I hate doing bar counts, it's just the matter of sitting at your laptop counting 1,2,3,4, and having word up and clicking a key whenever you hit four, then counting whatever has come up on word. It's come up with 91, 6 during the introduction which is repeated through the song a couple of times, the whole song is in an Ostinato pattern which is popular throughout any song you find in any genre. 8 bars through the verse which is then repeated and then comes the chorus which is 6 bars long, solo is 12 bars then the Coda comes where McCartney entertains us with his dog impressions whilst John is cheering him on to do them, this is 30 bars long.
The verse chords have a bar each;
And the chorus chords have half a bar each with the chords BM, BM#5, BM6, BM7, EM, EM#5, EM6, EM7, BM, EM. And of course John plays the solo during the Coda. Also this is played in a minor scale.
The instrumentation of the song is a piano played through the song and making that all important introduction which is joined by a guitar, and Ringo on his drums mainly playing the snares and also John playing the tambourines, high hats and kick drum - the odd tom is in there too. There's obviously vocals in there by Lennon with McCartney and the odd call and response between them both during the Coda, also McCartney does the backing vocals during the chorus though when the line 'You can talk to me, you can talk to me, you can talk to me, if you're lonely you can talk to me' Lennon's vocal is double tracked. The song is a total of 108 bpm, there are no changes in the bpm which is a popular idea through pop music, rock music and other genres that the Beatles can be associated with.
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