The Beatles 'Song Let It Be'
When I was growing up in a foreign country, I remembered my dad actually playing this piece by The Beatles on repeat. The song, “Let It Be” was one of his favorite songs to listen to and I also had quickly gotten accustomed to it. “Let It Be” is one of the songs of multiple albums that The Beatles have notoriously won nominations to awards being that they were highly regarded and arguably debated as the most influential idols of the rock era. This specific song actually had come from Paul McCartney’s dream when he explained about his song’s origin. He states that during the autumn of 1968, The Beatles were going through a harsh time amidst of a potential band break up. While going through struggles Paul had resorted to drugs, alcohol, and partying.
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The song begins with a light piano solo, as the basic ensemble joins in that add guitar solos and small gaps where no one would play in order to build up for a grand finale. The song also features solo sections of guitars, the brass, maracas, cymbals, and bass to provide a nice flow of different transitions for the song. “Let It Be” as a song provides an emotional and earnestness melodic thrust with a laid back rhythmic flow. With a key in C Major and a meter of 4/4, the song illustrates a genius piece revolving around intro, verses, refrains, instrumentals, coda, and an outro. It provides a quaint and diatonic style where it helps produce a restrained flow of melody and harmony. With sneaky appearances of rhyming schemes, the band also uses alliteration based on similar consonants. The song includes a C Ionian mode also known commonly as the “major scale”. The song consists of tunes where they are mostly all pentatonic, where 1, 3, 5, 6 / C, D, E, G, A. When we review the melodies for both the verse and refrain, the final phrases are almost identical. The harmony of this song uses four distinctive chords (I, IV, V, AND VI). Giving a blues type of vibe, from beginning to the end, the song exemplifies sophisticated ornamentation techniques. Throughout the chord progression, “Let It Be” shows off a modal
The song begins with a light piano solo, as the basic ensemble joins in that add guitar solos and small gaps where no one would play in order to build up for a grand finale. The song also features solo sections of guitars, the brass, maracas, cymbals, and bass to provide a nice flow of different transitions for the song. “Let It Be” as a song provides an emotional and earnestness melodic thrust with a laid back rhythmic flow. With a key in C Major and a meter of 4/4, the song illustrates a genius piece revolving around intro, verses, refrains, instrumentals, coda, and an outro. It provides a quaint and diatonic style where it helps produce a restrained flow of melody and harmony. With sneaky appearances of rhyming schemes, the band also uses alliteration based on similar consonants. The song includes a C Ionian mode also known commonly as the “major scale”. The song consists of tunes where they are mostly all pentatonic, where 1, 3, 5, 6 / C, D, E, G, A. When we review the melodies for both the verse and refrain, the final phrases are almost identical. The harmony of this song uses four distinctive chords (I, IV, V, AND VI). Giving a blues type of vibe, from beginning to the end, the song exemplifies sophisticated ornamentation techniques. Throughout the chord progression, “Let It Be” shows off a modal