Every Beatles Song with an AUGMENTED CHORD in 3 Minutes



George Harrison called it the "naughty chord," but it was certainly nice for the Beatles. They used augmented chords in 23 different songs:
I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
Oh Darling!
It Won't Be Long
Ask Me Why
Glad All Over
Something
From Me to You
It's Only Love
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Till There Was You
Michelle
Fixing a Hole
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Real Love
I Am the Walrus
You Know What to Do
Got to Get You Into My Life
A Taste of Honey
And Your Bird Can Sing
Don't Ever Change
All My Loving
Like Dreamers Do
I'll Be On My Way

FOR BEATLE GEEKS WHO HAVE READ THIS FAR: Only 4 of the 23 are covers (including "A Taste of Honey," which I inadvertently left out of this medley, and "Don't Ever Change," which has *three different* augmented chords). These songs clearly inspired some of the early Lennon/McCartney originals that followed.  In fact, many of the songs John & Paul gave away also had prominent augmented chords, including the two original demos on the iTunes 1963 Bootleg release: "Bad to Me" by Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, and "I'm in Love" by The Fourmost.

I guess this puts to bed the myth that the early Beatles only wrote primitive dopey love songs. Find a primitive dopey love song today that contains an augmented chord! Or a guitarist who knows how to play it!

Some of these might technically be called minor major 7ths -- but if it contains an augmented triad, it's augmented. And the chord shapes shown are what I play; not to be taken as exact representations of what the Beatles played, or what a Mel Bay guitar book might teach you about augmented chords. Plenty of other YouTube videos can show you how to properly play them, and I highly encourage you to seek them out!

EDIT: Commenters have pointed out some songs I overlooked:
All I've Got to Do (intro chord)
I'm So Tired ("I wonder should I call you")
Old Brown Shoe ("won't be the same now")
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Feel free to submit your own!


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