Notes on Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Intro:

• G major
• opens with 10secs of instrumental tuning and audience noises
• opens with 4 bars of rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass guitar and drums 
• drum kit playing a variation of a standard drum backbeat
• rhythm guitar chord progression: A7, C7, G7
• bass guitar playing repeated quavers

Verse One:

• 8 bars long (AAB)
• Homophonic texture
• punctuated lead guitar chords on beats 2 and 4 (syncopation)
• rhythm guitar playing standard strummed pattern
• vocal melody is made up of repeated semiquavers and a flattened 7th (F natural). it features syncopation and is panned

Interlude One:

• F major modulation
• five bars of french horns accompanied by drums, bass guitar and rhythm guitar
• uses panning, reverb, audience sounds and classical counterpoint
• ends on a dominant 7th chord
• D7 motif seen in upper horn part and repeated in diminution in the second horn part

Chorus One:

• 12 bars long of harmonised vocals with guitar and drums and horns at the end
• anacrusis start in the vocal line
• standard drum beat with hi-hats
• vocals augment
• descending french horn D7 in inversion

Interlude Two:

• 3 bars of sustained french horn chords followed by 2 bars of quaver movement

Verse Two:

• same as verse one, with different lyrics

Outro:

• two bars on the chord of IV with a descending bass line