The harpsichord repeats the descending chromatic line in the F minor key in swing beat. The Fm key melody in the verse is tinged both by blues flat 7th, and dorian mode raised 6th notes. The optimistic word “ Fixing” here is sung to a piano F major chord (bass now also on track one playing an F note) but on “ hole” a C aug chord (which includes a G# note that is a III (3rd) note in the thus predicted Fm scale) (bass now playing a C or V (5th) note in both the F major and F minor scales) pivoting towards the Fm pentatonic minor scale on the more negative mood of “ rain gets in“. The first eight-measure verse begins with Paul’s vocals on track three (“ I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in“). On track one George Martin opens on harpsichord briefly playing a descending chromatic line (resembling “ Michelle“) in a staccato-like pattern 4/4 time, but Ringo’s hi-hat in the final measure of the introduction introduces a swing beat that stays for the remainder of the song. The song alternates between the key of Fm (in verse) and F (in bridge) in basically 4/4 time with a structure of Intro -> Verse -> Verse -> Bridge -> Verse -> Verse (Guitar Solo) -> Bridge -> Verse -> Outro (fadeout). They said, ‘Who’s this?’ I said, ‘He’s Jesus Christ.’ We had a bit of a giggle over that…But that was it. So I said, ‘I’ve got to go to a session but if you promise to be very quiet and just sit in a corner, you can come.’ So he did, he came to the session and he did sit very quietly and I never saw him after that. We used to get a lot of people who were maybe insecure or going through emotional breakdowns or whatever. So I gave him a cup of tea and we just chatted and I asked, ‘Why do you think you are Jesus?’ There were a lot of casualties about then. But if he is, I’m not going to be the one to turn him away. I said, ‘Well, you’d better come in then.’ I thought, Well, it probably isn’t. This guy said, ‘I’m Jesus Christ.’ I said, ‘Oop,’ slightly shocked. If they were boring I would say, ‘Sorry, no,’ and they generally went away. A guy arrived at my front gate and I said, ‘Yes? Hello’ because I always used to answer it to everyone. Paul has also stated about the recording: “ The funny thing about that was the night when we were going to record it, at Regent Sound Studios at Tottenham Court Road, I brought a guy who was Jesus. The lead vocal was recorded at the same time as the rhythm track, a change from their post-1964 approach of overdubbing the vocal. Overdubs were recorded on at EMI studios Abbey Road. This was the first time that the Beatles used a British studio other than Abbey Road for an EMI recording. Regent was used because EMI’s Abbey Road studios were not available that night. The first of two recording sessions for the song was at Regent Sound Studio in London on 9 February 1967 in three takes. In a 1968 interview, McCartney said that the song was “ about the hole in the road where the rain gets in, a good old analogy-the hole in your make-up which lets the rain in and stops your mind from going where it will.” He went on to say that the following lines were about fans who hung around outside his home day and night, and whose actions he found off-putting: “ Fixing a Hole” is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and recorded by the Beatles, featured on their 1967 album Sgt.
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