File:The guitar solo from "Taxman" by the Beatles, April 1966.ogg

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The_guitar_solo_from_"Taxman"_by_the_Beatles,_April_1966.ogg(Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 14 s, 73 kbps, file size: 125 KB)

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Description The guitar solo from "Taxman" by the Beatles, April 1966
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The author is the Beatles; the copyright holder is EMI Records Ltd.
Source (WP:NFCC#4) The 2009 remaster of Revolver (CD)
Date of publication April-June 1966
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Revolver (Beatles album)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To explicate with an audio sample what cannot be conveyed with prose alone:
  • The musicologist Kenneth Womack characterises the solo as "like nothing else in the Beatles' corpus to date; for that matter, it hardly bears any resemblance to anything in the history of recorded music." He credits it with "announc[ing] a sweeping shift in the essential nature" of the Beatles' sound.(Womack, Kenneth (2007). Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-1746-6. Page 136)
  • McCartney's active bassline features glissandi that are reminiscent of Motown's James Jamerson. He also performed the song's Indian-styled lead guitar solo, which spans two octaves and utilises the Dorian mode.(Everett, Walter (1999). The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512941-0. Page 49)
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Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) The file is 13.833 seconds long with fades in and out, which is less than 10% of the original 2 minutes and 38 seconds.
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The sample is of a reduced non-commercial quality 22050Hz and 73Kbps.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Revolver (Beatles album)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_guitar_solo_from_%22Taxman%22_by_the_Beatles,_April_1966.oggtrue

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current21:04, 27 May 201414 s (125 KB)GabeMc (talk | contribs)Better fades
20:41, 27 May 2014No thumbnail16 s (145 KB)GabeMc (talk | contribs)Uploading an excerpt from a non-free work using File Upload Wizard
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