The songs kicks off on harpsichord and has layered vocals of Paul McCartney George Harrison and John Lennon.
According to John Lennon, the song's close musical resemblance to the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was no coincidence: "Yoko was playing Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' on the piano ... I said, 'Can you play those chords backwards?', and wrote 'Because' around them.
Some lovely use of chords starting on Dm D#m7b5 G# A C#m A7 A13 D/F# Daug
This progression is intro verses and outro
When the bridge switches to F# it lifts the song before moving to G#7
If Queen had Bohemian Rhapsody The Eagles Hotel California and Led Zeppelin Stairway To Heaven the. Bowie had Life On Mars
I’ve never covered a song with so many chords and interesting progression is master class in song writing.
From the 1971 album Hunky Dory with Rick Wakeman on keyboard and Mick Ronson on Guitar.
A great challenge to play on acoustic guitar but this tutorial hopefully makes strumming on guitar a lot easier. Watch out for diminished and augmented chords as well as normal chords with altered bass notes
