Mystery of Beatles chord ‘solved’
It is one of the most famous sounds in the history of rock and roll – the clanging, opening chord at the start of the 1964 Beatles hit “A Hard Day’s Night” is instantly recognisable, MSN News reported. Yet, as many musicians have discovered, every attempt to reproduce it seems to sound wrong. A British mathematician now claims to have got closer than anyone else to solving the decades old musical mystery. Dr Kevin Houston, from the University of Leeds, used sophisticated software to split up the sound on the record into its component frequencies. Presented on a computer screen, a pattern was revealed showing which notes were most prominent. daily times monitor
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