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@The Hole Got Fixed every chord is not equally easy on piano especially when transition from other chords and incorporating inversions. 

My brother and I were just talking about how in the early days they loved to use E, and bounce from a B7 to an F#7 for the middle eight. 

It reminds me of Pauls story about the B7 from the anthology movies. 

Bar chords always are the same fingering on every position. With piano, you’ve got to remember which parts of the scale are white keys and black keys. Guitar is much easier to learn the basic keys on because it is the same in every key.

Flyingbrians said
Interesting question and one i’ve wondered about myself.

I think the main reason was because both keys fit their vocal ranges well but there are probably other reasons.

Lots of composers of all genres tend to have their ‘favourite’ key, simply because they either like the tonality of the key or they feel just comfortable composing with it. 

I wouldn’t say E major and A major are uncommon in popular music but they’re definetely less common then C or G major. E major is less common then A major but still generally more common then the sharp/flat chords. 

I don’t think the difficulty of playing chords played a factor in which key they chose, particularly on guitar. The Beatles were experienced musicians so that shouldn’t have held them back too much.  

This chart gives a pretty interesting perspective: https://insights.spotify.com/u…..n-spotify/  

Billy Joel and Elton John love to use F major. I see them going from Bb to F/A all the time. Paul does it in Maybe I’m Amazed as well. Rarely will a guitarist use the key of F. 

Ahhh Girl said
Would someone be able to work up a list of all the songs the Beatles did in each key? At least put a viable straw man out there for a key and see if there is agreement?

Perhaps we could have a list of each Beatles lead vocal songs and which keys they are in.  

Ahhh Girl, Today is my day off. I’ll peruse the White Book and make a list of songs and keys.