If I had MY run with Giles at the Session Tapes, I'd want to hear the session takes, and pre-take "chatter," for the harmony guitar parts for "And Your Bird Can Sing"....I'm convinced that one of the harmony parts was capoed...the session tapes would verify this and more...
. Now, the secret to the chords sound on the recording is Paul's D note on his Hofner Bass.For a single guitar arrangement, play the opening chord as I've indicated above with your guitar in Drop D tuning (meaning, Drop tune your lowest string from E to D )...then strum ALL the strings at once ....you'll be amazed...it sounds PERFECT even on a 6 string!
While this sounds GREAT, it's just isn't correct! The session tapes, including all the takes and false starts , are available to those interested on-line. George and John played the same chord on the session and in concert. Here it is: (Low to high) X,X, 3,2,1,3 ....the X's mean that the top two strings are unplayed. As George described it in an on-line interview: it's an F with a G on top.
Don't shit your britches; it's just a way too big jazz chord. In fact, jazz musicians use this sort of stuff all the time, but THEY actual work it into the middle of the song.
@madgeniusmusic its easy. Make an f chord...use your pinky for the G on the 1st string and your third finger to fret the C on the 5th string. Use your thumb to fret the G on the sixth string and Bobs your uncle.
"The Beatles - Complete Scores" is loaded with liberties and inaccuracies, as anyone who takes the time to actually scrutinize videos of the Beatles playing (as I have) will discover. It's a good starting point, but far from perfect. FYI
If you play with the song, it's spot on. My information comes from Hal Leonard's (The Complete Scores - Beatles). This book is known world wide as the best book on the Beatles.
@MarksMusic33 Really? Known world wide? I know people who have that book, and it's loaded with things that are flat-out wrong. It's somebody's well-attempted transcription, but you just have to listen to their records over and over if you really want to get those songs right. The early Beatle songs are often touted as the "simpler" ones. I thought that myself as a kid. But they are darn clever.
@MarksMusic33 pretty sure the chord is voiced 333563 - making it an inverted Fsus2 chord. The Ds you've added on strings 2 and 5 are in the other guitar and the bass.
Sounds pretty good to me. And Randy has the pedigree to understand the notes and chord structures. I bet Paul would have a pretty good idea...maybe somebody should ask him.
@jewishcrimenetwork He doesn't own the tapes... they are in a sealed room in the EMI studios (Abbey Road studio). fun fact: harmonix had to use low quality tracks for the RB:The Beatles and they whole designing/developing team of Harmonix had to travel all the way from USA to England...
@jewishcrimenetwork This is Randy Bachman. He knows exactly what he has in his hands. That's why he requested to hear that specifically. He isn't really in need to sell off beatles tracks for money.
@meewsic Hahaha! Tavistock indeed....it's only music and entertainment.......it can't be that bad! Behold, the darkness abounds in the masquerade of lights!
That chord still sends shivers down my back even all these years later. Hands down, Beatles changed the face of rock music and will still influence musicians one hundred years from now!! ;)
Hello I assume it is a F cord add the G note on one guitar also someone is playing the G sus 7th cord ?( on another guitar ) are they struming up or down on the G sus 7th cord ?
Randy isn't duplicating what he heard at Abbey Road. The Love remix in out-of-phase stereo isolates Lennon's Fadd9 as 103213. No experienced guitar player would mistake that sound for Dsus4.
In this demo Randy alters the two Fadd9 chords to include essential low D and G notes from the PIANO part. But it should be a real piano with the sustain pedal held down and all below 100Hz filtered out. Dozens of undamped strings producing multiple audible harmonics.
Plus if you listen very closely, you can differentiate the sound of the janggly guitar strings, and there is a distinct piano chord sound, a sound no other instrument can make. It's just covered up by the guitars like moss covers rock. But you can still hear it. Even this guy can't replicate that distinct sound, because it's not a guitar.
Very true, as George Martin played a D2 G2 D3 chord on the piano while both George and John played an Fadd9 on a Rick 12string and Gibson J-160E, respectively. They did get the D at the 12th fret that Paul played on the bass.
A piano must have in fact been used, because the sound is so thick, but the guitars sound too thin. The Beatles used a clean setting on their guitars, and any guitarist could tell you clean Rickenbachers are janggly and thin as hell.
The Jesus Chord. A true riddle of a gift that just keeps on giving with controversy. Can anyone imagine any other band's music being dissected to this extent. An unmatched musical legacy forever.
What is so cool, is that he is the same age as the Beatles (only 2 years younger than John) and was hugely popular in his own right the 60's and 70's, yet he still gets excited as if they were his heroes. Nice!
The best part of this little musical story is not the deconstruction of the chord, but how a recognized artist like Randy Bachman cracks up like a child when the crowd shares the revelation. What a wonderful musical soul he has.
There was a analysis that claimed a piano must have been used because there was an F note which was "impossible to play with the other notes on the guitar." However, Randy tells us and demonstrates that an F note is indeed included in George's guitar chord. This blows the "impossible to play" premise out of the water and brings into question the conclusion that a piano was used. Google for:
Beatles Unknown "A Hard Day's Night" Chord Mystery Solved Using Fourier Transform
Fantastic revelation! What is cooler, though, is to hear that all of the Beatles' individual tracks are on ProTools somewhere. What I'd love to hear is that they're releasing them for DIY guys to re-mix. I bet we'd come up with some amazing sh*t if they did that.
It's a D Minor 11th....duh!...known it for ages...and on the record George Martin is playing the chord on the upright piano as well. It was recorded separately and edited on to the front of the take on the record, which is actually edited from three different takes as was the custom in the Beatles recording sessions right up until the end,
The Beatles had phenomenal intros to all of their songs. Listen closely to each of their compositions. Bachmann does a very good presentation here. Gotta save this one.
@Molanda - great upload ! I have not read all 220 comments to see if anyone else noticed this, but right after Randy says "but you put a G on top" at the 57 second mark, he plucks these 4 notes in sequence - a G, C, A (on top) and F which is a bit confusing since he said the G was on top. He does not play that A again when continuing on, nor when he does the final strum as the G is indeed on top. Just not sure why he plucked the A during the take apart explanation of the chord.
@denparrish Thanks. So, it seems bit confused. But he was on a 12-string guitar. When he played the G on top the 2 strings sounds the same. When he played the C the two strings sound the same. But when he played A (on top) and F on the 4th string, the strings are tuned an octave apart.
Yes, we have a very strong Beatles fanatic, claiming that George Martin did in fact play the piano during this opening chord, so is essence, he is calling the son of George Martin a liar.
Perhaps, the son of George Martin can comment, or ask his father (if the father is still alive).
He's missing the piano, which is literally the loudest thing in the entire chord, and because the entire rhythm section is all on one track, there is no way he could hear John's part by itself, Paul's part by itself, etc. The piano was an overdub so maybe taking the piano out helped hear things more clearly.
@MickolasCage You make a small barre with your ring finger first bone phalanx on the E A and D string 3rd position, G string is open, index finger on B string first fret and pinkie on the high E string 3rd fret. Kinda old school chord.
@MickolasCage HaHaHa! Good one. I don't have ginormous thumbs, but trust me, you can do it. May feel odd at first. Practice the position by wrapping the tumb onto the top three strings first. Barre the lower three strings on second fret with your index finger and barre the lower two strings on third fret with your ring finger. Hope that helps.
Oh, and fanzappa, you're spouting almost direct quotes from interviews I've heard with Frank Zappa describing classical music. This doesn't make you smart, only a dictaphone.
All you guys can argue about whatever you want, but I've listened to this a bunch of times and every time he hits that chord it cracks me up. Maybe Martin played a note on the piano...who GIVES a shit, it's wonderful!
One of my colleagues has A Hard Day's Night as his ringtone and when it went off I immediately started signing. I was so very disappointed to be the only one to recognize the chord, none of my other colleagues got it.
Very Cool. I think it sounds dead on. The later Beatles can be really tough because of the editing. Speeding tracks while slowing others, etc. The Beatles, George Martin, Recording Engineers. All genius. They came together like a perfect storm and there will never be another.
@SuperGogetem yes you could write it out like that, although George is on record several times as calling it an "F with a G on top" not mentioning a G on the bottom. The overall bass note of the chord is D, played by Paul...
from what i'e read the F note is played on a piano by geo martin. some scientist used fourier transform to deduce the frequencies. google it. i can't supply a link here.
@fanzappa Do you prefer believe in "scientific facts" from a computer? Computers are programmed by humans. Randy was there. He heard the tapes. The "computer" didn't. I rest my case. :)
@Guitarisforgrins guitarforgrins, Perhaps YOU are the jackass. How can you not find pleasure in breaking down and recreating that amazing opening chord?
@pudwhistle I do find pleasure in that. What are you talking about? I was making fun of the dude calling this person in the video 'Randy Rhodes' instead of 'Randy Bachman.'
@pudwhistle If you were not imaged in the first place is how you could not find pleasure in breaking it down. Come on, even nearly universal music leads some people cold.
@fanzappa From what I gathered the second guitar (George,) was playing an F on the D string. Bottom to top - G on the low E string, C on the A string, F on the D string, A on the G string, C on the B string, and G on the high E string. Guess that's why this has been quite the controversy for years. You listened to Randy talking on the video?
wow That was great.. the Beatles were so creative and original...and YUP that really and truly was the exact chord.. !!! and I do understand it .. I play guitar..The Beatles was one of the reasons I started playing
he sounds a little like frank zappa.
presidenttrusko 16 hours ago
Well.....turn me on dead man!
captbanjo1 2 days ago
CRAZY
TheAnomaly52 1 week ago
If I had MY run with Giles at the Session Tapes, I'd want to hear the session takes, and pre-take "chatter," for the harmony guitar parts for "And Your Bird Can Sing"....I'm convinced that one of the harmony parts was capoed...the session tapes would verify this and more...
MillerThriller66 1 week ago
. Now, the secret to the chords sound on the recording is Paul's D note on his Hofner Bass.For a single guitar arrangement, play the opening chord as I've indicated above with your guitar in Drop D tuning (meaning, Drop tune your lowest string from E to D )...then strum ALL the strings at once ....you'll be amazed...it sounds PERFECT even on a 6 string!
MillerThriller66 1 week ago
While this sounds GREAT, it's just isn't correct! The session tapes, including all the takes and false starts , are available to those interested on-line. George and John played the same chord on the session and in concert. Here it is: (Low to high) X,X, 3,2,1,3 ....the X's mean that the top two strings are unplayed. As George described it in an on-line interview: it's an F with a G on top.
MillerThriller66 1 week ago
freaking goosebumps!!!!!
dlbmn70 1 week ago
E 3 (Ring Finger)
A 2 (Middle finger)
D 0
G 0
B 1 (Index Finger)
E 3 (Pinky)
RoyKidman3 1 week ago
@RoyKidman3
A 3, not A 2.
molanda 1 week ago
@molanda nope. A2. "Put a C next to that G" it sounds right too.
RoyKidman3 1 week ago
@RoyKidman3 Stand corrected. youre right xD
RoyKidman3 1 week ago
@RoyKidman3 :)
molanda 1 week ago
@RoyKidman3
Randy said: "Put a C next to that G".
So, if G=E3, then C=A3.
molanda 1 week ago
@alexmcginness lol, i cant pull off the thumb on the 3rd fret, it makes my barre finger move
TehAnthrax 2 weeks ago
@alexmcginess lol, i cant pull off the thumb, if makes my barre finger move
TehAnthrax 2 weeks ago
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Shomi701 3 weeks ago
Don't shit your britches; it's just a way too big jazz chord. In fact, jazz musicians use this sort of stuff all the time, but THEY actual work it into the middle of the song.
mss11235 4 weeks ago
has anyone got the fingering the the F chord that he's describing?
madgeniusmusic 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@madgeniusmusic the way he describes it I would say it was 333213 with the bottom G note covered by the thumb.
zarzoff62 3 weeks ago
@madgeniusmusic its easy. Make an f chord...use your pinky for the G on the 1st string and your third finger to fret the C on the 5th string. Use your thumb to fret the G on the sixth string and Bobs your uncle.
alexmcginness 2 weeks ago
amazing
kaitlinan 1 month ago
Awesome.
Procrastina777 1 month ago
Woooooooow ---- an amazing chord !!
DONGOE 1 month ago
u should've seen my reaction. seriously.
sorryeyebrows77 1 month ago
HELL YES!!!
dieselheart001 1 month ago
so would this be a G7sus4?
I dont have a guitar with me but i'm imagining the notes right now...first i came up with F6 add 2 XD
awallflowerpunch 1 month ago
@awallflowerpunch
There's no A in a G7sus4. It's more like a Dm7add11.
reverendflash 3 weeks ago
"The Beatles - Complete Scores" is loaded with liberties and inaccuracies, as anyone who takes the time to actually scrutinize videos of the Beatles playing (as I have) will discover. It's a good starting point, but far from perfect. FYI
tubad4ya66 1 month ago
it is my first Beatle track... first time I heard this chord and then it changed my life ever since.... collecting all beatle-record...
bowiedj 1 month ago
If you play with the song, it's spot on. My information comes from Hal Leonard's (The Complete Scores - Beatles). This book is known world wide as the best book on the Beatles.
MarksMusic33 1 month ago
@MarksMusic33 Really? Known world wide? I know people who have that book, and it's loaded with things that are flat-out wrong. It's somebody's well-attempted transcription, but you just have to listen to their records over and over if you really want to get those songs right. The early Beatle songs are often touted as the "simpler" ones. I thought that myself as a kid. But they are darn clever.
cowsongs 1 month ago in playlist Bachman
Gsus4.............355533............xx0013.........It's the same notes doubled. What makes it sound full is the 12 string 355533
MarksMusic33 1 month ago
@MarksMusic33 pretty sure the chord is voiced 333563 - making it an inverted Fsus2 chord. The Ds you've added on strings 2 and 5 are in the other guitar and the bass.
thompashworth 1 month ago
Where is this from? A podcast? Internet radio show?
I'd be real grateful for some info. I might be missing out on
something terrific.
bobgure 1 month ago
@bobgure podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/vinyltapstreaming_20100913_38108.mp3
:)
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MissAimee1993 1 month ago
Great discovery!!
fistchips 1 month ago
btw, what episode was this? because i want to hear it completely :)
zeromant80 1 month ago
@zeromant80 podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/vinyltapstreaming_20100913_38108.mp3
molanda 1 month ago
@molanda 404 error (not found)... im trying to find it on the list but i cant T___T
zeromant80 1 month ago
@zeromant80 Really? I'm listening it right now!
molanda 1 month ago
@molanda Maybe it doesn't work because: My web browser? or maybe because it's a direct link?
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molanda 1 month ago
"I have all the Beatles source tapes here on the computer. What do you want to hear?" I can't even comprehend having an opportunity like that.
JDBeatlefan 1 month ago 7
yes, geroge martin plays an F chord on piano too, but it's mixed really "under" the two guitars and bass.
Fredrockroll 1 month ago
well they had a piano.
MVrockersPS3 1 month ago
George Martin also played piano on the opening. Why does he not mention this?
TCBINAFLASH1 2 months ago
Way cool, thank you.
AwesomeBeatles 2 months ago
Randy Bachman is correct: that is
the correct combination on each
instrument, played together.
chiliboots 2 months ago
opps sorry ment D minor11 (G is the 11th, e is the 9th.)
XIIXCECXIIX 2 months ago
Thats a D minor9... voiced in fourths on the bottom, so D, G, C, F, A, C, G or something like that.
XIIXCECXIIX 2 months ago
Sounds pretty good to me. And Randy has the pedigree to understand the notes and chord structures. I bet Paul would have a pretty good idea...maybe somebody should ask him.
sarobinson56 2 months ago
That recording tract by tract could be sold in the millions. The guy doesn't know what he's got in his hands.
jewishcrimenetwork 2 months ago
@jewishcrimenetwork Of course he knows. He does not have the tape. He just listened it.
molanda 2 months ago
@molanda I mean George Martin's son who has the tapes track by track in computer could make a killing selling them.
Many fans would buy them to listen it track by track and fell how the recording must have fell.
jewishcrimenetwork 2 months ago
@molanda I meant George Martin's son who OWNS the tapes with individiual tracks.
jewishcrimenetwork 2 months ago
@jewishcrimenetwork Does he owns the tapes? Who said?
molanda 2 months ago
@jewishcrimenetwork he does not own them, he just have acess to them.
Fredrockroll 1 month ago
@jewishcrimenetwork He doesn't own the tapes... they are in a sealed room in the EMI studios (Abbey Road studio). fun fact: harmonix had to use low quality tracks for the RB:The Beatles and they whole designing/developing team of Harmonix had to travel all the way from USA to England...
zeromant80 1 month ago
@jewishcrimenetwork what's a tract?
bag2289 2 months ago
@bag2289 track.
jewishcrimenetwork 2 months ago
@jewishcrimenetwork This is Randy Bachman. He knows exactly what he has in his hands. That's why he requested to hear that specifically. He isn't really in need to sell off beatles tracks for money.
moonunitenar 1 month ago
@jewishcrimenetwork It was at abbey road studios of course he knows what its worth you fucking simpleton
MrBobbyfilm 1 month ago
Ahh, the things Tavistock came up with.
meewsic 2 months ago 5
@meewsic Hahaha! Tavistock indeed....it's only music and entertainment.......it can't be that bad! Behold, the darkness abounds in the masquerade of lights!
bolerkins 2 months ago
Ahh, the things 4 guys sitting around smoking marijuana can come up with that still amaze us today.
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@Lawsperry Tell me more about this marijuana you speak of. Sounds pretty hip.
nebogipfel11 2 months ago
That chord still sends shivers down my back even all these years later. Hands down, Beatles changed the face of rock music and will still influence musicians one hundred years from now!! ;)
Thanks Randy for clearing this up!
PeterPug007 2 months ago
Nothing like the original!
ToryBoy55 2 months ago
@ToryBoy55 explain? Sounds pretty dead on to me, perhaps different guitar tone?
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Spot on.
mferrusca 2 months ago
who the hell can put a dislike on something like this? 26 people have a sucky life..
thank you Randy for solving the enigma ..
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EduardoCastillo94 2 months ago
Hello I assume it is a F cord add the G note on one guitar also someone is playing the G sus 7th cord ?( on another guitar ) are they struming up or down on the G sus 7th cord ?
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juggert 2 months ago
Randy isn't duplicating what he heard at Abbey Road. The Love remix in out-of-phase stereo isolates Lennon's Fadd9 as 103213. No experienced guitar player would mistake that sound for Dsus4.
In this demo Randy alters the two Fadd9 chords to include essential low D and G notes from the PIANO part. But it should be a real piano with the sustain pedal held down and all below 100Hz filtered out. Dozens of undamped strings producing multiple audible harmonics.
more info: ahdnchord google sites
waynusofuranus 2 months ago
So now I kinda know! Wish the whole song was here. Sounded pretty good.
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TheAlterCat 2 months ago 2
Plus if you listen very closely, you can differentiate the sound of the janggly guitar strings, and there is a distinct piano chord sound, a sound no other instrument can make. It's just covered up by the guitars like moss covers rock. But you can still hear it. Even this guy can't replicate that distinct sound, because it's not a guitar.
HarrisonPaniszczyn 2 months ago
@HarrisonPaniszczyn
Very true, as George Martin played a D2 G2 D3 chord on the piano while both George and John played an Fadd9 on a Rick 12string and Gibson J-160E, respectively. They did get the D at the 12th fret that Paul played on the bass.
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A piano must have in fact been used, because the sound is so thick, but the guitars sound too thin. The Beatles used a clean setting on their guitars, and any guitarist could tell you clean Rickenbachers are janggly and thin as hell.
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h879xx 2 months ago
The Jesus Chord. A true riddle of a gift that just keeps on giving with controversy. Can anyone imagine any other band's music being dissected to this extent. An unmatched musical legacy forever.
swensev 2 months ago
No - Gsus7/d equals Dm11
discoguitar 2 months ago
G SUS 7
CaptainPrivate 2 months ago
G7sus4 is the chord for solo acoustic, I have the complete Beatles songbook right next to me.
gringolazlo 2 months ago
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SydbarF 2 months ago
What is so cool, is that he is the same age as the Beatles (only 2 years younger than John) and was hugely popular in his own right the 60's and 70's, yet he still gets excited as if they were his heroes. Nice!
jabby63 2 months ago
The best part of this little musical story is not the deconstruction of the chord, but how a recognized artist like Randy Bachman cracks up like a child when the crowd shares the revelation. What a wonderful musical soul he has.
MondayMeadows 2 months ago 3
George's G11? over John's Dsus/ enharmonic as G add 9 (no b7)? = basically G7 sus? cool any way you call it
djangoshmango 2 months ago
There was a analysis that claimed a piano must have been used because there was an F note which was "impossible to play with the other notes on the guitar." However, Randy tells us and demonstrates that an F note is indeed included in George's guitar chord. This blows the "impossible to play" premise out of the water and brings into question the conclusion that a piano was used. Google for:
Beatles Unknown "A Hard Day's Night" Chord Mystery Solved Using Fourier Transform
warnergt 2 months ago
Fantastic revelation! What is cooler, though, is to hear that all of the Beatles' individual tracks are on ProTools somewhere. What I'd love to hear is that they're releasing them for DIY guys to re-mix. I bet we'd come up with some amazing sh*t if they did that.
pgoggins 2 months ago
There is a piano also on the original recording.
TZKeyz 2 months ago
The chord sounds like it needs to be resolved and is being resolved at the same time.
abutnotantisocial 2 months ago
oh. wow.
spitfirefrench 2 months ago
CoooooooooL!!!
sweettunes1000 2 months ago
It's a D Minor 11th....duh!...known it for ages...and on the record George Martin is playing the chord on the upright piano as well. It was recorded separately and edited on to the front of the take on the record, which is actually edited from three different takes as was the custom in the Beatles recording sessions right up until the end,
jfredknobloch 2 months ago
The Beatles had phenomenal intros to all of their songs. Listen closely to each of their compositions. Bachmann does a very good presentation here. Gotta save this one.
terrafirma91 2 months ago
This is like getting the lost book of the Bible in the mail or something, the one with the "water-to-wine" recipe!
ericgarlandbass 2 months ago 28
@molanda, ah yes, I forgot about the octaves on the 3rd thru 6th strings! Thanks for clearing that up.
denparrish 2 months ago
@Molanda - great upload ! I have not read all 220 comments to see if anyone else noticed this, but right after Randy says "but you put a G on top" at the 57 second mark, he plucks these 4 notes in sequence - a G, C, A (on top) and F which is a bit confusing since he said the G was on top. He does not play that A again when continuing on, nor when he does the final strum as the G is indeed on top. Just not sure why he plucked the A during the take apart explanation of the chord.
denparrish 2 months ago
@denparrish Thanks. So, it seems bit confused. But he was on a 12-string guitar. When he played the G on top the 2 strings sounds the same. When he played the C the two strings sound the same. But when he played A (on top) and F on the 4th string, the strings are tuned an octave apart.
molanda 2 months ago
@denparrish
slash sent me here!!!!!
i thought jimi had the most famous chord! i guess i was wrong!!!!
MONKEYBOY6314 2 months ago
This is the REAL chord with the piano, going to post a video on it pretty soon ;) /watch?v=MJV2sfrO6qA
imcarrying 2 months ago in playlist INTERESTING
I Disagree with Randy...A Day in the Life is the Greatest Sounding Chord of All Time...
sndvl1527 2 months ago
@sndvl1527 He said: "the most famous chord ever on a 12-STRING GUITAR".
:)
molanda 2 months ago 4
Yes, we have a very strong Beatles fanatic, claiming that George Martin did in fact play the piano during this opening chord, so is essence, he is calling the son of George Martin a liar.
Perhaps, the son of George Martin can comment, or ask his father (if the father is still alive).
beaconmike 2 months ago
He's missing the piano, which is literally the loudest thing in the entire chord, and because the entire rhythm section is all on one track, there is no way he could hear John's part by itself, Paul's part by itself, etc. The piano was an overdub so maybe taking the piano out helped hear things more clearly.
oceantracks 2 months ago
Absolutely fucking brilliant.
That chord turned me onto playing music almost 30 years ago,
hooragood 2 months ago
Great studio explanation. One of the better chords to approximate the HDN intro is G11sus4 in this position (standard tuning):
e: 3
B: 3
G: 2
D: 3
A: 3
E: 3
mackmor 2 months ago
@mackmor And how the hell do you play that chord, unless you have ginormous thumbs? :)
MickolasCage 2 months ago
@MickolasCage You make a small barre with your ring finger first bone phalanx on the E A and D string 3rd position, G string is open, index finger on B string first fret and pinkie on the high E string 3rd fret. Kinda old school chord.
imcarrying 2 months ago in playlist INTERESTING
@MickolasCage HaHaHa! Good one. I don't have ginormous thumbs, but trust me, you can do it. May feel odd at first. Practice the position by wrapping the tumb onto the top three strings first. Barre the lower three strings on second fret with your index finger and barre the lower two strings on third fret with your ring finger. Hope that helps.
mackmor 2 months ago
@mackmor Ok nice I tried both ways and after a half an hour of practice the thumb came out as favorite.. Nice one thanks a bunch!
MickolasCage 2 months ago
Oh, and fanzappa, you're spouting almost direct quotes from interviews I've heard with Frank Zappa describing classical music. This doesn't make you smart, only a dictaphone.
samswank 2 months ago
All you guys can argue about whatever you want, but I've listened to this a bunch of times and every time he hits that chord it cracks me up. Maybe Martin played a note on the piano...who GIVES a shit, it's wonderful!
samswank 2 months ago
One of my colleagues has A Hard Day's Night as his ringtone and when it went off I immediately started signing. I was so very disappointed to be the only one to recognize the chord, none of my other colleagues got it.
AARST 2 months ago
Very Cool. I think it sounds dead on. The later Beatles can be really tough because of the editing. Speeding tracks while slowing others, etc. The Beatles, George Martin, Recording Engineers. All genius. They came together like a perfect storm and there will never be another.
taxisteve929 2 months ago
so, would George's chord be written as Fadd9/G?
SuperGogetem 2 months ago
@SuperGogetem yes you could write it out like that, although George is on record several times as calling it an "F with a G on top" not mentioning a G on the bottom. The overall bass note of the chord is D, played by Paul...
oceantracks 2 months ago
Thank you for the coolest explanation of that chord. It is shocking to actually hear it live like that.
michaelcooper00 2 months ago
you mean to tell me they were just playing instruments! How genius!
Tkessify 2 months ago
from what i'e read the F note is played on a piano by geo martin. some scientist used fourier transform to deduce the frequencies. google it. i can't supply a link here.
go to science20
fanzappa 2 months ago
@fanzappa Randy in person heard the tape with the original recording. I do not think we need scientists in this case.
molanda 2 months ago 14
@molanda i've read that in other sources, as well. you think randy has as good hearing as a computer?
you must be a republican; not believing in scientific facts.
fanzappa 2 months ago
@fanzappa Do you prefer believe in "scientific facts" from a computer? Computers are programmed by humans. Randy was there. He heard the tapes. The "computer" didn't. I rest my case. :)
BTW, I'm not from USA. :)
molanda 2 months ago
@molanda belief in randy rhodes is not much of a case. disbelief in science is not just an american republican trait, is seems...
fanzappa 2 months ago
@fanzappa I believe in science, of course. But the computer doesn't play the chord, and Randy Bachman did. But I respect your opinion, of course. :)
molanda 2 months ago
@fanzappa Lol.. Randy Rhodes... what a jackass you are.
Guitarisforgrins 2 months ago
@Guitarisforgrins guitarforgrins, Perhaps YOU are the jackass. How can you not find pleasure in breaking down and recreating that amazing opening chord?
pudwhistle 2 months ago
@pudwhistle I do find pleasure in that. What are you talking about? I was making fun of the dude calling this person in the video 'Randy Rhodes' instead of 'Randy Bachman.'
What are you on about?
Guitarisforgrins 2 months ago
@pudwhistle If you were not imaged in the first place is how you could not find pleasure in breaking it down. Come on, even nearly universal music leads some people cold.
grayforester 2 months ago
@grayforester I really did write "amazed" and not imaged. Damn computer.
grayforester 2 months ago
@molanda go to "beatles bible" hard days night opening chord. you are on a computer: JFGI.
fanzappa 2 months ago
@fanzappa From what I gathered the second guitar (George,) was playing an F on the D string. Bottom to top - G on the low E string, C on the A string, F on the D string, A on the G string, C on the B string, and G on the high E string. Guess that's why this has been quite the controversy for years. You listened to Randy talking on the video?
Fulperformance 2 months ago
wow That was great.. the Beatles were so creative and original...and YUP that really and truly was the exact chord.. !!! and I do understand it .. I play guitar..The Beatles was one of the reasons I started playing
ichaffee1 2 months ago
Look at this video, looks like John is playing the Fadd9 not George.. Thx for giving us this information guys-!!
use this link in the youtube URL l0V3dDSYfIs
AbbeyvilleRoad 2 months ago
I'm such a sissy. I got tears in my eyes when they struck the chords!
PirateElin 2 months ago
WOW! :-))
robag71 2 months ago
I tried this tonight on stage. It's amazing. If you have a band, do this.
SmappleMcWingers 2 months ago
This is awesome!
MikeFederali 2 months ago