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

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Description	The guitar solo from "Taxman" by the Beatles, April 1966
Author or copyright owner	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)
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Audio file is irreplaceable. No free alternative exists.
Not replaceable with textual coverage because (WP:NFCC#1)	Prose alone would not serve the same encyclopedic purpose as prose with an accompanying audio sample.
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.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The sample is of a reduced non-commercial quality 22050Hz and 73Kbps.
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