Listening Guide A Day in the Life by the Beatles (1967) Tempo: 76 beats per minute, 4 beats per bar, but B section twice as fast Form: Sections in unequal lengths, ordered AAABA Features: Even beat subdivisions Drums support rhythms, no backbeat Instruments include strummed acoustic guitar, electric bass, piano, drums, and, before the B section, a forty-piece orchestra recorded and overdubbed four times to create a sound mass End with a long extension of a echo of the final piano chord Lyrics: A sections include various different images described by John Lennon, B section about ordinary life that includes drug use by Paul McCartney 7-6