Let’s Talk More About the Beatles

room started [Music] [Applause] [Music] so you had to start to start out with the guitar because everybody always says i look like uh i don't know what's going on at the beginning of the streams so there we go there's the guitar it's a good way to enter in that'll be my new thing or something um so a lot of thoughts about the beatles documentary i've been talking to my friends uh about it and you guys can see my john lennon painting right there once again um and thank you for watching the my video on the documentary and for machi my tommy emmanuel video that came out this week and and frankly for all the the interview videos that have done so so well uh with uh pat metheny with ron carter with brian may with sting with um with tommy emanuel i mean these have been kind of a new thing on the channel i've been doing interviews since beginning the channel but not in this particular way i'm very psyched about it and thank you for those uh you know for for people who have have supported the channel um uh i'm extending my christmas sale or my black friday sale for two more days through tomorrow night at midnight i had a lot of people write to me that want to give the this as a christmas present and you know said oh i'm not getting paid until friday or whatever so i extended it until tomorrow night so if you just go to beattleblackfriday.com you'll find the um link to the sale it's everything that i've ever put out as far as educational content my ear training course my beauto book 4.0 my quick lessons guitar uh guitar program and then my 90 pdfs transcription pdfs it's like between the the biato book and the pdfs there's 700 plus pages something like that i mean a lot i mean this is a lot of stuff all together and uh i'm not going to run the sale again till next year that's why it's on the beauti blackfriday.com website uh okay so let's talk about some of these these things that um one of the things that i said in my video was that during the making of this when the beatles broke up no one had turned 30 yet and some a couple of people said oh yeah ringo was 30. well he wasn't actually with paul mccartney uh quit the band he sent out a letter in a press release on april 10 1970 that he was leaving the band okay ringo turned 30 on july 7th so three months later or so lennon didn't turn 30 until october 9th i'd gotten his birthday wrong in the video i said october 8th i apologize for that for you beatles fans um so to give you some perspective on when they were making this video in january of 1969 okay so during the making of this video um ringo was 28 not yet 29. john lennon was 28. paul was 26 not even 27 and george was 25. okay this is unbelievable think about that when abby road came out john and ringo were 29. paul was 28 or 20 was he 27 he was born in 1962. uh these guys were kids i mean i say kids but they didn't look like kids they were grown grown men you know they had experienced so much life they sure didn't look like they were that age right if you think of people nowadays living in their parents basement at 28 um you know the the beatles had been through so much and i want to talk about kind of the the a little bit about the history of the beatles and their recording career and just to put things in perspective and i'll i'll give you an example of somebody i interviewed recently sting was 27 when the first police record came out so sting was 27 he was born in 1951 first police record came out in 1978 andy summers was born in 1942 okay so he was 36 uh 35 when the first police record came out he's gonna be 79 i think it's december 31st of this month andy summers from the police will be 79. same age as paul mccartney that's pretty profound so john lennon i'm sorry sting uh when he did roxanne on the first record was the same age as well well paul was younger okay he was he was in between john and ringo and george george and john and ring john and ringo were a year older than sting when on the first police record okay um when the beatles uh played in hamburg and and hamburg in in 1960 60 to 62 when they were playing all those gigs they were george harrison was 17 you know when the beatles first record came out in 1962 please please me so i wrote this stuff down so john it came out march of 1963 excuse me please please me john was 22 ringo was 22. paul was 19 and george was 19 paul was not yet 20. okay uh on revolver that's like halfway through the beatles uh john was 26 ringo was 26 paul was 23 almost 24 and george was 23. now uh in 19 i just looked this up in 1965 okay during the calendar year of during one calendar year so if i look at the beatles discography this is really unbelievable you can go to the beatles discography at wikipedia and it gives you both the releases of the records that came out in the uk and the us releases which are different i mean they are different uh they have um studio albums 13 studio albums like kind of official studio albums okay so um so if you look at if you start with help okay so help was released in the uk on august 6 1965. all right then in december of 1965 december 3rd the beatles released rubber soul so between this is astounding between august and december the beatles wrote and recorded rubber soul okay then on um then on june 20th of 1966 six months later they released yesterday and today okay uh then on august 8th i'm sorry yesterday and today june 20th yes then on august 8th 1966 they released revolver okay so let's see yesterday and today so this was the the uk release june 15th 1966. uh so that was um track listing driving my car i'm only sleeping nowhere man okay some of these songs are kind of in between some of these songs were off revolver it was kind of a combination of these two different records here uh daytripper so there were some singles that were released uh yesterday act naturally um we can work it out so some of these songs were part of the um were singles and they were put on this record but essentially during one calendar year 365 days we had help we had yesterday and today which is some like a collection with singles we had rubber soul and we had revolver so that's writing and recording so think about it listen to get and these are really finished records right if you think about the rubber soul right you have eleanor rigby so the string quartet so that has to be that arrangement was written by george martin so that had to be put in that had to be recorded they had to bring in the people to make the record these guys were writing these things so you think about how they did get back and and those three four weeks in january of 1969 well these guys were doing this all the time full-time job and they toured i think they stopped touring in what 65-66 and they stopped touring because they couldn't hear themselves and they didn't really have proper pa systems then so it was kind of pointless to them to go out and tour because people screamed so loudly that they couldn't hear themselves play and they were using massively big amplifiers but they were playing shade stadium right these things couldn't uh they couldn't make it over the the their vocals couldn't make it over this with the small pas they had couldn't make it over the the the deafening sound of the crowd so they became a studio band but they worked like they did during get back definitely more functional than they were then and made those records right so let's let's let's go back and let's look at um let's look at rubber soul so on rubber soul it was their sixth studio record right so they um on rubber soul just to remind people what the songs were on it so we have um where's our track listing uh i should be able to to go right through these and name these but hold on uh let's see here track listing here we go drive my car norwegian wood you won't see me nowhere man think for yourself george harrison song the word michelle what goes on girl i'm looking through you love that song in my life man one of the best songs ever wait if i needed someone run for your life these are the songs that were on the british release of this but think about those songs right so those i'll go back to help so people remember this was a soundtrack of the movie help right um and came out august 6 1965 right so let's see track listing help the night before you've gotta hide your love away oh man amazing song i need you george harrison another girl you're gonna lose that girl one of my favorite beatles songs i haven't thought of in a long time uh ticket to ride act naturally was a cover it's only love uh you like me too much uh harrison tell me what you see i've just seen a face another one of my favorite beatles songs yesterday so that was on help so some of these things the yesterday and today record was was a combination of things right and then the dizzy miss lizzy cover that happened okay and then we go back to revolver which came out after rubber soul let's see what songs are on revolver so we're gonna do and this was released august 5th 1966 right so one year almost to the day after help uh and so we had um we had on this record tax man open the record george harrison's song eleanor rigby i'm only sleeping love to you george harrison here there and everywhere once again one of the finest beatles songs yellow submarine she said she said which is a john lennon song which is one of my absolute most favorite uh beatles songs incredible song good day sunshine one of paul mccartney's just fantastic songs and your bird can sing john lennon's song which is amazing if you don't know that you should check it out for no one paul mccartney dr robert that was a lenin song i want to tell you harrison got to get you into my life mccartney and then they round it out with tomorrow never knows come on my god they recorded and wrote all these songs within 365 days and this is a far more finished record than than the get back you know rooftop sessions and the let it be record which you know half the songs were recorded live with no vocal overdubs just them singing live it's astounding right think of this those guys when they broke up no one had turned 30 years old i mean it's really it it kind of bends my mind i'm a massive beatles fan okay you guys everybody knows that watches this channel knows that the fact that i can't play any beatles music on my channel because they block everything which i think once again is is ridiculous but whatever whatever i would have made it's probably good because people would be sick of my beatles videos that i made right um but just to just to think about this think in this movie when they were making that documentary george harrison was 25 in that 25 he hadn't turned 26 yet paul was 26. ringo and john were 28. i mean these guys had done so much by then and then the next later that year they recorded abby road right well what was on abbey road think about this i mean honestly the best songs on abbey road were george harrison's songs as far as i'm concerned and i love abby road but come on okay you can't really um track listing come together something one of the greatest songs ever written george harrison maxwell silverhammer oh darling you heard some of these songs in the movie they were working on them so these songs were recorded just months later uh octopus's garden ringo he's he uh is he working on that in the movie i think he is yeah with george at the piano uh i want you she's so heavy great song here comes the sun one of the the top songs ever written because john lennon oh my god the vocal harmonies in that i heard that he wrote that after listening to beethoven after you know that he was inspired and and wrote that those have some of the most sophisticated harmonies that were ever done you know uh you never give me your money oh man sun king me mr muster then you have the the whole the whole uh medley that goes down to the end including gold golden slumbers carry that way and then the end and then her majesty the little hidden trick but the end is one of my all-time favorite beatles songs i did what makes us sound great on that so how do you get great at writing songs by writing songs and by recording them this is how you get you get better and the beatles vocabulary increased they knew so many cover songs and it's just like this whole idea of learning music theory or learning how chord progressions go together this is why i developed my courses i'll give you my plug again i've got everything on sale here that i've ever created my ear training course my music theory book my beauto book my guitar quick lessons course that just is a non-linear conceptual video course with five hours of video content my uh and my 90 pdfs that are basically transcriptions of a lot of my youtube videos and my instagram videos some of my instagram videos uh so if you think about this why do you learn this stuff you know some people say you see the beatles knew they didn't know how to read or do anything like that and they wrote all these great songs it's like the beatles developed a vocabulary of sounds of chord voicings of chord progressions they knew a thousand cover songs something like that you saw they could they could play them without mistakes in the get back video they knew all the lyrics they knew the harmony parts if it was three-part harmonies they could sing them they were they they knew so much music theory whether they could name the things or not it doesn't matter music theory is just naming things i learned music theory when i was in college but i knew the stuff i knew the sounds of it then i was just learning the names but then with the ear training that's really the thing that that helps is being able to recognize these chord progressions and this is what the beatles were masters at those couple years in hamburg when they were learning uh cover songs to play their eight hour sets that's all ear training you know they didn't have youtube to go to they didn't have tab they listened to the records they learn the three-part harmonies they learn the chord progressions and now and the songs they were learning back then yes some of them were three and four chord songs but a lot of them were had augmented chords diminished chords and when you get to the later beatles this is what you're having you have all these line cliches you have very sophisticated chord progressions if you think of songs like strawberry fields or across the universe i mean not every you know uh here comes the sun these things are really sophisticated it takes a great year to come up with them it takes a great year to figure them out the beatles songs are some of the hardest songs to figure out by ear in my life man all these inverted chords and things like that if you don't have a good ear you can't figure out these songs you can figure out simple versions of them but you can't figure them out because some of the songs some of the chord voicings are like a major over g like a major thing with a g in the bass you you know you'll never figure out those inversions like that the the some of the stuff in ticket to ride uh uh harrison on i me mine uh with the line cliches things like that when i say line cliches i'm talking i won't play it i'll get my video demonetized like cliches like stairway to heaven you know but before stairway to heaven the beatles were doing these things all the time right so this is just mind-bending to me that they could come up with all this stuff like that but it was through experimentation constant experimentation right they didn't want to write the same thing so what did they do they had to learn new chord progressions they had to event invent new things you know paul mccartney when he did penny lane he said to george martin he had heard of bach the brandenburg concerto the second brandenburg concerto that has a bach trumpet really high trump apart and so he said could we put something like that in stormy fields and george martin's like yeah no problem so george wrote out this part which was a really high trumpet part that's played that's very challenging in that recording that um must have been one of the trumpet player from the london philharmonic or something or london symphony i'm sorry linda symphony that that must have played it but really sophisticated stuff like that they had they they were using these things i i think that uh um they talked about uh john cage i think they talked about john cage in the video they knew modern classical music they listened to everything those guys because they were constantly trying to get new ideas to i think uh one up each other every one of them it wasn't just lenin versus mccartney it was it was uh george and it was ringo and it by the end george was topping those guys he was besting them on those you know the the something and and here comes the sun those were the top songs on that record i think you know and if i look at spotify the most listened to songs i bet i bet those songs are um i'll i'll look at uh let me see the beatles here what are their top songs here comes the sun that's the most played song of the beatles on spotify right then let it be a second come together yesterday hey jude but honestly here comes the sun has about twice as many listens as any beatles song so in the end and in the end george harrison even though he quit during the making of let it be he uh he ended up writing after that after quitting the band and then coming back he ended up writing the two best songs in my opinion and that's saying a lot on abbey road so way to go george i mean that's amazing and george had so many songs saved up but you know these guys had unbelievably great ears they could figure out stuff they didn't make mistakes i mean yeah they would they would uh experiment a lot but when it came to the rooftop concert my god it was amazing the the no monitors no in-ears no nothing just singing with the microphones outdoors it was it was like 45 degrees out that day that's why they're wearing those heavy coats right you could see their breath that's how cold it was it was in the 40s it was january it's like the middle of january in london freezing no problem i i watched a um somebody sent me one of my friends sent me a some live performance from 1965 and it was the stones were on it was like a an award show or something the beatles played like five songs and and they came out and they played um i forget what the first song was maybe ticket to ride or maybe that was the last song but the first song george and paul's mic was not working and and they realized it and paul what just went over to john's mic and was singing the background vocals they just knew they could tell they could couldn't hear it out in the mains and he went there and they're singing on the same mic and just killing it so in tune these harmonies and the blend of the voices you know their voices i watched an interview with glenn johns who was in the movie and he made the best point about it he engineered the record the let it be record and he said that they had three completely distinct voices john lennon had a very nasally voice right paul mccartney had this high tenor voice open with they could all sing with great distortion and george harrison had a completely different very mid-range lower voice that blend was so unique this is what made the beatles sound so unique was the blend of the three and glen johns who worked with the eagles produced a couple of the eagles biggest records he mentioned this about the eagles that their those voice combinations are what really made those harmonies sound like they did there's just they you know nowadays you get the same person that the lead singer will sing the same harmony parts and that's why it sounds like a synthesizer especially when you auto-tune everything but having three different voices not auto-tuned that have completely different timbres singing together gives you a massive sound just like in queen same thing you know when i did the breakdown of bohemian rhapsody when you get those three vocals together the the three voices don't sound anything alike you know and they give this unique unique blend and this is something for people out there making their own songs get your friends to come in and sing harmonies if you can if you want your choruses to sound bigger this is a way to do it right get the blend of different timbres of voices if you're a guy get a female singer to come in if your female vocalist get one of your guy friends to come in to sing with you or get people they have different registered voices different sounding voices and learn how to blend together because uh that's that's a really great way to get your vocals to sound massively big different tonalities that's why you don't want to double the same guitar part with the same sound on both sides it's the same concept okay once again you want to improve yourself as a musician check out my my black friday beatoblackfriday.com go to there you can get all my stuff that i've ever put out and uh for less than what my ear training course would normally cost my ear training my viato book music theory book my quick lessons guitar course and my 90 pdfs that's it's more than 90 pages it's like i don't know 200 pages or something like that pdfs um but the sales going on through tomorrow night i extended it for people that asked me about things for christmas sales that got paid on friday uh so that's going on until tomorrow night at midnight eastern time and then i'm turning it off until next year uh once again thank you everybody for watching all the videos this uh you know all these interviews and things like that i got some great interviews planned coming up so you guys are the best we'll see you later

Channel: Rick Beato

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Keywords: everything music, Beato Ear Training, Beato Book, Quick Lessons Course, Music, Musicians, Music Theory, ear training, Rick Beato, music education, Music College, Guitar, piano, Future, THE Beatles, Get Back

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Length: 27min 50sec (1670 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 04 2021

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[u/TheShitDemiTook]

This dude has the mindset of a 17th century court jester

[u/Revulvalution]

I've watched and enjoyed a few of his videos but this is just cashing in. His first review of Get Back got 1.1 million views, so he is back to try to cash in again on them and sell some more or his merchandise.