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07-10-2018, 07:28 AM
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Do You Want To Know A Secret: I remember the day at the supper table, when I was 10 or 11, just suddenly belting this out. Big family laughed with joy and Dad even said "he can sing". I'm a bad singer but that's a good memory of 53 years ago.
Lady Madonna: 1968, 4 years later, I'm a teenager hanging out with the gang, probably learned the lyrics started to notice how good Paul was on bass. 1971: got my first guitar. Found The Beatles very hard to learn but eventually did learn a fair bit of their songs. But I tended toward tunes by The Kinks, Stones, Hendrix. 
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07-10-2018, 08:12 AM
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Here comes the Sun--uplifting and beautiful. And I can play it.
Blackbird--uplifting, simple and beautiful. And I can play it.
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07-10-2018, 08:16 AM
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For me, two of the most enjoyable to play on guitar are Here Comes the Sun and Dear Prudence. I tried for years to get HCTS down but only after discovering Youtube was I able to finally get it down correctly. The wife definitely prefers that to my acoustic rendition of Tush.
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07-10-2018, 09:07 AM
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Blackbird - because it's so dang fun to play.
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07-10-2018, 09:11 AM
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“Something” because of its mature elegance and beauty, and masterful construction. It flows musically in the graceful way I think Harrison regarded his wife, model Patty Boyd, to be (the first of three classic rock songs to honor her charms — Clapton’s “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight” being the others). The lyrics are haunting and universal: “Something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover, something in the way she woos me,” but this isn’t dumbstruck infatuation. “I don’t want to leave her now, you know I believe and how,” and then the intensified uncertainty in the bridge: “You’re asking me will my love grow, I don’t know, I don’t know.”
The lift of the bridge from the key of C to A major intensifies the drama, resolving with a descending line in A, and the parallel transition back to C, followed by the most sensual guitar solo in the entire Beatles repertoire. The justaposition of the C and A harmonies make a brief reappearance just before the end, musically recalling and underscoring the song’s emotional duality. Then there’s McCartney’s masterfully expressive and supportive bass lines. Another noteworthy musical gesture is the strikingly original progression in the introductory hook (F-Eb-G7/D-C) — a descending pattern that prefigures the descending progressions that occur throughout the song: C-Cmaj7-C7 and Ami-C+/G#-C/G in the verses, and A-C#mi/G#-F#mi-F#mi/E, and the unsettling chromatically descending line from A, then the parallel but now stabilizing diatonic descending line from C that resolves the tension in the bridge, creating continuity and intuitive musical purpose throughout.
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07-10-2018, 09:16 AM
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Although not a huge Beatles fan, there's no denying their ability to write a multitude of great songs.
My favourite is probably "The Long and Winding Road" but if I could have one more it would be "Here Comes the Sun" perhaps . |
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07-10-2018, 10:33 AM
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Help and Back in the USSR.
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07-10-2018, 10:49 AM
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I've always liked the obscurities, maybe because I've only heard them dozens of times instead of hundreds. My vote goes for:
1. "I'm Only Sleeping" (in the US it was released on Yesterday and Today all of a month before Revolver came out.) 2. "Hey Bulldog" (from the Yellow Submarine soundtrack album and not included in any of their other albums in the 60's.) There is a great early take of I'm "Only Sleeping" on the Anthology series with some harmonies that didn't make the final cut, and a wonderful video of "Hey Bulldog" on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4vbJQ-MrKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMxLm0vCA
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07-10-2018, 11:40 AM
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I love the Beatles music, so this is an impossible assignment. However, I will offer up two songs that hit me. Pre-revolver would be "For No One". Just a catchy little tune. Post Revolver, "Everybody's Got Something to Hide 'cept me and My Monkey". Just great rock n' roll!
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07-10-2018, 11:48 AM
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First would be Let It Be. I bought the album shortly after it came out in 1970. I was not quite 14. I loved the whole album but Let It Be was my favorite. It tugs at my heartstrings.
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07-10-2018, 12:12 PM
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Favorite Beatles Song - well, that changes, sometimes from day to day, but one consistent frontrunner is
And Your Bird Can Sing just purely for the sound of it. Can you imagine, if the Beatles had never written it, and then this summer some band released that exact record, how people would be raving about it? |
