Today is World Day The Beatles

Sailor Steve · 01-16-16, 10:29 PM

I was thirteen when the Beatles released their first album, fourteen when they came to America, and fifteen when their second movie, Help!, was released. The first song I ever figured out for myself on guitar was Lennon's 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away'. Of course I figured it out wrong and someone had to show me the right way.

My favorite McCartney song will always be

Harrison? 'If I Needed Someone'.

They all wrote better songs, but these are personal favorites.

vienna · 01-17-16, 06:52 PM

"If I Needed Someone" was. essentially a tribute to The Byrds by George Harrison who was deeply impressed by their songs; conversely, The Byrds had been very influenced by The Beatles, leading Roger McGuinn to take up the 12-string Rickenbacker as his main instrument in emulation of George. Harrison sent a tape copy of the song to The Byrds before it was ever released by The Beatles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Needed_Someone

The academic analysis of the song in the Wikipedia entry reminds me of a book published at the height of the Beatles career titled "Twilight of The Gods: The Music of The Beatles". It was a very dry, very academic, very ponderous analysis of the Beatles' songs and their structure; it was somewhat odd since none of the Beatles could neither read nor write musical notation and. to this day, can't...

I'm basically right behind you on the timeline, given I'm just a few months younger than you. I also got a guitar after watching the Beatles; I mean, think about it: a young guy watching TV, seeing a bunch of rather ordinary looking guys having fun and with swarms of teenage girls falling all over them. Sure got my attention. When I got my first guitar, I couldn't also afford lessons or the tutorial books available at the time (although, given they were written to mainly teach classical or jazz style, it was no great loss). I tried to tune it the way I thought it might be tuned; my musical education was vocal music in Catholic school and I was more familiar with hymns and Gregorian chants. Therefore, my first attempt at tuning resulted in an open chord, minor key tuning not very well suited to rock and roll. Eventually, I got my hands on one of those guitar pitch pipe tuners and got it all sorted out. Lately, though, I've been dabbling more in open tunings...

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ivanov.ruslan · 01-18-16, 02:53 AM

Although the topic is serious, i will afford little lyrical digression

It is known that the first meeting up with their producer, takes place in The cavern club,Liverpool

Although Ringo Starr turns a little later in the group might have some connection with the name of the club and the film, which starred

And another song

01-16-16, 10:29 PM	#1
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I was thirteen when the Beatles released their first album, fourteen when they came to America, and fifteen when their second movie, Help!, was released. The first song I ever figured out for myself on guitar was Lennon's 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away'. Of course I figured it out wrong and someone had to show me the right way. My favorite McCartney song will always be Harrison? 'If I Needed Someone'. They all wrote better songs, but these are personal favorites. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-17-16, 06:52 PM	#2
vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,718 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	"If I Needed Someone" was. essentially a tribute to The Byrds by George Harrison who was deeply impressed by their songs; conversely, The Byrds had been very influenced by The Beatles, leading Roger McGuinn to take up the 12-string Rickenbacker as his main instrument in emulation of George. Harrison sent a tape copy of the song to The Byrds before it was ever released by The Beatles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Needed_Someone The academic analysis of the song in the Wikipedia entry reminds me of a book published at the height of the Beatles career titled "Twilight of The Gods: The Music of The Beatles". It was a very dry, very academic, very ponderous analysis of the Beatles' songs and their structure; it was somewhat odd since none of the Beatles could neither read nor write musical notation and. to this day, can't... I'm basically right behind you on the timeline, given I'm just a few months younger than you. I also got a guitar after watching the Beatles; I mean, think about it: a young guy watching TV, seeing a bunch of rather ordinary looking guys having fun and with swarms of teenage girls falling all over them. Sure got my attention. When I got my first guitar, I couldn't also afford lessons or the tutorial books available at the time (although, given they were written to mainly teach classical or jazz style, it was no great loss). I tried to tune it the way I thought it might be tuned; my musical education was vocal music in Catholic school and I was more familiar with hymns and Gregorian chants. Therefore, my first attempt at tuning resulted in an open chord, minor key tuning not very well suited to rock and roll. Eventually, I got my hands on one of those guitar pitch pipe tuners and got it all sorted out. Lately, though, I've been dabbling more in open tunings... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __

01-18-16, 02:53 AM	#3
ivanov.ruslan The Old Man Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Pleven,BG Posts: 1,577 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 0	Although the topic is serious, i will afford little lyrical digression It is known that the first meeting up with their producer, takes place in The cavern club,Liverpool Although Ringo Starr turns a little later in the group might have some connection with the name of the club and the film, which starred And another song Last edited by ivanov.ruslan; 01-18-16 at 11:38 AM.