The Beatles Secrets Revealed | How to Play Songs of the Beatles

hi everybody I'm Rick piano on today's everything music we're going to reveal some secrets of the Beatles and learns of Beatles tunes so people ask me Rick how much do you love the Beatles well I told him I loved the Beatles so much that I named one of my kids after them my middle daughter Lennon is named after John Lennon so let's get right into it okay the first thing we're going to learn is Norwegian Wood which is off over Seoul you need to have a capo and the capo goes with the second fret so the tune goes like this [Music] and decorous D minor gee [Music] - Teddy Mayer seven back to the death you [Music] No [Music] okay so that's the whole form of the song let's talk about the riff okay so you start on a D and you have to do a hammer-on on the g string that's probably the trickiest part in there some hammer to the fourth fret of the g-string right then the open g string and then you're playing a D chord here see these two fingers don't move at all then you go to here this is kind of tricky too [Music] then you play second fret D string fourth fret D string [Music] and that's over third fret of the a-string - they're open G to the second fret of the a string and the a is last eight open a string - less now it's actually they'll be because of the cable but [Music] you can actually simplify you can get away if it's hard to play keyboard here you can just you can actually leave that string open [Music] so for those of you that that's kind of tricky for to hold down both those notes just you can little you can cheat it alone like that you'll find it a little bit a little bit easier to play the chorus is very simple [Music] per second I will honor pilot they minor a minor seven to a 7 and that's the whole tune okay the next thing we're going to learn is here comes the Sun now this is capo at the eighth fret and there's a little technique some people call flat picking I just call it kind of strumming away and picking out the melody just like you did in Norwegian Wood starts with a D shape here and it goes like this [Applause] I'm kind of I'm kind of doing this rocking back forth so you're doing on the a7 air so you basically just pick out the melody notes so that second time it goes leisa f-sharp there that second fret there lick it like a G major 7 chord thousand seven then the verse starts and it goes same chords [Applause] design similar chords except it adds an e7 so it goes like this there they're down it's alright then there comes into lick like this so that lick is hammer-on on the second fret to the fourth fret on the third string of the g string and it does a fourth fret third fret open like a D so stir then open the second finger staying on the third fret of the B string [Music] and it has a bowl ah there you go you want to bake it like that [Music] and it goes back to the second verse same thing again the second chorus into the bridge just something a little bit different so second chorus is like this seven that pause was on an a7 that that doesn't open a string 4th fret 2nd fret so you're playing with your pinkie then you go right into an F major shape c / e right into a c-shape ng / v shape every time so it does that about 16 times and then there's a build on the a so goes the last time it goes [Music] that's simply you're going to a seven mm not for me and then the pinkie pops over the high e string and place that chord it goes back into the verse [Applause] and the fourth Oh and the Rebbe okay so after the bridge it goes verse then chorus and then there's a little tag so it does the riff two times separated by this [Music] into the app shape and ends on a D chord okay the first seeker we're going to reveal is the Strawberry Fields edit now it was done in two different takes first part of Strawberry Fields up to one minute is a take it was take seven actually and the back half of the song is take 26 well take 26 was done in the key of C with a full full orchestral arrangement and take seven was in the key to John Lennon liked the sound but he wanted to merge the two tracks and George Martin said well it couldn't be done and John said you'll figure it out so what they did is they slowed down the back half of the song sped up the front of the sign and there's a blonde theorem sound effect that happens that joins the two and it's together and it's seamless unless you really know where it is if you listen to John's original demo he starts it on C [Music] [Applause] [Music] which is really different than where it ends up in the key of kind of B flat or a but it goes like [Music] [Music] let me take you down cuz I'm going nothing okay robbery that's that's essentially the chord progression there I some of the course moves kind of fast as it walked up [Music] some of the cooler parts about it when he goes I can't think of any other song to actually use as a liner liner than G letters you get C minor G minor G minor all in a row that is really really cool now when we get to actual recording it's at a completely different key so it's going to take a completely different set of chords it's actually very different so it starts out with the flute part at the beginning and you can actually play it like this um the chords are essentially a major G major D seven then it goes down here f-sharp minor a major hey-hey but you can go then move back out step then and the answer a coin right let me take you down cuz I'm going to my rubber heels at like a minor 7 and I'm sure major and after [Applause] then it goes back to this party to go to a major major 7/7 that it goes F sharp minor but you play here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so it doesn't walk down but you don't have to do it I'm actually doing it like this what you can actually go [Music] so there's two choices really so verse again [Music] I'll do the walk down [Music] let me take you down cuz I'm going this is the only time that that chorus part changes so the second chorus starts and hang goes let me take you down cuz I'm going to the iron very misty understand is changed to instruct diminished empathy is for you [Music] that's a whole tune one of the clues for how the song is played comes from the ending where George Harrison is playing his 12-string electric and playing this pattern [Music] [Applause] now that part there tells me that it's definitely not pleaded with a capo okay cord number one [Music] the guitar left as a g 7sus4 but they're not playing a low G you're hearing the D from the bass and you're just hearing the top notes of the guitar part strums like that okay to do a proper analysis of the chord what I had to do is take the Beatles version put it into Pro Tools isolate each channel the left and the right a listen to the right channel first I got the guitar chord from there then I went to the left channel I got the guitar chord from there along with the bass note which is a D and there's a kick drum hit that actually hits in there it because to get the chord to sound like it you actually have to have that kick drum in there there's a there's a little there's a punch to it that you'll hear okay so here's what they sound like back-to-back this is the Beatles this is ours [Music] once again Beatles and my version pretty close that's all for now please subscribe here to my everything music YouTube channel and if you're interested in the Beato book you can go to rick Beato calm and get it there thanks for watching

Channel: Rick Beato

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Keywords: Norwegian Wood, Here comes the sun, Strawberry Fields, A hard days night, the beatles, how to, play, beatles, songs, guitar, learn, tutorial, chords, voicings, secrets, revealed, melody, songwriting, clinic, rick beato, everything music, ringo star, john lennon, paul mccartney, george harrison, production, george martin, ringo starr

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Length: 15min 16sec (916 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 26 2017