I Should Have Known Better - Acoustic Guitar

John´s acoustic guitar part from "I Should Have Known Better", released in 1964 as part of the A Hard Day´s Night LP. Played with an Epiphone EJ-160E.

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Music

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• Beatles
• Hard
• Days
• Night
• Epiphone
• EJ-160E
• John
• Lennon
• Paul
• McCartney
• George
• Harrison
• Ringo
• Starr

[vongibson1968]

Very nice guitar....and nice rendition. Curious....what kind of pick are you using and strings do you use:?

[mtorres767]

@vongibson1968 Thanks! By that time I was still using ordinary factory strings that already came with the guitar, but since then I favored D´Addario .11 flatwound electric guitar strings. As for the pick, it´s also pretty ordinary, just a Dunlop pick that I bought at a Queen show some years ago.

[powerpats]

how do you need to strum ? just down up down the whole time ?

[mtorres767]

Generally speaking, yes, it´s just a pretty simple up-down strumming. But John adds some interesting variations in the "And when I tell you that I love you" part, as, for example, at 0:47

[mtorres767]

@minpinful Hmmm, maybe a Gibson J-160 :)

[Triton33hn]

Ciao, muitos saludos do Centro America. I hope I wrote right. Great performance I love this song, it`sone of my favorites. I think you are missing a G7, in the bridge it goes Em-C-G-B7- Em-G-G7-C-D-G-Em-C-D. Try it.

[MauricioAE1]

Very easy and very nice guitar i love the sound.

[Beto2301zs]

me encabrona que saquen canciones acusticas con pista !!! estas son para tocarlas acapela y con voz !!! las pistas solo son para electricas o canciones de otro tipo !!!

[marycockburn1]

your  missing the G7 chord

[marycockburn1]

any chance we can hear you play some beatles with out playing over the original versions??

[ripitup325]

little black song book:(...........

[HoraceLime]

Pretty cool mister!

[invoxicated]

@JakiRuuska

Yes he did. In the studio. The movie was just mimed.

[invoxicated]

Your strumming pattern is not right. Listen to Lennons up swing and accents.