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- MaxMWood, on 11/08/2008, -10/+301See the poll on the right? Tick Other and type in "Rick Astley". Just for ***** and giggles.
- FirstSnowJ, on 11/08/2008, -2/+165Haha, very interesting article. I didn't know nobody knew what chord it was...I love that song.
- steve9924, on 11/08/2008, -11/+141This is actually pretty cool. I play guitar & always played a Gm sus7 for that chord but it never sounded right... even looked it up in a lot of tab sites, etc.. turns out none of them were right. Interesting that it finally took a mathematician to figure it out.
That comic is pretty good too. - pistonhonda, on 11/08/2008, -3/+109(Beatles + XKCD + Fourier transformations) * Digg user = hard-on.
- username7410, on 11/08/2008, -4/+90Nobody thought of asking George Martin? I'm sure he could have pointed out that he was striking on chord on the piano... mystery solved.
- DiscoLando, on 11/08/2008, -0/+85Now this is the kind of thing that makes me love Digg. Could we get more of this, and less Huffington Post, please?
- wontstoptalking, on 11/08/2008, -3/+82Done.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+55Neither he nor The Beatles knew for sure or remembered anything about that chord.. They were playing around in the studio and that was just something that stuck out on tape and made it to the beginning of the song. It was an accident they weren't able to recreate properly themselves or else we'd have known what it was decades ago.
- Scira, on 11/08/2008, -3/+56Done.
- Zaeyde, on 11/08/2008, -3/+52Done.
- terracottapai, on 11/08/2008, -1/+41RTFA
- username7410, on 11/08/2008, -0/+38Good info, thanks. They should have pointed that out in article.
- qubitz, on 11/08/2008, -2/+38dugg for fourier transforms
- Autodidaddict, on 11/08/2008, -3/+38and he used his iphone to calculate it while wearing an obama t-shirt too!
- boojoy, on 11/08/2008, -1/+35This is really interesting. According to my Beatles memory, "Hard Day's Night" was written very quickly - overnight actually - at the request of the people making the film. They needed an opening track and Lennon wrote the bulk of it (John Lennon wrote most of the Hard Day's Night soundtrack, apparently).
I'd always heard that they didn't want to open it like "Can't Buy Me Love" - just going right out of the gate - so George (Harrison, not Martin) accidentally found the chord (or a portion of it) on his guitar and that was that. One would have to think that Martin set up the complicated arrangement of all of them except Ringo, since none of the Beatles had any formal musical training and relied on Martin for anything technical like arranging string sections.
Great article, and the PDF is well worth the read, too. - rockrapdude, on 11/08/2008, -3/+37And done.
- xenzo, on 11/08/2008, -3/+35Done
- boris4ka, on 11/08/2008, -2/+34Done.
- sggrissom, on 11/08/2008, -0/+31It's bizarre to think that nobody knew what it was. This story is pretty incredible, it's awesome that he figured it out.
- lobasuu, on 11/08/2008, -2/+29You should really look more into it.
- TreatsTheBear, on 11/08/2008, -2/+28Two versions of the chord:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8EiKpjgz98
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQwwqajZXD8
Not sure which one they're talking about, but I think it's the first. - wontstoptalking, on 11/08/2008, -6/+31Familiar?
http://xkcd.com/26/ - MrJagil, on 11/08/2008, -3/+27This is worth a digg-story all by itself!
Also, may i mention, i am from Denmark, and since Rick Astleys wife is danish, he is performing near residence. Yes, my fellow diggers, i will be able to see Rick Astley perfom IRL.
For reference, here is his greatest hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsjYg5xh2fQ - rotundo, on 11/08/2008, -1/+25Nearly every guitarist would understand that chord to mean you include the minor third and add in the fourth and seventh. It may not fly if one is a professionally trained musician, but we low-life guitar pop people have our own musical ebonics, I suppose :)
The only ambiguity I see there is whether the 7th should be major or minor. I'd guess it to be a minor in keeping with the third, but I should pick up my guitar and test it by ear to be sure. - ElAmo, on 11/08/2008, -0/+23Now at 63% other.... i wonder how many of those are Rick Astley.
- nathanskinner89, on 11/08/2008, -0/+21The second is just in a different key. Possibly just sped up.
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+21rick polled
- diggnidy, on 11/08/2008, -0/+21Done.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+20Done. 73.
Before long there'll be no point having online polls of any kind. MWAHAHAHA!!!! - OutlawSundown, on 11/08/2008, -0/+20Guessing you didn't read the article because it wasn't one instrument that created the sound.
- dwninjungleland, on 11/08/2008, -1/+19For your 15th birthday, I'll send you a mixtape.
- 8BitGaming, on 11/08/2008, -0/+18Done.
- leamanc, on 11/08/2008, -0/+17Yes, the Beatles were incredible. So were Pink Floyd in the first 15 years or so of their existence. But they're the only two bands you find incredible?!? There's a lot more to find out there.
- elscorcho717, on 11/08/2008, -9/+25Gmsus7 isn't a chord. By definition a sus chord replaces the third in the chord with the 2nd or 4th scale degree. Therefore, a chord can't simultaneously be minor and a sus chord. Furthermore, simply writing sus after the root doesn't specify which of the two suspensions you are using, and they serve distinct functions.
- Conguent, on 11/08/2008, -6/+22I can't not digg something about music theory.
- inactive, on 11/09/2008, -0/+14All your poll are belong to us.
- geoboy, on 11/08/2008, -1/+14This is one erection that's going to last me more than four hours.
- fquednau, on 11/08/2008, -0/+12I would have thought the beatles knew? Or did part of the secret indeed die with John? Funny stuff...
- 4321234, on 11/08/2008, -0/+12.DAED SI LUAP
- Napiertt, on 11/08/2008, -0/+12Elections are over!!!
- ohokjonnyb, on 11/09/2008, -0/+11Done.
- zbarnett, on 11/08/2008, -0/+11Done
- crickey23, on 11/08/2008, -0/+11Now that I know about the mystery piano chord hiding within the guitar and bass chords, I can hear it stick out more now. I didn't hear it earlier when I started to read the article. It's funny how you look for things that you thought weren't there after you learn about them.
- mystdragon333, on 11/08/2008, -0/+11Done
- str1fe, on 11/08/2008, -1/+12Done!
I'm a musician 13%
I'm an audio enthusiast 6%
I just like reading this stuff 8%
Other: *73%*
And I'm willing to bet that, at minimum, 90% of those Others are Rick Astley. - wontstoptalking, on 11/09/2008, -0/+10Look what we did to the comment section of that poll:
http://answers.polldaddy.com/viewPoll.aspx?view=re ... - wild, on 11/08/2008, -3/+12Really, it took 40 years to figure out that was a piano? It sounds so obvious.
- Akaziel, on 11/08/2008, -2/+11Why would the guy who wrote A Song Of Ice And Fire know about Beatles Chords?
::ducks:: - beansy, on 11/08/2008, -0/+9FFT FTW
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