Comments on: Great Visualizers: Mike Deal charts The Beatles

By: Cecily Milloy

Cecily Milloy — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:42:47 +0000

Thank you, Beatles!

By: Alex Temple

Alex Temple — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:35:51 +0000

The notes B# and Cb don’t exist only in music theory, but in actual notated music — lots of it. For example, the notes of a Gb major scale are:
Gb – Ab – Bb – Cb – Db – Eb – F
You can’t write the Cb as a B natural, because then the interval between do and fa would be incorrectly spelled as an augmented third rather than a perfect fourth, the interval between fa and sol would be incorrectly spelled as a diminished third rather than a major second, and so on.

Notating a piece in the key of Cb Major would be a bit silly, though, since just about any musician on earth would find the equivalent B Major easier to read.

And a note to the maintainer of the site: major keys aren’t any more “harmonic” than minor keys, and these key distributions don’t tell us anything about how “poppy” the songs sound. “Please Please Me” has an abundance of songs in E Major, sure, but E Major doesn’t sound any “poppier” than any other major key. What this really tells us is that the Beatles’ guitar chops weren’t as advanced as they would become, so they wrote most of their songs in keys that are easy to play on the guitar.

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By: Joe Mahon

Joe Mahon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:12:20 +0000

Max Sang wrote: “Iâ€™m already suspicious about the accuracy of this. The â€œsong keysâ€ graphic contains the non-existent B#/Cb. There is no key, or note, called B# or Cb (B to C is a semitone). It looks cool, butâ€¦”

It actually says B/Cb. And while it sounds odd and counterintuitive, the key of C flat does exist in music theory.

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