Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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The Beatles
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Produced by George Martin
Engineered by Geoff Emerick

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Each of four original master tracks is isolated and shown in a different colour.*

(1) GREEN ___________ 0:00
Drums, 2 guitars, and bass

(2) BLUE _____________ 2:24
Horns and punched-in lead guitar

(3) RED ______________ 4:40
Vocals

(4) YELLOW*
Audience sounds
With (1), (2), and (3)*____ 6:54

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The following Information is from the books "The Beatles Recording Sessions" by Mark Lewisohn; and "Recording the Beatles" by Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan.

This song was recorded in February 1967, using TWO 4-track machines. After recording tracks onto the first tape machine, the recording was then mixed onto the 2nd tape machine.

This technique was called "bouncing". It referred to the use of a second tape machine to combine tracks from the first machine. This freed up one or more tracks to add additional instruments. In those days, this technique was used to overcome a limitation of 4-track recording equipment. Nowadays, modern multi-track and digital recording studios make such efforts unnecessary.
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2nd Tape Machine :
This "bounce" tape is what we are hearing.

Track 1 .. [ GREEN 0:00 ]
From (A), Tracks 1+2 (drums, guitars, and bass)

Track 2 .. [ BLUE 2:24 ]
Horns and punched-in lead guitar

Track 3 .. [ RED 4:40 ]
From (A), Tracks 3+4 (all vocals)

Track 4 .. [ YELLOW 6:54 ]
Audience sounds*
*Note: Audience track (yellow) is not shown alone. The last bit is all four tracks together.
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Additional info

1st Tape Machine : "Recorder (A)"
(Not heard in these clips. Information only.)
Track 1 .. Drums + Guitars
Track 2 .. Bass
Track 3 .. Lead + Harmony Vocals
Track 4 .. Additional Harmony Vocals

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[coolerruler1]

@ZumunYT Each Beatle experimented with different instruments for different songs, so it gets confusing on wich song used wich instrument.

[ZumunYT]

@coolerruler1 Thank You very much :) I thought it may be so but I know that he used many different guitars.

[coolerruler1]

@ZumunYT I think it was his Epiphone Casino.

[danielearwicker]

2:52 to 3:04 - ultimate ring tone.

[MrCrunchybizzle]

it's so amazing to me that this album was done on a 4 track... but back then that was the norm. All this technology today and i feel no matter how many tracks you can't beat good old fashioned songwriting, musicianship, and arrangement skills. plus analog instruments just have so much more life imo.

[ZumunYT]

What was the guitar George used in this song?

[gigisdad]

Paul's voice...holy shit.

[eyez2sea]

my god. so much tonal intricacy in the vocals. and this isnt even a song i would first think to go to for vocals. even what seems so subtle the beatles put full attention to. thats why they are what they are.

[EbenezarGold]

Very cool breakdown. Nice nasty guitars, playful horns...

[420thebeatles]

@eggmangoogoogoojoob nice username :)