The Beatles Uncommon Chords WITH THE BEATLES album by Mike Pachelli

mike picella here coming to you for the very first time from my brand new studio in the south of france uh greetings and welcome in those of you that have been following my hijinx know that i moved to the south of france um almost a year ago and it took just about that long to make my new studio because i did it uh 90 on my own uh i had some builders put up the uh the drywall and the frames for the rooms so well in case you're interested um i've got five new rooms we've got master control which is you can see behind me and behind the camera there is like a lounge area then there's of course a drum booth so i could you know record live drums a vocal booth and then the main tracking room side a and side b and then i've got plenty of storage room in a storage in a storage room when you first enter the studio premise so i'm really happy to be here you know i'm i'm living uh uh two minutes literally from the mediterranean sea and it's it's it's really great so uh for this lesson uh i'm just you know kind of getting the bugs out of the new studio i thought i'd do something uh start a new series and i'm going to call it um uncommon chords of the beatles because uh you know for young cats in the 20 in their 20s back in the early 60s some of their songs had some some chords that were just like you know unheard of in in rock slash pop music so i'll start with um uh their second studio album with the beatles and there's like five songs on there that have some really unusual chords that i thought i'd talk about today the first song that you hear on the record is it won't be long it was recorded on july 30th 1963 and the first song on with the beatles that was released november 22 1963 which also was the uh the day president kennedy got assassinated so um that's when the beatles recorded it won't be long oh for this lesson i'm using a my grech country classic and it's plugged straight into a 1963 vox ac30 slash six and uh there's a photo of that so you get to see what uh how i'm getting the tone pretty much straight in with the middle middle position uh so you know the song starts off it won't be just c minor [Music] um to an e [Music] it won't be right so they play an a chord and then they put a uh flat nine in it [Music] right check out that chord [Music] you might want to play it if you play a regular a like this you can also play this uh add a flatline by going [Music] so again either borrow it like that [Music] see that now i'm not going to go through all the chords because i just want to point out the uncommon chords and the first one i guess is you know a uh what would you say add flat 9 which is the you know an a sharp or a b flat depending on what you want to call it so that's pretty amazing for again 1963 you know oregon [Music] the next bit of brilliance in this song is you know bob dylan said that the beatles had outrageous chords on this record and he was so correct uh the next bit is just just pure john lennon genius because you know he was known to write melodies first and find chords later and uh you know i've talked about in many of my other lessons um how he played banjo chords like you know when he played his e like this maybe put the pinky down but it's all speculation what i'm about to say but here's my uneducated guess that he um he just wrote an e to an e flat to a d to a d flat and he sings you know since you since you yeah since you left me right that's probably what lennon wrote and maybe just played you know root in third since you left me but george being a little more uh you know jazz curious uh turned it into some some even fuller chords so the first chord would be like a a regular beatles e you know and then the second chord is like uh e flat augmented all right you can hear george doing that since you left me next chord would be a d sixth and then to a on the record you just really hear the root and the third of d flat but it could very easily be a uh a uh d flat seven and and just they underplayed the seventh but if you think about the melody you know that's the e uh e flat augmented d6 [Music] right that would be the d flat seven since you left me [Music] i mean 1963 kids in their 20s coming up with a part like that you know he does a similar thing on if i fell where he does a uh he does a you know chromatic thing but i mean that's just your sure brilliance for it for a young cat in his 20s um and the only other thing that i find interesting is at the very end uh they do like a kind of a you know blues ending to you and it's just g g flat f and e major seventh but they but wisely they play up to the b then you hear the c of the f and then you hear the e major seventh and if you look if you listen really closely to the record you hear george pick up his finger and hear the b ring out it goes like and then the the b note rings out i don't know if i can do that good here [Music] i belong to you [Music] that's just great there you have that one the second song on with the beatles is all i've got to do recorded on september 11th 1963 and it's you know almost the same kind of chord structure to some degree as the first tune you know uh with the c sharp minor to e but that first iconic chord has uh you know just perhaps confused a lot of us for many years and it sounds like this isn't that beautiful um if you're going to name it you can call it an e-augmented add 9 ad 11. now my guess is you know john knew a uh uh uh uh augmented chord because so many of the old you know doo-wop songs and everything used that chord in a turnaround like if something was in a you know a song would go right you've all heard that that chord and john knew it and and i think he was looking for a you know a cool first chord for this song and he probably put his hands down oh that sounds nice what can i do let me drop me pinky and he dropped his pinky right there on the seventh fret of the b string [Music] oh that's it then huh whenever [Music] it's just a fun chord to play right so again just play your uh normal e augmented [Music] and then put your pinky down on the seventh fret of the b string and your fingers already laying there across the fifth fret and get that a on the top so you got augmented you're adding a nine and you're adding an 11. you play the seventh fret of the fifth string first [Music] and you're on your way [Music] i just want to do it more don't you [Music] the only other place i'd say is kind of you know uncommon would be the rhythm is just playing a regular e and you hear george making a six chord so it's hard to know i think it's george doing it actually because because john adapted that making e chord and a chord sixth all the time but you take a regular e chord like this and then put your pinky down on the second uh fret of the b string so one one of the beatles is going regular e and the other plays a six chord playfully you know [Applause] [Music] and those are the two i'd say uncommon chords of that tune the third song on with the beatles that has a couple of uncommon chords is all my loving now uh i've done a complete analysis of john lennon's amazing triplet part you know on my lesson called the genius of john lennon if you want to check it out where he does you know [Music] that thing but the uncommon chord those are pretty you know basic chords um the uncommon chord is the uh uh c sharp minor major that goes in when he goes oh my loving this chord i will send right see it there so from uh fifth string it's uh uh yeah fifth string four six five five four [Music] can't resist [Music] i couldn't resist playing uh george's nashville style solo if you'd like to see a breakdown of that i did a lesson called the genius of george harrison and and i go through that that soul um but that d flat minor major again you know it's it's a common move in jazz you know right something like that actually you know it would be the stairway to heaven move too if you take it a minor i'd say that could be a a a minor major at nine but again in all my loving i will send to you fun facts to know and tell this is the first song that paul wrote the words first and then the music later um there's also something notable that george does in songs like this where he instead of like a minor instead of the f sharp minor uh on the record he plays a straight you know kind of just regular chord [Music] like that but on live when you see him like see remember always instead of george playing going down to there remember he plays a uh a version of f sharp minor like uh remember all always so that's just an f sharp minor but interesting to note that george does that a lot on on minor chords where john goes [Music] and george is going [Music] so see that one f sharp minor so two uncommon chords in that one and for 1963 that's the bomb the next song that's noteworthy with some unusual courting i think is uh george harrison's first song that he got on a record don't bother me that was recorded on september 12th 1963 and there's a couple really uh unusual techniques that end up being kind of part of the beatles vocabulary later on as long as like um like norwegian would but on the d chord plays a straight d chord but he moves down the melody goes to e minor anyway george does is very cool you all know d [Music] same kind of idea but george is doing it back in the you know september 12th and again just just take your take a take a d chord put your pinky on the fourth fret of the uh fourth string first finger pick it up and put it on the second fret of the fourth string and then lift it up so [Music] just fun to do and you know mess around with it maybe write your own song the other noteworthy kind of cool chordal thing that he did first time they did something like this on a record was you know the chords are basically uh b minor g i'm sorry a g but he he he's thinking about the sixth fifth and fourth string and then he's moving around with his pinky like i was getting these notes like and he does a little different every time but he's playing full chords and making that that that motion happen like [Music] but playing the full chords like [Music] i've got no and very cool to do so there's so many variations that you could use on your own music when you're when you're thinking about something like that because you know back before that and uh maybe george came up with it because it seemed like every song if you were like playing a b kind of you know thick uh fifths everybody was going right so you know making a seventh chord really very beetle sounding right you know so many songs end up being like that but and another fun fact to know and tell after that recording session well a few days after september 12th uh george was the first beatle to go to america he went to benton illinois to visit his uh his sister louise sat in with a band when he was there and uh again first beetle to come to america a couple days after the don't bother me session so there you have it the last song to uh have some uncommon chords on with the beatles i'd say is till there was you which is not an original composition but but the lads did a great interpretation of it um the chords are f to f sharp diminish uh g minor to c c nine at the beginning and but the way they're voicing the uh f sharp diminishes like you know like this like a three note chord all right beautiful to the g minor to the c9 and maybe the c9 was a little uncommon too back there [Music] but i think the f sharp diminishes the chord that sticks out to be uncommon for you know 1963 because if you knew a diminished chord back then you played like this all right that form that moves up in minor thirds [Music] all right uh from four to one would be first fret second fret first fret second fret but they're the beatles are planet you [Music] know so it's a great way to play diminished chord you can still move it up in minor thirds you know simpler simpler simpler version of it um then they have the in suite you know once again the g minor major g minor major c and then they go to a g7 [Music] because that that that move really sounds like it should go to g minor [Music] and you hear george again plays it like a three note chord from uh four to two third fret fourth fret sixth fret [Music] c nine and then there's a g sharp augmented right hear that all right is the uh g sharp augmented uh from four to one uh fret six five five four that's a chord you can move in in uh five frets let me get the same notes all right and then uh in the solo i mean the solo is so beautiful if you'd like a complete uh breakdown of the solo i do it in the uh my lesson the genius of george harrison the solo has some great chords and solo goes on let's see um [Music] so the cool things in there is on the g minor he bars the third fret and then he hammers on the fifth fret of the third and the first string slides up to that b flat minor plays in f6 and then those inversions those minor versions i was telling you about like an a minor to a flat minor to g minor all right and then such a luscious chord an f sharp seventh raised nine [Music] right before the f so that's courses from um six to one would be fret two four i'm muting that note uh three on the third string five five i guess you can get that number if you want it it's a little heavy with two sevenths so i like to mute that chord to the f so beautiful so beautiful and the only other uh interesting and uncommon things are at the very end well first of all the way they do till they go they go c to e c e c very uncommon that was you and then he's playing an f like this um i forget the exact rhythm but it's like to a d flat at nine so that's just basically an f chord there from four to one ten ten ten pick up the pinky then play like a d flat uh you know normal d flat bar chord on four strings and add your pinky [Music] [Applause] [Music] so nice i should have played this on the nylon string but i'm just comfy here in the studio talking to you oh that last uh f major seventh you can also play it like this you know i like this version of it this voicing of it don't get the open e but it's still nice all right so from uh fifth to fourth string you got fret eight eight seven nine nice version of that nice voicing kind of different so there you go i hope you enjoyed this lesson i'm going to be doing probably six or seven complete beetle tunes i think i got she loves you and you can't do that before i moved to france uh i had uh richie russo my my favorite drummer one of my favorite drummers to do some beetle tracks so i already got the drum tracks done and i'll be working on getting those complete songs so stay tuned um i appreciate you hanging out with me if you'd like to drop me a note do so at mikepacelli.com always cool to hear from you and i answer every email so until next time i'm mike picelli and thanks for hanging out with me you

Channel: Mike Pachelli

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Keywords: The Beatles, Mike Pachelli, guitar, It Won't Be Long, All I've Got To Do, All My Loving, Don't Bother Me, Till There Was You, John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, guitar lessons, jazz, jazz guitar chords

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Length: 24min 55sec (1495 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 16 2020

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[u/rhoydotp]

Have always love watching this guy and his enthusiasm for anything Beatles. He is a very accomplished guitarist, too!