What Is The Most Complex Beatles Song?

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In today's live stream we answer the question of what is The Beatles most complex song, and why.
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@joelwright4317 9 месяцев назад

In just one calendar year alone (1967), five of Lennon’s songs were Strawberry Fields Forever , Lucy in the Skies With Diamonds, A Day in the Life, All You Need Is Love, and I Am the Walrus. In one year. A mere mortal of a musician would be lucky to write as many legendary compositions over an entire lifetime.

@mikemorrisonmusic 9 месяцев назад

There will never be another group that’s as prolific or culturally significant.

@keesjonkheer7972 9 месяцев назад

And a good year earlier: I’m Only Sleeping, She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing, Dr. Robert and Tomorrow Never Knows.

@JoelGarcia-gt6wl 9 месяцев назад

Of course, in just a few weeks in 1964, he wrote 10 songs for A Hard Days Night.

@keesjonkheer7972 9 месяцев назад

@@JoelGarcia-gt6wlTotally. What I just meant, this contribution - all the songs of his - to Revolver was already stellar and highly special, in my mind

@peterolbrisch8970 9 месяцев назад

That was less than a year.

@jamesbertisch4130 9 месяцев назад

The whole B-side medley from Abbey Road is very complex, sophisticated, and absolutely BEAUTIFUL

@Songwriter376 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely agree 10,000%. God, I wish they would have continued in that style with many more albums.

@VHope4778 9 месяцев назад

Yes and watch Fab Faux reproduce it LIVE… amazing what tools can do now in the hands of talented folks!

@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 9 месяцев назад

I won't say that is the "best" the Beatles ever did as far as an album or album side but it is objectively hard to argue against that this really was a display of each of their best studio performances. What a way to go out... Abbey Road and Let It Be. At their best studio and live and at their best leaving fans wanting more after a decade of already dominating.

@williamadamsmusic3025 9 месяцев назад

John Lennon was a genius, as is McCartney... together they were deadly!

@douglasskaalrud6865 9 месяцев назад

The back side of Abbey Road is the greatest b-side in the history of recorded music.

@frankcastle5294 8 месяцев назад

The chances of 4 young guys from a coastal town in England this incredibly musical and talented ever coming together again at the same time and create what they did, will never ever happen again. I thank God every day of my life that I was alive then to witness all of it.

@pedromarques7457 8 месяцев назад

You're absolutely right!

@jameskelly2559 4 месяца назад

You're right but that coastal town was a vibrant port city with a massive flux of musical influences from all over the world colliding with the traditional native sounds.Liverpool: a true musical melting pot.

@TheBarondeFreyne 4 месяца назад

Liverpool is a fairly large port city. Which was much larger before political boundary changes...just saying.😉

@EnzoFerenczyo 3 месяца назад

I agree, God had had something to do with it and the devil had something that it was afraid of John RIP. Notice intentional capitals and the lack there of.

@smoshbooz 2 месяца назад

@@EnzoFerenczyo that nonsense is absolutely not necessary and takes away from their talent and skill. No need for divine silliness

@Beckola44 8 месяцев назад

A lot of today's musicians do not give The Beatles enough credit. The Beatles songwriting is more than meets the eye. Their chord progressions are out of this world and so complex. Thank you for the great video Rick.

@benjamindoverr3455 8 месяцев назад

Not to mention the vocals, the harmonies, the lyrics, the message, the world-changing-impact ...

@Maccabee444 8 месяцев назад

There are 13 different chords in the intro to I am the walrus alone!

@verntoews6937 8 месяцев назад

I'm 65 bought first guitar chords charts back in the late 60s You said these were not available Rick. I'm 65, how old are you?

@kaneinkansas 8 месяцев назад

Not to mention melodies - which so many "songs" don't bother having these days. @@benjamindoverr3455

@thenoise8917 8 месяцев назад

Not exactly complex . Just unusual .

@jbognap 9 месяцев назад

Not only is Walrus sophisticated, weird and beautiful, but listen to George Martin's orchestration - unreal! This has got to be one of the greatest recordings of modern times.

@dohanddonuts5716 9 месяцев назад

That whole album is wonderful. I thought Walrus was weird the first time. I thought there was a problem with my dad's tape in the middle muffled part. I remember listening to it in the backyard in my tent when I was either 6 or 7 (I'm 44 now). Penny Lane is my favorite of the album. Martin helped prove, along with Pepper that rock music didn't need to be only guitar, bass and drums.

@hackapump 9 месяцев назад

Indeed, and don't forget the tape loops they added to that orchestration. An unbelievable masterpiece.

@madamfirefly1 9 месяцев назад

Jim Carey’s performance on I Am The Waltus is outstanding!

@Pat-nl4wk 9 месяцев назад

And yet IATW is the “B” side to “Hello, Goodbye”

@potterwalker4823 9 месяцев назад

@@Pat-nl4wkand it’s a billion times the song.

@therealinformalmusic 9 месяцев назад

For different time signatures, and four keys, “Happiness is a Warm Gun” was a favourite song of the Beatles themselves.

@amazeddude1780 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely one of the most ‘flex’ numbers they did.

@kfoster009 9 месяцев назад

Great song of theirs, was an amalgamation of about three of ones they were working on...

@sombra1111 9 месяцев назад

That's the first one I thought when I saw the title of this video

@connykarlsson9969 9 месяцев назад

And the same for me, ”Happiness is a Warm Gun" is the song I immediately thought of..

@davidvillarreal7668 9 месяцев назад

Same here

@robertfmorton 8 месяцев назад

I think that a good example of vocal harmony in the Beatles is 'If I Fell'. Wonderful interplay by Paul and John.

@mattiacodato4193 8 месяцев назад

I love the key change at the very beginning

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@fractaljack210 7 месяцев назад

"If I Fell," is the song we used to test a vocalist ability. It messed a lot of people up! Great song.

@ester9484 7 месяцев назад

One of my favourite Beatles song.

@charliegorman1797 6 месяцев назад

A vocal key change within 20 seconds of the opening bars..incredible, and such a complex but beautiful vocal melody. The genius of Lennon at 22!

@tonyrussell5058 6 месяцев назад

Fully agree. The vocal harmonies are wonderful. I can never listen to it only once. Masterpiece.

@bloozswami 8 месяцев назад

Lennon was an icon. I listened to "Yes It Is" yesterday. His voice was the main event on that song. He gave it all he had, right to the limit. No window dressing. Blew my 14 tear old mind when they came out in 63". Has not stopped.

@grahamegreen789 8 месяцев назад

Totally agree and well & truly on the same page has to be 'This Boy.'

@jerryrichmond4707 8 месяцев назад

Both "Yes It Is" and "This Boy" were among the last Beatles' tunes to be released in stereo and two of my personal favorites. Great harmonies and vocal arrangements. Truly years ahead of the rest of the music world.@@grahamegreen789

@steveoshow4832 7 месяцев назад

Imagine if and when Aplle create a Love 2 album, and Giles Martin just adding strings taking away the instrumental and lifting in the Because harmonies it would be fantastic😎👌

@user-otzlixr 5 месяцев назад

Yes it is doesn t get the love it deserves. Ive seen it on several worst Beatles Song list. I really like the Anthology version, the harmonies are so much clearer.

@dkimuk 9 месяцев назад

My head will never be able to process that they went from Please, Please Me & Love Me Do to I Am The Walrus & Blackbird in 4 years. 4 years!!! That's one insane learning curve.

@carlsaganlives5112 4 месяца назад

Add a couple years for "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" to "Revolution #9", which as far as I know they never performed live.

@HappyForestBridge-zj4yh Месяц назад

I think it was a throwback to their finger picking skiffle days

@yeehawo7 Месяц назад

@@carlsaganlives5112 revolution number nine is literally just a cacophony of sounds, not quite performable live lol

@carlsaganlives5112 Месяц назад

@@yeehawo7 Pretty sure Yoko has, though.

@yeehawo7 Месяц назад

@@carlsaganlives5112 LMAO

@ianmartens5286 9 месяцев назад

I once auditioned for a Beatles tribute band and it really opened my eyes as to how tough that stuff is to do Lots of singing and playing together and it's not just strumming G C and D all the time.

@psychonautpupildiallater7734 9 месяцев назад

I can’t sing and play hardly at all, I played in a Slayer tribute band years ago and sang one song….War Ensemble,..and i had to constantly practice it to keep my chops up, or I would mess it up. I have mad respect for singer/players! Cheers!😉👍

@darrylmoore127 9 месяцев назад

I have a reissue 62 Hofner but never played in a Beatles tribute band , had a couple of Ric black glo 4003 , Maple V63 4001 now gone should had kept that one . Play every Sunday despite M.S. , 4 to 6 different songs every Sunday. With my gear Ampeg V4B HLF 6X10 Volume is low , PA. is bare bones reason for my cab.

@JordyJayHomer 9 месяцев назад

ha! True. I used to play and sing The Beatles' Birthday in a coverband a long time ago. It took me ages to learn how to play and sing a part right near the end. I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was when the riff is 'pushed' as it repeats a few times with a vocal line.

@nilssmelteris7845 9 месяцев назад

dude, don't exaggerate, in intellectual pop music we also have an Em chord, maybe even an Am! PS thats a sarcasm

@jxchamb 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, it's like you're trying recreate music played by the greatest band ever.

@abc456f 8 месяцев назад

The Beatles just put a smile on my face. Their music makes me happy.

@Deepspace_Music 8 месяцев назад

No one has mentioned "Because"- that is beautifully complex.

@tomkovar-gg5gc 6 дней назад

He does mention it.

@AlyoshaKaramazov. 9 месяцев назад

I love the modulations and gorgeus melody in "Martha My Dear," one of the Beatles' most underrated gems. It's a helluva lot of fun to play on a piano.

@allenf.5907 9 месяцев назад

Agree - it's a brilliant song. Never performed live by Paul.

@celt67 9 месяцев назад

Apparently Paul had an unusual style of piano playing where he'd use his left hand for the melody and right hand for the background chords..etc.

@sether61 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely adore that song

@johnnyxmusic 9 месяцев назад

@@celt67 Yesterday that I heard something like that. But I can’t exactly recall if that’s the order of things. But I guess he’s a lefty… So maybe it makes sense. So Paul is playing piano on the wrong side… And Ringo is playing drums with a kind of a flipped kit. The truth is out there…

@carlbaumeister3439 9 месяцев назад

@@celt67I don’t think so. I’ve never heard that in his playing. In fact, the very song “Martha My Dear,” is not played like that. He basically plays octaves with his left hand, and melody and riffs with his right. Same with Lady Madonna, Hey Jude, Let it Be, Golden Slumbers, You Never Give Me Your Money, Single Pigeon, 1985, and on and on.

@chabum81 9 месяцев назад

All I want for christmas is a Rick interview with Paul McCartney!

@alonsofrancescutti4956 9 месяцев назад

McCartney is already quite old, I fear that he may go any day and it would be a pitty if Rick doesn't have the chance to interview him. I feel most interviews of Paul are less about music and more about beatles' nostalgia (nothing wrong with that), but we need more of Paul talking about music.

@westfield90 9 месяцев назад

I’d love it because he will ask new stuff about his bass creativity and how those melodic songs and riffs. Rather than the 1000th time of how did you write yesterday.

@rona4851 Месяц назад

Paul died in 66

@Frst2nxt 28 дней назад

@@rona4851 that joke died the year before.

@rona4851 28 дней назад

@@Frst2nxt joke??

@paulhague5590 8 месяцев назад

Rick, thank you for pointing out how sophisticated the Beatles really were. We're still listening to them over 50 years later. They are definitely THE FAB FOUR.

@johnsullivan2412 7 месяцев назад

The Beatles are not Boomer music, as younger people like to claim. The Beatles are timeless music. From growing up with commercial radio in the '60s to fusion and bop in the 70s to ska/ alternative since, I have never lost my love for the Beatles. If anything, it's stronger than ever. They transcend generations. Their melodies, regardless of complexity, are unmatched.

@erwildersr 6 месяцев назад

Even their earliest tunes and those they gave away are awesome 😎.

@jonathanbernal2179 6 месяцев назад

Well stated!

@JJthelonelybullinasia 9 месяцев назад

Norwegian Wood and Rubber Soul was the album that moved the Beatles away from the rest of the music world. It was definitely a turning point in their music writing.

@paddymeboy 8 месяцев назад

Well, that's one of their least musically complex songs. But it's a strange question to ask. The Beatles didn't seek complexity for the sake of it. Their songs typically _are_ more complex than most pop songs - but the beauty is, they don't _sound_ it. Like Mozart - on a simpler level - it's 'the art that conceals art'.

@brianmallen8887 8 месяцев назад

Consistently great were the Beatles. But you can't under estimate the power historically of the British Invasion itself. Added up, it just about knocked America off the block as to who owns pop music and rock n roll respectively. The second after JFK was murdered, boom, Great Britain just steamrolled pop rock, something the U.S. had owned lock, stock and barrel for decades. And The Beatles led the way.

@scottdunbar8228 8 месяцев назад

Yeah 😊people thought they were over...but the lads were busy in studio 💪🏽💪🏽

@Bluemusic66 8 месяцев назад

They had at least 5 of them…

@mysticmerman 8 месяцев назад

Agreed. The jump from "Help!" to "Rubber Soul" was mind-blowing. Then, the jump from "Rubber Soul" to "Revolver" was Earth shattering! To me, the only band who even came close to that in my lifetime was Radiohead from "Pablo Honey" to "The Bends" to "OK Computer." 😁

@douglasbrittain7018 9 месяцев назад

Another thing about the Beatles over their career is how their music never got old or outdated. Not to mention they went with the times as far as not getting dated with the same old stuff. They either went with the flow of time or started a flow that themselves never went out of style while keeping up it. Going on 60 years now and their music never gets old as many decades you listen to them.

@douglasskaalrud6865 9 месяцев назад

The very first Beatles song I ever heard was “I am the Walrus” on a 45 rpm with “Hello Goodbye.” I was 11 years old and my mom had just bought the single. When all is said and done, you must admit that only the Beatles could have pulled off such a cool song. Lennon was an absolute Wordsmith.

@ziastateofmind 8 месяцев назад

I was listening to Penny Lane the other day and it hit me yet again how absolutely brilliant it is. So deceptively simple. Brilliant storytelling through song. I’m so glad someone agrees with me 😂 I can’t talk to my daughter about it.

@mickavellian 8 месяцев назад

It is a masterpiece musically and lyrically.. The Syllabic rhymes are just amazing !

@Bluemusic66 8 месяцев назад

Yep. Pity those who don’t understand how good lyrically Paul is. Lyrics are words in a song, not just words. There’s a big difference.

@U2WB 8 месяцев назад

Penny Lane is a masterpiece. I will admit that John was always my favorite Beatle, and his songs were life-changing for me, but there's no denying that Paul is a master composer: Penny Lane, Got to Get You Into My Life, And I Love Her, She's Leaving Home, Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey.. so many more

@eflows 7 месяцев назад

That’s my favorite Beatles song overall

@nancydrew52 7 месяцев назад

And Paperback Writer! @@U2WB

@BasedGenZGuy 9 месяцев назад

I can't think of a better band than The Beatles. They had the two greatest songwriters of all time and their third-best songwriter wrote "Something" and "Here Comes thu sun." I mean, what other band has a catalog like that? They were unbelievable!!!!!!

@BasedGenZGuy 9 месяцев назад

And all that in seven years!

@MD-uu5nt 9 месяцев назад

I would say Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles also had an absurd number of great songwriters and performers within the band.

@HamiltonRb 9 месяцев назад

They also had four guys that sang, despite most songs were handled by Lennon or McCartney. I can’t think of another band that did that, except maybe the Eagles later on

@BasedGenZGuy 9 месяцев назад

@@HamiltonRb They were incredible

@tahamohammedi5898 9 месяцев назад

@@MD-uu5ntThat is a stupid take, none of them were above average

@daveowens271 9 месяцев назад

My brother-in-law was a professional musician. He said Something was probably the most perfect song he'd ever played. He loved it.

@humboldthammer 9 месяцев назад

I used to play solo -- like at Open Mikes -- hardly a professional. Later, when I did some home recording, I realized just how many liberties I take with other peoples songs. I played "Something" too. I sort-of learned a lot of songs that I never performed -- such as "I Am the Walrus" -- because I couldn't play them well enough.

@tockita 9 месяцев назад

I can't believe Rick didn't talk about Paul's bass in Something. It elevates de song to the highest level.

@quantanglement 9 месяцев назад

@@tockita Yes. I can think of so many songs that just would not be as good if not for that bass playing. From Sgt P and forward and back. Just wow!

@joelemerou3487 9 месяцев назад

Frank Sinatra who was NOT a fan of the Beatles said it was one of the most beautiful song he even heard.

@MarkInLA 9 месяцев назад

Yeah ! And he also credited it to "lennon and McCartney" when it was written by George Harrison !@@joelemerou3487

@lifes2short1000 8 месяцев назад

I think when the Beatles were at their musical peak, what was so satisfying about it - why it worked so well - was that they had achieved a harmonic level equivalent to some of the great classical composers of the Baroque and Classical genres. They achieved that through a combination of musical intelligence, effort and experience rather than education + that all-important combination of individuals which is able to bring out the best in each other to become more than the sum of its parts.

@Gently469 8 месяцев назад

Another reminder that we will never see a group so utterly talented as the Beatles. They were a band that only comes about once in a lifetime and I feel privileged to have witnessed them.

@jarrah1496 8 месяцев назад

Autechre

@robm2491 8 месяцев назад

Never to be duplicated again

@fioralbannach6647 6 месяцев назад

@gently: ‘once in a lifetime’!!!! You meant, once in a millennia. Of course, I know what you mean; but it’s very easy to understate, just how unique; brilliant & otherworldly, The Beatles really were. Their compositions & songwriting produced music, that will never be equaled; hit after hit, after hit, after hit…

@SirLemming 9 месяцев назад

"If I Fell" -- I'm not sure if it qualifies as complex, but the progression there is definitely really unexpected. Borrows a bit from jazz standards I guess, but there's something really special about it. I'll always be mystified by how they came up with that one, and that was when they weren't even spending a whole lot of time crafting the songs! Probably tossed it off in an afternoon... It's not fair how good they were.

@powlobo.m.b. 9 месяцев назад

I had that song in mind too! It always struck me as "what???" when listening to the chord changes :)

@GT380man 9 месяцев назад

Has it not occurred to you that perhaps the story we’ve been fed isn’t true?

@michi-dr2oy 9 месяцев назад

Honey Pie is jazzy also

@Dwightpower88 9 месяцев назад

@@GT380manAre you a Paul died guy or are you saying they didn't write those songs? Or something else.

@claudioperotti9439 9 месяцев назад

@@GT380manabout what?

@dawnu132 9 месяцев назад

But, the fact that there are no minor chords in I am a Walrus is just mind blowing. The whole thing sounds like its in minor chords. Lennon was amazing.

@JugaJuga14 8 месяцев назад

That’s coz the melody and a lot of the string parts are written in a minor pentatonic scale, which give the song a kinda minor, off kilter feel, even if the song is in a major key.

@winstonbbailey8740 7 месяцев назад

i've noticed, at least, i think, that the beatles seem to often substitute where another composer would have a minor chord with a dominant 7th chord, almost like they are saying to the listener "we know that you are expecting a minor here, but we're the beatles, so we're going to give you a major that has a minor 7th in it, and that's good enough. trust us. we're the beatles."

@sebasiegrist9341 7 месяцев назад

@@winstonbbailey8740 that's jazz/blues vocabulary

@gerrycoogan6544 7 месяцев назад

There's an F sharp minor 7 in the second half of the verses.

@sebasiegrist9341 7 месяцев назад

@@gerrycoogan6544 actually it's D/F#

@arielpiccini6606 8 месяцев назад

A real Beatlemaniac sings the horns after the "I'm crying" interlude in "I am the Walrus". Beatles for ever. Great video!

@chuck1804 8 месяцев назад

Major love for what you do, Rick. I was a 90s kid but you are my Mum's generation and thus I grew up with Simon & Garfunkel and Joni Mitchell and The Beatles in the house and in the car. There is no greater musical upbringing (imo). Music that makes you feel grateful to be alive. We simply will never have songwriting like this again. 🙏

@JohnKayeOverlords 8 месяцев назад

I was born into the “Mary Kaye Trio” family. I became a musician after meeting the Beatles in Las Vegas. It was a life changing experience

@mhsanichar 8 месяцев назад

It' s True. Beatles are The best of The universe

@scottgunvaldsonmusic4116 9 месяцев назад

As the quote goes "Genius is making the complicated seem simple." Really descriptive of the Beatles. Most people think their songs are simple until they start to dig a little deeper.

@christiandleyva9064 9 месяцев назад

Agreed!

@jeromehattkronen2305 9 месяцев назад

yeh, they're all pretty complicated actually

@RJNumber45 9 месяцев назад

Great comment

@VHope4778 9 месяцев назад

Exactly. Genius is crafting complexity that sticks in your head - that ear worm you can hum. Someone mentioned Zappa but here the Beatles (4 minds at work) have it all over Frank (whom I love). Representing complexity in simple terms IS GENIUS. And besides, shouldn’t everything simple already have been invented?

@georgegbalzano9239 8 месяцев назад

A nice girl I dated in High School in the 80s knew I was a Beatles' fan, and although she was a fan as well, she made it a conversation point to comment on just how "simple" their songs were. Though I liked her alot, Needless to say, we didn't end up getting married...!!!

@martstar420 9 месяцев назад

That “Eric Johnson” lick you highlighted from “Strawberry Fields Forever” was played by George on the swarmandal, an Indian harp-like instrument that he also played on “Within You, Without You.”

@mikeolson6834 8 месяцев назад

I thought it was something Indian and not a strat.

@capeflattery6179 8 месяцев назад

When you take the lyrics into account, "Strawberry Fields Forever" may be the most complex and profound of all of them. "I am the Walrus" is modern art in any era.

@CalJennings 8 месяцев назад

That's a good one too.

@mauriciovargas3913 7 месяцев назад

Walrus yes, it is Surrealistic Art: Picasso or Dali on song.

@christophe555 5 месяцев назад

You’re gonna lose that girl is another that at the time was so oddly perfect, these were truly new sounds

@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 9 месяцев назад

It almost didn't matter what any instruments did if Paul was singing, He was a beast. And his bass lines.... But then again John was magical, George Harrison's songs and guitar work always shined through so brilliantly, Ringo's drumming as well as his songs were always something special.. And to have George Martin as a producer. Magic indeed.

@mauriciovargas3913 7 месяцев назад

I would say COSMIC. I have been to Liverpool and to think John lived close to Paul's who lived close to George's who lived close to Ringo's... Come on!!! 😮❤🎉

@danstrachan 6 месяцев назад

so much talent, in all positions all damn day

@jacklewis4044 6 месяцев назад

Exactly!!

@josephherb4920 9 месяцев назад

The output of simultaneously complex and catchy hooks/music The Beatles put out in ~7 years is absurd and I feel will likely remain unmatched forever. The greatest band we'll ever see IMO. Just love their stuff. Timeless.

@santinocorleone1204 8 месяцев назад

Great point - all this in SEVEN fricken years!!!

@kimchi_b 7 месяцев назад

The greatest behind the scenes ghostwriting music team ever...if anyone seriously thinks John wrote Strawberry Fields alone (let alone in the state he was in at the time) then they are on more acid than he was ;)

@strangernolonger4770 8 месяцев назад

I always imagine this dude as a musical sports announcer. "Amazing use of a diminished chord there by Lennon."

@davidwhite8220 8 месяцев назад

Probably one that no one will think of is You're Gonna Lose That Girl.

@jcpana060959 Месяц назад

Great song

@shanegedekoh121 9 месяцев назад

Something and Strawberry Fields are 2 of their greatest songs. Like, literally 2 of the top 3. Crazy that as much as the Beatles were "Lennon/McCartney" that George wrote perhaps what is their greatest song. Truly unbelievable and ridiculous that John, Paul, and George were in the same band. Unlimited talent and imagination.

@pixiewings21_9 7 месяцев назад

Something is a great song but I wouldn't say it's their greatest (and isn't _that_ saying something - no pun intended). But I do wish Ringo was given more credit. Something and Come Together wouldn't be as great without his incredible and 'musical' contribution. He's masterful on Rain and even though the idea for the syncopated drums on Ticket to Ride was actually Paul's, Ringo's execution is superb. He was the perfect drummer for the perfect group.

@mauriciovargas3913 7 месяцев назад

@@pixiewings21_9soooooo many people do not know that fact about Ticket to Ride, not even some drum Scholars. Even so, it has Ringo's feel, that makes it great and - of course unique. Ringo is a genius.

@agustinmarioquiroga3776 9 месяцев назад

“YES IT IS” has some pretty great harmonies. Especially George Harrison’s part. He’s weaving below Lennon and sometimes in between Lennon and McCartney. Pretty cool

@davispeckramos 8 месяцев назад

I think Michelle deserves more recognition, it has such a great melody and harmony as well.

@johnzaccardi526 8 месяцев назад

Michelle introduced us to the Beatles in another language. And it worked. MICHELLE and GIRL made RUBBER SOUL the great album that started the Beatles middle period.

@JavierRodriguez-gn6bt 8 месяцев назад

Well it won nothing but a Grammy in 1967 for song of the year. Inmortalized forever though in Rubber Soul and Revolver there were better song even only considering McCartney ones.

@JavierRodriguez-gn6bt 8 месяцев назад

To me, by musical or lyrical means or both together, there were two non-album singles 'Day tripper' and 'Paper back writer', and 6 songs in Rubber Soul (Norwegian wood, You won't see me, Nowhere man, Think for yourself, I'm looking thru you, and If I needed someone) that marked the the transition of The Beatles music to a more experimental and deeper levels one. But not 'Michelle' or 'Girl', two romantic ballads in a traditional musical way.

@kirbygene 5 месяцев назад

I prefer "Michelle" over "Yesterday" as my favorite soft ballad of McCartney's. Lovely melody, nice descending chords, nice backing vocals from JPG, and that wonderful lead guitar part by George that fit the mood of the song perfectly.

@bakerzermatt 8 месяцев назад

Strawberry fields is such an amazing song. Rhythmically it also has a lot of fun, especially at the end where it goes 2/4, 4/4, 6/8, 4/4, 6/8, 3/4, 6/8, 4/4! (each measure with a different time signature)

@VMBFV 9 месяцев назад

That detail about the melody ascending and the bass descending simultaneously! 😍 That's amazing, it blew my mind!

@xziggy_stardustx6786 9 месяцев назад

Paul McCartney does that a lot.

@VMBFV 9 месяцев назад

@@xziggy_stardustx6786 Would you give me other examples, please?

@veritas41photo 7 месяцев назад

"Whiter Shade of Pale" us a great example of this.

@avogrid296 9 месяцев назад

It's amazing how much these songs just have become part of the air we breathe, so we don't even notice their complexity anymore! When you mentioned Blackbird, I was like -- that simple little tune? And then I really listened -- 😄

@mysticmerman 8 месяцев назад

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is complex on more levels than just the chord changes. It's possibly the most influential recording in rock music.

@aunch3 8 месяцев назад

It’s the lyrics

@mysticmerman 8 месяцев назад

@@fromchomleystreet Yes, I mentioned that in my other comment. I basically said that the use of the studio as an "instrument" is likely the biggest influence, as tape looping, audio sampling, voice manipulation and distortion, backwards instrument recording, speed manipulation and more have influenced hip hop, electronic, Indie rock, avant-pop, alternative rock, alternative R&B, and even jazz and classical music. Leaving "Revolver" out of the top ten on Rolling Stones' most updated 500 best albums was a dumb mistake. It means that they are no longer polling people who understand the history of music. I think they needed an update, but they went too far.

@mysticmerman 8 месяцев назад

@@aunch3 The lyrics are mostly taken from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, I believe.

@RenataKleinRK 8 месяцев назад

I thought that song was only a C chord through the whole thing.

@mysticmerman 7 месяцев назад

@@RenataKleinRK My point is that the innovation and studio techniques are what make the song complex. Their use of audio sampling, tape looping, vocal manipulation, backward instrument recording, and much more influenced multiple genres, artists, and producers. 🙂

@normansimpson5637 8 месяцев назад

Love these types of videos. Brings a little more insight to the genius of the Beatles. I try to appreciate the genius of the Beatles. But they are so far beyond the normal man as far as melody intuition. Makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on. Thank you

@googleeyeseyes4033 9 месяцев назад

I absolutely love these breakdowns that totally opens up the eyes of the casual listener who thinks they know and hear a song, till you break it down and see and hear all the nuances, fantastic! Listened to the Beatles since they landed stateside and I still learn new things, thank you!

@jamesdignanmusic2765 9 месяцев назад

The Beatles' learning curve was phenomenal. When you consider they went from "Love me do" to the intricate chord structures of "If I fell" (which I'm surprised you didn't mention!) in a bare two years, it's no surprise that by 1967-68 they were producing songs with the complexity to change popular music forever. PS: I've heard how Leo McKern's character pronounced "Beatles" in "Help!" - someone called Beato was fated to do videos like this!

@paullai7161 9 месяцев назад

I had "If I Fell" on my radar as well as I was watching - so 'weird' and unusual, in such a beautiful way, and in the WAY early days!

@rtraktsdn1197 9 месяцев назад

George Martin had a huge hand in bringing more depth and complexity to the table

@Secular_Monk 9 месяцев назад

I love the footage where John is playing piano and teaching "Oh My Love" to George. He's calling out the chord changes, and then comes to one and says: I don't know the name of this one. But Yoko knows. Yoko knows this one. So John doesn't even know all the names of the chords he uses when writing so many magnificent songs, some of them fairly complex. But he knows how they sound and how they work in his chord progressions. Absolutely mind boggling!

@mowellen3 9 месяцев назад

“It is not the Be-Atle with the ring, he!” It does sound a bit like Beato now that you mention it.

@CathyKeating 8 месяцев назад

I love how accurate your voicings are for all of these Beatles songs. 👌 It's a pleasure to listen to you reproducing these songs on your guitar.

@Spinz99 9 месяцев назад

Yes Beatles music is just historically amazing. Their creativity never had much of a match. Also the experience they built up as songwriters. How extensive their work is. Even after they split up. Lennon, McCartney and Harrison wrote so many great songs. Very few other people on the planet even today. Thank you as always for the listening experience.

@US_Joe 9 месяцев назад

My father who was a professional piano player, mentioned the constant key changes mid bar, etc. was prevalent & said they broke every rule Beethoven wrote. To my proud amazement, he Loved it ! 👍👍👍

@jxchamb 9 месяцев назад

To quote Chuck Barry, "bend over Beethoven and tell Checkoskvy the news".

@cuebj 9 месяцев назад

Chuck Berry having been a classical pianist

@jxchamb 9 месяцев назад

@@cuebj You're thinking of his cousin Marvin.

@klaxoncow 9 месяцев назад

@@jxchamb Great Scott. You're right.

@toddgoes7935 9 месяцев назад

Those said "rules" were set since the Middle Ages until Bach, Beethoven, etc., when playing a Major or minor 9 or 13 was considered an offense or even a sin (LOL)! The Beatles "broke" those stupid rules. And jazz players "break" them all the time, even further, and they play music far more complex and farther away from those said ancient "rules".

@vincognito 9 месяцев назад

A good deal of people, when looking for sophistication in Beatles music, usually look to their later work. It makes sense. The were restlessly seeking newer and newer sounds later on. But in the early days, they tried to stick to the most commonly used Pop writing style. That said, I've done deep dives into their early work, and it's surprising what you can find. My favorite ever half-step modulation is in the intro to the beautiful 'If I Fell.' Most half-step modulations slap you in the face screaming "I'm here in a new key now!" But 'If I Fell' makes an amazingly seamless and sly modulation, deceptively moving from the key of Db Major to D Major. In Db, the D Major chord serves as a tritone substitution resolving a half-step back down to Db. The second time around the melody however, the D chord drops its role as a tritone sub and and becomes Root using the ii-V7 in D Major, thereby establishing the key of D for the rest of the song. Truly remarkable brilliance even in the very early days...

@dominicschaeffer909 8 месяцев назад

There is footage of their first American tour in the hotel rooms with Lennon playing a melodica and you hear the origins of the “Living is easy with eyes closed” melody. He’d been working on that song years before it was made real.

@mauriciovargas3913 7 месяцев назад

Yes, he plays a harmonium (I think) during A Hard Day's Night

@NewTab0911 6 месяцев назад

A strange one for me is Things We Said Today. It sounds simple enough but is a difficult song to sing with confidence because of the strange melody/harmony changes. The fact they did it so well on the Hollywood Bowl album without stage monitors is astonishing considering all of the crowd noise.

@sciwiz57 9 месяцев назад

As someone who loved the Beatles from 10 years old ( born in 1954) this was fascinating to watch you go through these songs. “Walrus” right up there in my favorites. I remember the story when Lennon played Walrus to everyone and George Martin famously said “ and what the hell am I supposed to do with that?”😂😂😂 Makes me laugh when musical illiterates say the Beatles are overrated.

@josephmango4628 9 месяцев назад

Not to mention the ridiculous amount of work it took to mix the timing of the intro with the rest of the song, as they were in two different keys. Consider they went from I Want To Hold Your Hand (64) to I Am The Walrus (68). That's a hell of a leap in progression in four years.

@darreng745 8 месяцев назад

@@josephmango4628 You can say from I Want to Hold You Hand in 64 then Tomorrow Never Knows in 66 through The whole of the whole of Sergeant Peppers in 67 finishing up with Helter Skelter in 68 you have an incredible diverse catelogue of development in 4 years. How many modern bands can say that in 4 years they go from 3 minute standard love numbers to writing proto heavy metal tracks and record 4 albums that are million sellers?

@deborahpaley21 8 месяцев назад

born '54 myself...

@Mattchu44 8 месяцев назад

We need to give just a little bit of credence to LSD, it opened a lot of minds those days and gave us some good music.

@slapbass9125 9 месяцев назад

I never used to like "Martha My Dear" that much. But I've started to really admire how many directions that song moves in, so seamlessly.

@paulemma8125 9 месяцев назад

It’s like a broadway show tune. Just amazing

@tockita 9 месяцев назад

Paul was so criticized by his so call "granny music" that people hates those songs just because, but they are amazing! Like Martha, or She's Leaving Home or Silly Love Songs.

@maryannlockwood7806 4 месяца назад

@@tockita and yet they are some of my absolute favorites!😊

@StacySJB88 8 месяцев назад

I thoroughly enjoy watching your videos and I actually love your inability to remember lyrics. My late husband was an extremely talented musician and could play nearly any song from memory, but when it came to the lyrics he was so lost. So he would type up the lyrics all the songs he loved to play. He never really organized them he would just have stack of them and was constantly flipping through them if he wanted to play them. Following his death I found myself organizing them, alphabetically, in 3-ring binders. I’ve got seven 3-inch binders full now, one of those completely full of songs from his favorite group, the Beatles. He would have loved your channel, and I think I love it because you remind me of him, and I miss hearing him play his guitar’s every day. Thank you 🎼🎶🎵🎸

@sixstringstrummer-ek6il 7 месяцев назад

“Harmony is the ocean that chords set sail on” That’s a really good way to describe harmony! Also cool vid as always.

@kfiralfiavideo 9 месяцев назад

When I heard the Anthology version of Walrus for the first time, it was the most exciting musical moment of my life. You strip away the orchestration and leave just the basic instrumentation, it is mind boggling how John was able to wring out so much complexity and sophistication from a seemingly simple set of major chords. It is, in my estimation, his greatest achievement.

@ronniechilds2002 9 месяцев назад

I agree. Just hearing the 4 of them grind that song out is far superior to the ''Eeh eeh eeh- ah ah ah'' madness.

@robbedontuesday 8 месяцев назад

What I would not give to see Paul's face when John played the walrus for the first time to the band...

@kfiralfiavideo 8 месяцев назад

@@robbedontuesday I read somewhere that when John played his Walrus guitar demo for the first time, George Martin had no clue what he just heard, and didn't think they would be able to make much of it because it was so weird. This was right after Brian died. But you're right on, Paul adored this song, and would say "well it's no 'I Am the Walrus" when talking negatively about another track. Paul knew he could never write something this exotic, poor fella :)

@robbedontuesday 8 месяцев назад

@@kfiralfiavideo Martin was ok for more or less conventional arrangements... that is why they got along fine with Paul. John said around 1968 that they did not need Martin... John was self-taught/experiment driven.

@cziarno1972 9 месяцев назад

One of the mind boggling things to me is that the Beatles are actually singing multi part harmonies while actually playing. The craftsmanship is just amazing. I would challenge that I hear so little of that in today’s music. Complexity, interesting lyrics, harmonies, originality, organic performance. Just amazing.

@jasoncdebussy 9 месяцев назад

It was the singing, in particular the harmonies, which attracted me to The Beatles in the first place.

@meestuinier4486 9 месяцев назад

@@jasoncdebussysame here! What also intrigues me is the fact that they apply all those more complicated concepts in music theory without actually knowing their theory. It's very pure

@thomaslenglain8594 9 месяцев назад

BIFFY CLYRO

@SmartCookie2022 9 месяцев назад

@@thomaslenglain8594 Biffy who?

@GT380man 9 месяцев назад

@@thomaslenglain8594Billy Shepherd, surely?

@jnagarya519 8 месяцев назад

Lennon and McCartney wrote from feeling, and figured out what chords fit the feeling. Often they made up chords which probably already existed but they didn't know their names. "Strawberry Fields Forever" is one of the two greatest recordings in history. The other is the astonishing "Please Please Me".

@allnewnow2023 5 месяцев назад

So perceptive, so true

@deanbowlus1658 8 месяцев назад

I remember as a 9 year old kid, with a 3" transister radio speaker glued to my ear and having my mind blown by, I Am The Walrus. Amazing, amazing song. The radio station interlude gave me chills, and still does.

@bobboitt3126 9 месяцев назад

The best guitarist in our town started off playing the Beatles. I still think that foundation is what propelled his success. Amazing Player.

@nofam 9 месяцев назад

Still amazes me even after all these years, how pretty much any Beatles song is like a map to modern music.

@SuperGogetem 9 месяцев назад

Even though its actually a few song fragments stuck together, "Happiness is a Warm Gun" is the first to come to mind, particularly for its complex timing.

@jackoboyle2833 8 месяцев назад

It’s like a musician friend once told me, “There are only twelve tones in our scale and all Western music is composed from those twelve notes, more or less.” “Harmony is the ocean a musician sets sail on.” Beautiful. Love your shows, Rick.

@James-eg3nf 9 месяцев назад

One of my favorite hidden Beatles gems is Yes It Is. It has a beautiful melody and some of the richest harmonies I’ve heard in any pop song. I’ve learned the guitar chords and the changes are surprisingly tricky.

@aerparts 9 месяцев назад

It's a fun one to play. Look up the version Don Henley did at Bridge School benefit.

@lennonag84 9 месяцев назад

This is the first song I hear from the Beatles when I was 12. And after that there is no going back. Music because my life.

@dkimuk 9 месяцев назад

The Anthology version of it is outstanding as you hear the humble beginnings grow into something complex and beautiful. Just a great song.

@robq 9 месяцев назад

I always loved I Am the Walrus, and I remember the day I came to the realization that it contains no minor chords; I bet when Lennon wrote it, he was thinking on some level "I am going to write a song made of up all major chords, but I am going to put as many different ones into it as I can while maintaining a relatively simple melody". As for the chord sequence at the end, if you just listen to that on its own, the chord progression is such that there's really no key centre. In fact if you play it live without a fade, as I did in a band I was in a few years ago, there is no logical place to stop; it doesn't resolve to any particular note, or chord. Crazy.

@intelligenthorsemanshipwit1330 8 месяцев назад

My band once played it for about 45 minutes during a drug fuelled jam. I was on piano; the other 4 were on one drum kit! We were probably trying to find a way to end it for the last 20 minutes!

@zoraydasantoyo1901 8 месяцев назад

En realidad fue George Martin quien cuando Lennon le presento la canción, no sabía que hacer con eso, pero se esforzó y hizo todos esos arreglos, que aunque la letra sea una porquería la música es genial, es como en un día en la vida, la canción es buena pero fue el trabajo de George Martin y del empeño y colaboración de Mccartney que la hacen estupenda

@jerrylamartina7365 8 месяцев назад

I'm not a musician. But I bought a Feder classical guitar 40 years ago. Studied for a few months with a Christopher Parkening instruction book and learned some basics. I've played it from time to time ever since. I don't understand most of the technical music descriptions Rick talks about. But I find it fascinating anyway. I love listening to and watching him. His love of the music is clear and infectious. I love his description of his father sitting with him on their front porch hour after hour and just listening quietly to him play when he was young, practicing and learning and growing. A real show of love from a father to his son.

@tamlynburleigh9267 8 месяцев назад

The strange thing about Beatles songs for me was this sense of the songs were always there, but the Beatles simply found them.

@allnewnow2023 5 месяцев назад

I can see that!

@grantbent 9 месяцев назад

In the throne room of the song gods. Rick opens the kimono on Beatles songs that have mystified amateur guitar players for decades. The language of music is filled with sophisticated terminology leftover from classical music studies. But we all know what sounds cool and Rick plays those chord progressions in front of us like we are just hanging out in his studio together. Keep it up, dude.

@HabAnagarek 9 месяцев назад

Watching and listening to you play the Beatles on an acoustic guitar, seemingly from memory, is a thing of awe and wonder. Nearly brings me to tears.

@Moluccan56 8 месяцев назад

Agree.

@user-rm2ex2gy7i 8 месяцев назад

Strawberry Fields is hands down the most harmonically sophisticated song the Beatles recorded. Lennon doesn't get enough props as a composer/musician. The common thread is that McCartney was the musician and Lennon was more of a Lyricist who played some basic guitar but many of his songs are devastating on a purely musical level.

@jerrystrull 8 месяцев назад

I first think of Harrison's "I Want To Tell You" when I think of complex Beatle songs.

@Antonocon 9 месяцев назад

There's something magical about seeing you go through all these chord progressions.

@realcygnus 9 месяцев назад

If virtually any Beatles tune doesn't blow your mind after having even a basic understating of songwriting, you gotta be in the wrong game. Not that much older genres/styles weren't already more sophisticated in certain aspects but its just a matter of blending simplicity/interest/surprise in a way that's clearly complete, pretty much irrelevant(but not necessarily so) of style or musicianship IMO. Writing genius will speak for itself no matter how good you are.

@peterfitton4529 9 месяцев назад

The song itself may not sound particularly complicated, but the chord sequence to Michelle is phenomenally sophisticated. It's transcribed incorrectly, or been simplified, on many websites, vut what McCartney actually wrote is harmonically extremely complex.

@user-cb2dt7yw1j 8 месяцев назад

Within You, Without You is the most revolutionary song to appear in The Beatles entire history.

@egacosta 9 месяцев назад

Every time I hear this type of analysis... I get more and more overwhelmed about The Beatles. Musicians in their 20s writing this music. It's mind-blowing. More reasons of why they were, in my opinion, the greatest band in modern music. Modern classical music.

@GT380man 9 месяцев назад

I used to have the same reaction until it occurred to me that it was remarkable only if they actually wrote what we’re told they wrote. Unfortunately they didn’t. Problem solved.

@marilynkoehr6179 8 месяцев назад

You didnt mind saying it,@@GT380man, now let's see you prove it.

@CrystallynRose 7 месяцев назад

@@GT380man Are you saying the Beatles didn't write their own music? Who did then?

@1976oswald 9 месяцев назад

"within you without you" for that indian percussion the most complex song by them to me

@dennisgunn468 8 месяцев назад

There is also the additional rhythmic complexity during the chorus of “Something”.

@winstonbbailey8740 7 месяцев назад

this is one of the greatest videos that i've ever seen. this dude is so fluid and makes these songs with these very unusual chord changes seem just effortless, and the BEST PART - is that he makes me excited about learning the song that he just SHOWED ME HOW TO PLAY. I love the beatles so much, and I had gotten to a point where I thought that I couldn't possibly love the beatles any more, and then I watched this video, and well... it's like I just got a love letter from the beatles if they were the hottest girl and just at the moment when I was finishing the most genuinely touching and heartfelt poetic love letter from the most beautiful girl with whom I have only just fallen in love with three days ago, suddenly and unexpectely a photograph falls out of the envelope. and it's a really, really good photograph.

@adyhartmusic 9 месяцев назад

John would be honoured that 43 years after his untimely death we would still be discussing and trying to figure out his amazing songs ❤

@danstone8783 9 месяцев назад

Or he would say "What's bloody wrong with you people? Why don't you get on with your lives instead of fussing on about decades old songs?"

@Quinceps 9 месяцев назад

Tomorrow Never Knows.

@mccloysong 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely, yes he would! This one is George's though.

@tugglesthe1st85 9 месяцев назад

@@danstone8783 hehe, pretty much

@Jantonov1 9 месяцев назад

@@danstone8783 Being John, he'd definitely say both. at different times.

@whycantiremainanonymous8091 9 месяцев назад

I played I am the Walrus to my kids. They're 6 and 8 now, but that was about half a year ago. They loved it, and asked for more. Who said kids today can't appreciate good music?

@pierlu5083 8 месяцев назад

"Penny Lane", with its verse in B major and the chorus in A major, is a rare example of downward key change...despite the downward step of the tonality the melody keeps going up creating a very suggestive effect... on the other hand "Strawberry field forever" brings you to a totally different world, escaping the tonality for a little while using non diatonic chords...brilliant songwriting‼️ Lennon/Mccartney 🔝

@NoelRox 8 месяцев назад

You could teach this to all the trap lovers out there and still get the sentence “Beatles have written only pop catchy songs”

@pierlu5083 8 месяцев назад

@@NoelRox... and usually the ones they wish they'd written themselves😁...songs that stand the test of time👌

@NoelRox 8 месяцев назад

@@pierlu5083 don’t know my friend, I think they don’t like the ones writing original songs, they like coverbands a lot more and that’s why bands such as maneskin seem to work fine nowadays

@pierlu5083 8 месяцев назад

@@NoelRox I get your point my friend😊...maneskin covers are good in their own way but surely not as great as they think they are, not by a long shot (anyway if people like them i won't yuck their yum) ...hope the new generations don't get too blinded by the smokes and mirrors of the media hype (anyone can be famous nowdays)...Rick Beato in this video is still talking of songs like Penny Lane and Strawberry fields, even if they were written 56 years ago..🤯😃 ...and that says it all!!! I remember a song from the late Jimi Hendrix that said: "...and so castles made of sand melt into the sea...eventually"...i think it's a good metaphor....👌😊

@vazquezramon3830 8 месяцев назад

I agree with what you said. I also do like "Baby'ss in black", "Yer Blues", "Helter Skelter", " Martha My Dear", "Old Brown Shoe", " Golden Slumbers", "Sexy Sadie", "Because" (of course), " Within You, Without You". Actually, quite all of them except Yellow Submarine

@JumpingCow 9 месяцев назад

You are such an accomplished guitar player, Rick. I love watching you pounce on these ingenious songs. And I know how hard they are to play.

@woody1797 9 месяцев назад

The Beatles really are in the musical DNA of most Americans who grew up in their era. I am Rick's age. While he was playing and singing Penny Lane; unconsciously, I automatically started humming the vocal harmony part.

@celt67 9 месяцев назад

Haha...I whistled the trumpet part😂

@carlisle3469 9 месяцев назад

Yes. As everyone is quite aware, their songs are like Christmas carols--embedded in our heads!

@woody1797 9 месяцев назад

@@celt67 😗😄

@sethjaeger123 9 месяцев назад

Like in “Sliding Doors” where a character says we should call them The Fetals because we all know them from birth.

@U2WB 8 месяцев назад

I think Because is the most brilliant vocal masterpiece I've ever heard in my lifetime.

@gerrycoogan6544 7 месяцев назад

Hey there, @RickBeato! Just for your information -- that descending figure between the chorus and verse of Strawberry Fields is not played on a Stratocaster. It's an Indian instrument called a swarmandal, which is similar to a zither. Unsurprisingly, it was George who played it. Speaking of George, I would suggest that "Within You Without You" and "Love You To" should have at least got honourable mentions in the consideration of the most complex Beatles songs.

@bc5295 9 месяцев назад

Great to see the sophistication of Lennon given its due. There's a school of thought that Macca was the musically sophisticated one. They were all geniuses and the originality of Lennon's rhythmic and harmonic creativity is still under-appreciated. I believe Dave Gilmour said The Beatles were not a band, they were a miracle. Hear hear.

@jaxteller312 8 месяцев назад

mccartney is overrated

@jamesleeStanley 8 месяцев назад

@@jaxteller312said someone with no clue

@jaxteller312 8 месяцев назад

@@jamesleeStanley said someone who thinks everyone should like their interests...if you like his cheesy songs good for you,i don't and for me he is overrated

@binodkgurung2106 8 месяцев назад

Why're you here?

@SchlockstarJoe 9 месяцев назад

Beatles really are magic. It doesn’t take long, going from analyzing to just having fun appreciating.

@andrewmartin9182 7 месяцев назад

Since the day I first heard both Strawberry Fields and I am the Walrus, I have never been able to comprehend how someone could write those songs. And I mean those two in particular. Was cool to see Rick agree. I am the Walrus, not only is musically unbelievable, it also rocks. In my head those two have always been the proof that this guy, painful as a man as he seems to have been, was also a genius. The chord changes dont lie. Nor did the sound of his as always pitch perfect vocals, with just the hint of a growl. He nailed it. I like Paul, hey who doesn't, but this was some next level rockstar sh##!

@richie48732 8 месяцев назад

as a 14 year old boy I bought a Piano for 50,- DM - but couldn't afford a guy for tuning it… so I tried to tune it by myself and my ears learned a lot about hearing notes, intervals and chords. some years later I studied music (classical guitar) for 7 years and I wondered that some of the other students couldn't hear and analyze chords by ear - for me it was normal because when my piano was nearly in tune I learned to play J.S Bach from a LP " Jacques Loussier plays Bach" - it was the best time for me, 'cause I learned to listen (again & again:) and play the tunes afterwards.

@DreamsongsProductions 9 месяцев назад

Someone said "Beatles"? I'm all in....I absolutely loved The Beatles since I was a little kid. I don't think I've ever gone a week in the last 50 years without listening to at least one Beatles song....

@whichgodofthousandsmeansno5306 9 месяцев назад

"Something" is just one of those great timeless songs. But also to consider "While my guitar gently weeps" and "Here Comes The Sun" as well as other Harrison songs.. Well when you consider the quantity and quality of songs that "Lennon/McCartney" could pull off no one can take anything away from Harrison when even the other members have admitted that George pulled off the best songs on some of their best albums. And this is before even analyzing the brilliance.

@veritas41photo 7 месяцев назад

You are so right.... I think George was, ultimately, the best songwriter of the Beatles. His songs are definitely different than those of John and Paul, almost a different genre entirely. "Beware of Darkness" (after the breakup) ranks as one of my favorites.

@frankludwig314 7 месяцев назад

I enjoyed this immensely. In a 20+ year music teaching career I often tried to explain why the Beatles songs were so revolutionary after decades of I-IV-V-I songs, but don't feel I conveyed it clearly for the newer generations (although a number of my students are now professional musicians). I also share your enthusiasm for intervals for ear training and in creating original melodic contours. Well Done!

@marcwilliams7605 8 месяцев назад

Rick, I love every video you do. There is always something in it that can be taken away, studied, contemplated or directly applied. Just watching you ups my guitar game.

@eyeflow 9 месяцев назад

Harmony is the ocean that melody sets sail on... love it! As I love the Beatles!

@HackneyShark 9 месяцев назад

Some of the earlier songs are really sophisticated when you break them down. If I Fell, It Won't Be Long, etc...

@ThisBirdHasFlown 9 месяцев назад

Totally. So overlooked in these conversations. People always underestimate early Beatles.

@mikekasser8424 9 месяцев назад

It's only a Northen Song.

@mikekasser8424 9 месяцев назад

Penny lane to sunny afternoon by the kinks.That walk down is similar.

@TheBeatlesWoW 8 месяцев назад

Simple or complex...pure genius

@aalbi2781 6 месяцев назад

Your masterful breakdown of these songs is very inspiring. The Beatles were from some celestial realm and their music other-worldly. So lucky to be alive to hear such blissful tunes. Not to mention they also heralded an appreciation for international music and Eastern wisdom.