Paul McCartney's Blackbird is well-known as a hauntingly beautiful tribute to the American Civil Rights Movement, but it's not the first song you might think of if you're looking for complex harmony. It sounds pretty simple and straightforward, but beneath that surface lies some very strange, counterintuitive choices that, to be blunt, probably shouldn't actually work. But they do, because Paul does a brilliant job disguising them, making them wrong but not TOO wrong. This week, we're looking at how exactly he does that and, perhaps more importantly, why. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/12tonevideos Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/bCTDaj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/12tonevideos Twitter: https://twitter.com/12tonevideos Email: [email protected] Last: https://youtu.be/L7ZPMARb4KA Blackbird: https://youtu.be./RDxfjUEBT9I Functional Harmony video: https://youtu.be/eurOGIiArHI Secondary Dominants video: https://youtu.be/f0Fng6X9Yl0 Modal Interchange video: https://youtu.be/hsGuiPuwkZ8 Modes video: https://youtu.be/NIIQKMbHSrI Transcriptions used: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/t/the_beatles/blackbird_ver5_tab.htm http://www.e-chords.com/chords/the-beatles/blackbird https://www.scribd.com/doc/63821343/Blackbird-Lead-Sheet-With-Melody Huge thanks to our gold-level Patreon supporters: Ron Jones Jill Jones Susan Jones Howard Levine Elaine Pratt Ken Arnold Nakarin: https://www.youtube.com/user/jerom09666 Michael Deakin Mark Yachnin And thanks as well to Henry Reich, José N., Logan Jones, Eugene Bulkin, Jody, Abram Thiessen, Anna Work, Oliver, Jc Bq, Adam Neely, and Jon I! Your support helps make 12tone even better! Also, thanks to Jareth Arnold and Inés Dawson for proofreading the script to make sure this all makes sense hopefully!