I just think those guys had these basic song ideas, showed them to George Martin and then he showed them all those fancy chords. None of them had any musical training.
Sorry but that’s ridiculous! Why is it so hard to deny that those kids had a healthy appetite towards creativity and figured things out instinctively. Producers back then basically told the engineer when to hit the record button. Some were decent at writing string and horn arrangements. In the Beatles’ case - orchestration was most likely suggested/dictated by the composer of the song and then GM notated it properly for the musicians to read/record.
YOU ARE STILL DEEPLY MISSED, STEVIE!! IT'S BEEN TOO LONG!! YOU GUYS WERE ALWAYS AMAZING, BUT YOU WERE ALSO SUCH A GREAT SOBRIETY SUCCESS STORY!! ME TOO!.....BUT KEEP WATCH, OK?? SOUL💞SOUL, ALWAYS!💗😘 Thank You For Posting, Mike Pachelli!
Mike, listen, I always thought you were amazing. This is above & beyond. May I ask, how you deconstrucked these songs before obvious separation were available? Also, I've just purchased a Epi Casino. What are the settings for Here, There & Everywhere? X
Another fabulous, easy to follow lesson, Mike! I've been playing that song for 50 years, but never felt competent to even try the intro. With your explanation, demonstration, and charts, I did it! I even transposed it into G! You fill the world with goodness via your music❤❤ thank you so much!
Great chord melody observations, stop with the metronome, it's distracting, you don't need it your timing is good already. Your Gibson J160 e sounds great. Beatles history, fantastic.
Dear Mike, I‘d like to take the opportunity to thank you for your great enthusiastic and professional work! I love the Beatles since childhood, they changed the world with their great music and attitude. It is like a dream that I‘m now able to learn by your lessons how to play these songs - even The End. I always thought this comes directly from heaven, how can somebody play like this? Great fun - great thank you!!
@telepluck - I haven't forgotten it - but "All I've Got To Do" is NOT on the PLEASE PLEASE ME album. So that's why it's not included in this lesson. Plus the chord you are referring to is actually an E aug9/11. Here's the link to my lesson on it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q-mgqCC3CsU.html
YOU are VERY GOOD! Enjoyed this immensely! I noticed that George's licks in isolation sound much like Joe Walsh (Eagles & Ringo's brother in-law) in James Gang. I wonder if Joe was influenced by George.
I never realized there were such detailed nuances to John's rhythm in this. Have to buy the chart again! Want to get it exact rather than just playing the chords. 😉 It would be nice if you had tabs for the bass parts too (other than the special lessons you have for certain bass parts) and the keyboards for this one, but I know that's a lot to ask.
JL’spart is fascinating - moving from impatience to ‘thoughtful impatience’. Interesting that the out of tune low E on the Ricky always sounded like chorus effect - probably the mix with GH’s more stable tuning ?
In hindsight sight it’s cheeky at best, crass at worst…”I want to hold your hand”. And we so fell for it. But for me personally, it was a balm to my broken heart. My folks uprooted from corny Kansas City to Alhambra and then got divorced. I hated them, I hated California. I didn’t know anybody. KRLA had the record on such a tight cycle it would come on every morning while I was getting ready for school. They sounded joyful. It could get something positive in my day. If it was a trick on me I am grateful.
I love all of your song analyses, Mike, and this one is special because of the inclusion of Jim McCarty. This isn’t my favorite Yardbirds song - that would be Heart Full of Soul - but this has one of my all-time favorite drum bits! Every time I hear it, I have to stop whatever I’m doing and listen for Jim’s little hi-hat figure at the end of the bridges going back to the verses. This is the only time I become an ‘air drummer’, and have to tap that out in front of me. (I’m normally a mediocre guitar player, but I excel on the drums for. this small part!) Anyway, thanks again to both of you - it was a great pleasure to enjoy this one again!
Mike, this is my all-time favorite song for over 50+ years. I've played it on my acoustic and w/amateur bandmates forever. And yet you still manage to tease out nuance I've missed or haven't been privy to. For ex, the D7 slide on the D string in the middle 8, and picking the B7 & E when transitioning. You do a great service to us Beatle wannabees.
Im just amazed they can make it sound so full and thick when johns just doing a 5th to 6th power chord movement, sure George is doing stabs on 2 and 3 and with bends here and there which helps thicken it a little but still its amazing it doesnt sound thin at all.
I don't know when George and Ringo fell in love with each other... probably long before DAY TRIPPER but this song always feels like a hallowed testimonial betwen a drummer and riff-playing guitarist. There were many other riff-based songs but, for some reason, that rolling drum opening feels beyond perfect - more like "ordained".
I understand that, since the '80s, bands could inject a well-played version of this song into their festival sets and be guaranteed a new-life for their audiences.
This was one of the first guitar riffs I learned back when I started playing guitar as a kid (started when I was 10 and I'm 25 now) and it's still one of my favourites of all time, love the lesson as always
Love it! Always wondered how in the world did Keith Relf manage to electrocute himself while playing the guitar. In the back of my mind I wonder if there's something I don't know that could be a danger with my own playing the guitar. Don't practically think so, but any insight of the details of that tragic situation?
@phyllis - Keith was playing guitar in his basement where he had a studio. The wiring on his guitar was not grounded. Properly grounded wiring allows electricity to travel safely to the amp. Without it you'd get shocked from touching a microphone, etc.. There was an exposed metal pipe on the floor. While holding the guitar - touching the strings - he stepped on that pipe and became a conductor for 230volts. That had to hurt. Even worse - his eight year old son found him dead.
@phyllis - You'd hear a LOT of humming from the amp. Or - Hold your guitar strings down and a grab a microphone (plugged into another system) and if you get shocked - there's a ground problem somewhere!
That rythm guitar on the bridge is an excellent demonstration of how you can do a lot with a little, a number of variations of essentially tge sane chord. I knew that John had an excellent rythm and technique doing rythm guitar. Mike "just" exposes this with utmost bravado. As always the highlight of my RU-vid weeklys, Mike!
