Blackbird Guitar Piece - Beatles

I realy like playing this song because it cheers me up, i hope it cheers you up aswell :D Enjoy this classic tune ! And sorry about the buzz, i forgot to unplug the charger :(

INFO:

"Blackbird" is a Beatles song from double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). Blackbird was written by Paul McCartney, who was inspired to write this while in India after a bird woke him up at six in the morning. McCartney said in 2002: "It was written when there were a lot of troubles in the southern states, over civil rights. I don't know if any of you know, but in England we sometimes call girls 'birds'... and I kind of wrote this song with that in mind."

The first night Linda Eastman, who would later become his wife, slept over, McCartney played it to the fans camped outside his house. Charles Manson took the song, along with "Helter Skelter" and "Piggies," as a metaphor for black and white race relations in the United States, which helped inspire his murders.

The song was recorded 11 June 1968 in Abbey Road studios, with George Martin as the producer and Geoff Emerick as the audio engineer. McCartney played a Martin D 28 acoustic guitar. The track includes recordings of a blackbird singing in the background.

McCartney revealed on PBS's Great Performances (Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road), aired in 2006, that the guitar accompaniment for Blackbird was inspired by Bach's Bouree in E minor, a well known classical guitar piece. As kids, he and George Harrison tried to learn Bouree as a "show off" piece. Bouree is distinguished by melody and bass notes played simultaneously on the upper and lower strings. McCartney adapted a segment of Bouree as the opening of "Blackbird," and carried the musical idea throughout the song.

According to Mark Lewisohn, the clicking sound on the track (left channel) which sounds like McCartney's foot tapping is a mechanical metronome.

In the 2006 album Love, "Blackbird" was used as an introduction to the song "Yesterday."

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[sanderjadda]

nice guitar, played it a bit wrong though:)

[metalmaniacemg]

Yea i know :/ Thanks anyway tho :)

[sk8r4lif394]

Very nice. I love your guitar too! :]

[metalmaniacemg]

Thanks mate :)

[truthlike]

You spelled piece wrong. ;)

[metalmaniacemg]

lol, thx for pointin it out

[WolfCall21]

Love this song ^^ Learned the like VERY first part... was pretty cool 4 never playing a guitar in my life. ^^ But i cant move my stupid hand fast... -_- :/

[MrKevin1a]

I like it, I used to play this one a lot, but now I only remember certain parts. I'm sure I could figure it out again though. Good job adding your own style to it.

[andyt9002]

I noticed you did the two finger picking method, really impressive. good job man

[IAmInLoveWithMyHorse]

spelt is not a word. Spelled is the correct way to write it.

[animatorstarter]

nice job! u missed a few notes and u were kind of off beat, but it was well done. I have been learning this song I think it's really fun to play

[truthlike]

Lookin' out for ya.