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"Hey Jude": About that Na Na Na Chorus
In "Hey Jude," the "na na na" chorus features a chromatic chord that lasts only one slow bar (the second bar) of each four-bar iteration of the chorus. But, from a harmonic perspective, it’s that chromatic chord that grabs the listener’s ear.
In a chord map involving a chromatic chord, you might wonder where exactly to put the chromatic chord (the chord F major in the above example). As you can see, it goes outside the harmonic circle, but there’s no hard and fast rule as to exactly where. For visual clarity, the best place is right between the chord at which the progression exits the key (the exit chord is G major in the above example) and the chord at which the progression returns to the key (the return chord is C major in the above example).