‘Yeah , Yeah , Yeah!’ - reharmonisation of a motif
The deceptive simplicity of the G- F# -E line in the ‘yeah, yeah yeah’ refrain can now be appreciated in its harmonic context. In fact,
Incredibly, the result is that, in the first 12 seconds of the song, The Beatles have managed to use 11 of the 12 notes in music -something that most free-jazzers would be pushed to do.