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4.06pm
5 February 2010
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For me, the trick with this song – the one obstacle that made it less-than-easy – was the G-augmented chord that John added to embellish the end of each line (“my, oh my”, “butterflies”, etc.) Even after 20 years of playing, I've never found a good way to voice that G-aug chord that didn't involve clunky fretting and twisted hand cramps.
The secret, once again clearly revealed in the Anthology out-takes, is John's use of the capo. The song is in C, but he clips on the capo at the 5th fret and moves it into the key of G (a nice, easy key to play in). This takes all of the effort out of that augmented chord, because now it's a D-aug, which is a breeze to play (this diagram assumes no capo):
EADGBE
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The chord progression, now with all of those wonderfully high-end notes ringing out, thanks to the capo, goes:
Intro: G – Em
Verse: G – Bm – F – C – D – Daug
Tag (“Haven't I the right …”): C – D – G – Em
Chorus: F – D – G – Em – F – D – C – D
Not a bit like Cagney.
4.25pm
14 October 2009
Offline Reading through Everett's book he mentions that capo's were used quite a bit.
"If we feel our heads starting to swell.....we just look at Ringo!"
9.12pm
29 September 2010
Offline PeterWeatherby said:
For me, the trick with this song – the one obstacle that made it less-than-easy – was the G-augmented chord that John added to embellish the end of each line (“my, oh my”, “butterflies”, etc.) Even after 20 years of playing, I've never found a good way to voice that G-aug chord that didn't involve clunky fretting and twisted hand cramps.
The secret, once again clearly revealed in the Anthology out-takes, is John's use of the capo. The song is in C, but he clips on the capo at the 5th fret and moves it into the key of G (a nice, easy key to play in). This takes all of the effort out of that augmented chord, because now it's a D-aug, which is a breeze to play (this diagram assumes no capo):
EADGBE
———–
xx0332
The chord progression, now with all of those wonderfully high-end notes ringing out, thanks to the capo, goes:
Intro: G – Em
Verse: G – Bm – F – C – D – Daug
Tag (“Haven't I the right …”): C – D – G – Em
Chorus: F – D – G – Em – F – D – C – D
Cool! Can't wait to get home to try that! 
Thanks!
