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chord for several more beats or an extra bar. Second, repeat a change within the turnaround several times before you
proceed to the next one.
'Tracks Of My Tears' exquisitely stretches its three chords like this:

IIVIVV

CF FG

'Heat Treatment' is based on I VI IV V but repeats the I-VI change before IV and V:

IVIIVIIVIIVV

C Am C Am C Am F G

'When You're Young And In Love' plays about with the latter chords:

I VI IV V IV V

CAm F G F G

You can displace and stretch at the same time – and the turnaround no longer sounds as four-square. Take 'My Sweet
Lord', where a I VI II V has metamorphosed into this:

II V(x4) I VI I VI

Dm G C Am C Am

If we assume 'Step Into My World' to be in F# minor, we get a I VII VI IV stretched to this:

I VII I VII VI IV VI IV

F#m E F#m E D Bm D Bm

'Cum On Feel The Noize' takes I VI II V and uses the same repeat approach:

I VI I VI II V II V

G Em G Em Am D Am D

Stretching by Harmonic Variation
You can also stretch by harmonic variation. This means lengthening a sequence by changing the form of a chord
from straight major or minor to seventh, sixth, etc. The most common harmonic variation is probably when a major
chord moves through its major and dominant seventh chord forms: I Imaj7 17. This is satisfying to the ear because
the root note can be heard falling (on a C chord) from C to B to Bb. After that, it can either return to C or fall to A
and be harmonized by an F, A, Am or Dm chord (or something more exotic). This happens in 'Something' v, 'Bell
Bottom Blues' ch, 'Pyjamarama' and 'Everybody's Talkin'. In 'Jesamine' and 'Up The Ladder To The Roof', the intro
progression is I 17 IV IVm. I. In 'I'm Living In Shame', it's I Imaj7 17 IV IVm.
The equivalent on a minor chord, which is Em Em/maj7 Em7, can be heard in 'Cry Baby Cry' (where it keeps going
to Em6 and then C), 'Got To Get You Into My Life', and 'Michelle'. Augmented chords can create similar effects: D
D+ D6 D7 (where the ear hears a rise from A to A#, B and C).