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!
Mke, you Beauty. When you break down how John strummed and shifted the same chord up the neck etc. you reveal the bones, the essence , of BEATLE-ness. As you do consistently. Much appreciated.
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
Thoroughly absorbing and enjoyable. After sixty years of listening to the Beatles, your wonderful lessons have added a whole new level to my understanding and enjoyment of their music. Thank you for all the hard work you must have to put in to create them.
That's odd that the cover version was blocked in some areas. I just went back and watched the first lesson and it's all there. I'm in Texas, USA. I hope YT doesn't start blocking any more of your covers, as I really enjoy how all of the parts come together.
Terrific lesson as usual Mike! As soon as one hears the opening riff of that tune, they immediately know the song! Would love to have heard the sound-alike! Hope all's well! 👍👍
I don't know if you should be upset or flattered about the sound-a-like causing the block. I really wish you would've replaced it with a lesson on Paul's bass part. You've done bass for that Cream lesson, and you end up playing the bass for the sound-a-like, so why not incorporate it into the lesson?
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.
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 ?
@steve - You have a good ear! MANY Beatles songs have that out of tune chorus effect - 'cuz John, George & Paul's guitars are just about NEVER all perfectly in tune with each other. The fact that they rarely changed their strings - or only changed one string (when it broke) - and tuned to perhaps a harmonica or nearby piano - ensured a difficulty in them all being perfectly in tune together.
@@MPfrance I remember the days when electronic tuners were used - all guitarists had them but , not realising they should be calibrated and matched Woul argue about ‘who’s was in tune ! Changing strings on a Gretsch with Bigsby was a daunting prospect ! I remember Macca plundering bass guitar strings from the back of a piano in Hamburg days :-)
