokimo 8 месяцев назад

@kevinenglish6859 3 года назад

Today's music is all about the producer. You take 4 chords and you build around it...add here, subtract there. Introduce a new sound, etc. The artist can be anybody off the street with autotune, reverb and delay. The producer is the Wizard of Oz. What is "super cool" now, won't be in 10 years. It's like break dancing....a fad. New stuff will come around and you'll forget all about the music of today, but you will STILL be listening to the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Tom Petty and the music of yesterday.

@glennpagemusic 27 дней назад

Oh wow. I totally disagree about the b section. Sure, there are forgettable b sections. But I would argue that The Beatles, and many songwriters, use the B section to even take the song to equally great heights - but in a slightly different direction. There are indeed "classic" songs whose B sections have generally faded from public memory, but it's more a reflection of the public mainly remembering the chorus hook, as opposed to the B section being outright bad. I would say there are few genuine classics that have a B section that is just "zzzz" or "snore." (Yes, I know that was meant to be somewhat funny.)

@lar57jsy Месяц назад

Calling AABA, Chorus Chorus Bridge Chorus seems completely wrong to me. Should be Verse Verse Chorus Verse I think... then there's a Bridge

@tonytanner8203 10 месяцев назад

The Beatles were somewhat restricted by time simply because of the size of the single record. The Beatles however, did steal a lot of their music material from earlier songs. Nothing wrong with that, because we all do that. Like Michael Jackson, no one could afford the price of legal fees so as to challenge it. I lived through the 60's as a teenager, I loved the Beatles, they were funny, inventive, and entertaining. I was horrified when they weren't able to tour anymore, as I was desperate to see them. Because of them, I studied music, When you do that, you realise the truth. They copied what went before them, and in a very clever way, wrote their music and was able to disguise that truth. Oasis, clearly did the same, when they were found out, they quickly declined, because they didn't have the talent to connect their lyrics to their own harmonies, even though they tried.

@phadrus 2 года назад

The answer is ghost writers and session musicians.

@alanvalido6681 2 года назад

For the Beatles?or for almost all pop music today?George Martin helped with the arrangements but I think the writing was done by Lennon-McCartney and Harrison towards the end.

@MehdiHusain 2 года назад

I can’t wait for an AI to make all that heavy lifting.

@bobf.5538 3 года назад

Bet they wrote them one at a time

@LearnAudioEngineering 3 года назад

Bet Paul would claim they were nocturnal emissions because they came in his dreams. Thanks for watching! ;)

@janisblease7488 5 месяцев назад

Please Check out Theadore Adorno and the Frankfort School, you will be amazed.

@abc456f 9 месяцев назад

Yesterday has a bridge, not AABA. AABACAAB.

@GaryPfingstl 8 месяцев назад

Modern songs suck. Very few songs ring the bell that i want to listen to them again.

@EnwardSnowman 8 месяцев назад

Easy. Marketing and payola blitz. Money made this band

@bob44044 3 года назад

The Beatles music will be relevant in another 50 years for the same reason they've been relevant the last 50 years. Todays music sucks and most likely will get worse.

@nallekarhu7994 2 года назад

Their best work was when they had made their money and were free to experiment as artists , formulaic music is for people with low attention span, I am the walrus, now there's a song .

@jhaduvala Год назад

Percentages tell you nothing.

@stardustshakedown Месяц назад

Ghost writing happens kids.

@hedworm 10 месяцев назад

Modern radio/popular music is horribly emotional. Its absolutely unbearable. Songs are also all so predictable now. With radio music, I can predict 90% of melodic structure upon hearing a song for the first time. Unlike 20th century music, Modern music is stagnant. It will not go down in history. Its too commercial, soulless, and written by morons with a good singing voices. How are the masses not sick of it yet!?