Good one Mike. Thanks as always for the detailed backstory and absolute attention to detail with each guitar part. Fits perfectly. My wife says I'm obsessed with the Beatles. I just say: '... and then there is Mike".
As usual, that was fantastic Mike! Totally off the wall amazing guitar parts & I never knew about Ringo quitting the band at that time. You are the best & thanks for all of these Beatles lessons! Hope that you are doing well! 👍👍🎸🎸🎤🎤👍👍
Once again, removing the mysteries of the Beatles guitar and eradicating decades of errors, thanks to help by our friends at Maclen Music Inc.. Thanks for this one Mike.
At times the YT algoithm throws a Pacelli Breakdown [tm] at me, and I always enjoy them. Although this was a bit less soundalike than usual I understand why it was done this way. Apart from the (as always) excellent guitar breakdown I really enjoyed how good the vocals of the bridges where done. The doh-doh-doh-doh's and the oii-ooo-oii's where spot on. And when the whoke thing faded out i immediately heard the fade-in of Dear Prudence inside my head. What a way to open an album!
These vids are just amazing Mike. Not only do they show how much you love the beatles but also your own amazing abilities. Both in you musicianship but also your ear and how you can pick out all of the individual details. Thank you so much for doing what you do. 😀
The level of detail you always go into is astounding love it love it love and the back story too, just too much. You’re a gem Mike! Used to play it at one point and got away with it but seems we missed a lot but still a great rockin track to play live. Cheers 😅😊
Hi Mike. I stumbled on one of your videos the other day and have been hooked ever since. Although I don't play any instruments I am a big fan of the Beatles and really enjoy watching how you break down all the guitar work. And the sound-alike at the end really brings it all together. Nicely done.
Super Cool Man Mike - you are so good. Never seen so good with the Beatles. Passed Ringo on the Kings Road London one day. He had an antourage with him and I said hello. He said hello back. Apparently he got more fan mail than any other beatle. I used to have a 1960's volkswagon beatle in the 90's with a valve radio before I lost my lisence in the 2000's . Thank You and may the force be with you
Hi Mike ! I 'd like to thank you for your great lessons! me myself learned a lot; espacially because I'm a great beatlefan, and play bass. Im recording myself at the home studio , and when I have to use a guitar, I always turn to you for your great explanations. Thanks again, you are great!
Mike, I just discovered your site. I love it! The background info on the songs are fascinating. The lessons are fantastic. Thanks. I already bought your Sgt Pepper lesson too.
28:08 Mike this is absolutely fabulous. Huge effort on your part to make all of this and put it together so well. Made me appreciate the song even more than ever - the solo here is presumably aping the sound of the balalaika, 30:05, just makes you appreciate Paul’s genius so much. This really was peak Beatles.
Wow, you did it as promised! Great work, and great that you keep doing the soundalikes! I´ll keep watching every Beatles video you make. Beatles is reality!!😁Nice history on the song. Didn´t know about the amount of overdubs, or the anecdote of Ringo almost leaving the band. Lennon is a unique rhythm player. I think there is a bootleg of him playing Buddy Holly´s "Maybe baby" in a hotel room after the Beatles breakup, and it sounds like 2-3 guitars playing at the same time.
What a great analysis of the song and truly reflects the genius of Paul McCartney and the great performance by the Beatles. Pity Ringo had his nose put out of joint - but what a nose!
Good video, thanks. I sang and played this song quite a few time in several bands since the early 1970s, but I never quite figured out that Gadd9 on the stop to sing the Back in the USSR extended/vocally vamped parts before the bridge (I myself would term it the interlude, and the A, C, D buildup to the stop the bridge, to sing the chorus Back in the USSR. Just my way of analyzing Beatles songs, since the interlude is usually quite different from the verses, bridges, choruses). So, this is very helpful. Now that I see and hear it in your video, it reminds me of the main chords Everybody get together by the Youngbloods where it goes between the A9 and G9, ha. We did that one a lot too. Also, considering the stop on D to sing Back in the USSR as need, the Gadd9 could also be seen/heard interval-wise as banking off the present chord to its fourth chord, common in R&R, R&B and Soul (D to the G, would be the fourth style banking as I call it, ha). Good stuff, thanks again, that one chord was the missing final frosting of the cake for me!
Even the stop itself on the D7 chord to sing the chorus Back in the USSR parts, is banking off the fourth chord of the A key. Then he extends it further going to the 4th of the D, by adding G9. Brilliant!
Mike this is great. I have "the Beatles complete scores" published by Hal-Leonard Corporation and it is very accurate but some of the lets call it "denser" songs like this one are hard to decipher from the transcription.
Hi MIke. Thanks for this. Another fav from 1968. So enjoy what you have been doing here. You are my #1 fav YT site. Request. Could you please do a tutorial on "I'll Get You" (in the end), B side of "She Loves You". I have The Beatles: Complete Scores transcription, but I'd really appreciate your interpretation of all those Beatles' nuances which make this song and its untouchable Beatles harmonies so great for me. Thank you.
Hi Mike - I love your Beatles lessons - the best on you tube for sure. As a suggestion I was wondering if at some point you could do 'Hey Bulldog'. Kind regards, Simon.
Thanks also for including recording dates. Those are always interesting to me... "How old were these songs?" is often a question I ask when bands or performers dredge up oldies-for-them and record. "How long as this one been sitting around? Was it changed with new fills or new lyrics?"
Thanks, Mike your lessons are terrific. I've always wondered how you figured out how to do the chord diagram overlays? They're really useful, but most RU-vid guitar lessons don't have them.
I know it's not your forte, and your rendition at the end is oh so fab, but the piano in the original really adds body to the song and gives it that final Beach Boys sound.
great lesson. i already knew the chord voicings but i picked up on the correct strumming/rhythms from your video. You reproduce this live in a club with only two guitars, i would think an octave pedal for the signature lick in the chorus would be the way to go. A looping pedal might be handy to carry one of the rhythms during the guitar solo. I'll try those at home and see how that works out. Would you consider posting the bass videos?... not a lesson... just taking what you already did and putting it up on your channel. i knew there are 2 bass guitars going and I'm curious what your playing here. i have played a line that seemed too be along with the more active one but I've seen videos where different people play that line just a little different from each other. i would think you'd would be the most accurate. Thanks again for these great tutorials. Hope you're well and enjoying life
Hi Mike, fantastic job as always and by far the best song´s lesson on the Internet! Thank you so much! ... I can imagine how much time, hard work and efford you have to give for every masterpiece lesson like this... I would love to support you more for the precious work you do but when I several times tried to purchase some tabs from your pages the card was refused although I normaly buy tabs in this way on other channels ... have not you ever been considering to start Patreon memebership where you mith get a lot of supporters and offer to premium donators e.g. some tabs downloads? As your lessons are so exceptional I would say it might work well and you would get back some very much deserved financial support... sorry If I´m too introusive on this topic , it is not my business at all but I just had to ask... Take care! Pavel
Hello! I am one of your biggest fan! I also paid a couple times for chart and tabs! May you show us how to play "Please Mister Postman" ? That is one of my favourite Beatles song! I'd rlly enjoy it!
Hi Mike, really enjoying all your Beatles lessons and tabs. A friend was down in Port Grimald near you in St Maxine recently. There was a Beatles tribute band playing there, did they call in to see you for some tips? Might get down there myself someday from Britain.
to take it down to 2 guitars for a regular band, I'd take the lead guitar parts (the 3rd guitar) and split them between the two rhythms. The G add9 would go to the rhythm along with the full chords while the 'Chuck Berry' rock n roll bit and a lot of those stabs would go to the lead. If there's a keyboard, I'd give the power chords in the chorus to that instrument and let the harmonic lick start with the two guitars. If there isn't a keyboard player, then rhythm guitar would have to cover the power chords while the lead does the lick. An octave pedal would be useful at the point if the lead guitarist has one.
This deconstruction makes me wonder: it SEEMS in later years on the recordings (no live gigs) they or perhaps more specifically John, was even more loose on the recordings, not BAD, just certainly drifting from section to section? Also….a great video might be showing what you go through to decipher and learn those multiple parts with the bounced reduction mixes and not always the most clear final mix (unless that would expose your magical musical voodoo😉)
Nofrets - John was VERY improvisational in his rhythm approach. He wasn't a jazz fan (per se) but her incorporated a jazz sensibility in his rhythm playing. There's no magic in my deciphering. I listen to the song on a dozen different speaker systems MANY MANY times. In ProTools I e.q. parts out to hear what I'm looking for. AND - I've been playing guitar over 60 years so that helps to know where on the guitar they are playing what I'm hearing.
As always a perceptive analysis. Played it many times live and notice it's less about accuracy than the excitement created (in the listener) unless you''re nerds like us :-)
All I can say is, Wow! This is a great tutorial. It is really very helpful. Of note. I feel that the strumming pattern is critica)y important. Especially in this particular song You did a superb job. Johhhn Lennon's rhythm work is v onsistent with his characterization in his Rolling Stone interview e.g., "I'm a rhythm guitarist. I can drive a band."
