And I Love Her

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Breathe deep and chill out with this beautiful, relaxing, tender love song. My cover of the Beatles' And I Love Her.

My special thanks to Ryohei Kanayama, who has created exceptionally authentic instrumental arrangements for all of the Beatles' songs.

While And I Love Her is, at its core, a simple, short, sweet song, it has many innovative elements that make it interesting musically. From Paul McCartney's beautiful melody and chord sequence (the backbone of the song); to George Harrison's 4-note guitar riff that opens and closes the song; to the "middle eight" section that nicely complements the verse; to the Latin-influenced arrangement (bongos, claves — i.e., wooden blocks, and Spanish-style guitar arpeggios); to George Martin's musically satisfying key change; to the chord that ends the song, which has been alternating between a major key (F major) and a minor key (D minor), and finally resolves it in a major final chord (F major). That final chord (being major rather than minor) is what is known as a Picardy Third, a musical "happy ending" whose use in traditional music dates back to the Renaissance.