Expert: Elizabeth - 8/6/2007

Question
is there any beatles songs played at 7 8

Answer
The short answer to this is: no.  Here's why.

The Beatles never learned how to read music, and that probably led to them being more free with phrasing.  That did lead to a lot more mixed meter.  So if there were measures in 7/8, there probably wouldn't be more than one at a time.

The other thing with the Beatles never learning how to read music was that they never wrote it down, either.  There is a huge compilation, "The Beatles Complete Scores," published by Hal Leonard, but that's just transcription, and I happen to disagree with many of the complex meter choices they made in it.  Even then, there weren't any measures of 7/8.  In fact, there weren't many measure in 7 at all, and even then you could count them as a measure in 3 followed by a measure in 4.

So even through there are some pretty interesting time signature passages in the Beatles' canon, none are in 7/8.  Thanks for taking your time to ask me a question.