Beatles - Hold Me Tight Guitar Secrets -- No Backing Tracks
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2015
- Beatles guitar lesson ****ALTERNATE VERSION**** I've republished WITHOUT BACKING TRACKS due to USA blocking.
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I eliminated a the 2nd verse, the firsts bridge and the 3rd verse. This is a 1966 Gretsch Country Gentleman played through a Vox AD15VT set to AC30TB w/ no effects. Min Bass, Min Mid, Max Treble. .010 -.046 nickel plated wire wound strings. The main lead riffs are not single notes, rather they are played on top of chord figures, so that the picking style, which favors the lower strings, is what gives the sense of a melody. Lennon’s part is the top guitar which he played on his Ric 325. His strumming is similar to ‘I Saw Her Standing There’. The bottom guitar is Harrison’s part which he played on his Country Gentleman. The lead is very tiring despite being quite simple. Despite lots of info to the contrary, I am convinced that the song was recorded in the key of F. Listening to studio takes 22, 23 and 24 shows that they sang and played at the same time and recorded in the key of F. No tabs. • Video
The electric guitars are played through a Vox AD15VT set to AC30TB with min bass, min mid and max treble and the amp is close mic recorded with a Tascam DR01 hand-held digital recorder. Acoustic guitars are recorded with the Tascam DR01 hand-held digital recorder about 12 inches away from the neck and midway between the 12th fret and the sound hole. Effect effects are added during mixing. My performance, with compression, is mixed with the backing tracks and the whole mix is limited. This is the way the Beatles recorded these early tunes. It is difficult to duplicate the sound with just the guitar and amp.
My videos are really intended for accomplished guitarists who want to polish up their Beatles repertoire and can benefit from "seeing" how a song is played - I am not a guitar teacher and do not provide tabs. I welcome specific questions. If the various chords that I am playing are not familiar to you then I would suggest that you visit some of the many free guitar chord sites. I had to learn these songs by listening to vinyl records and watching live performances on tv.
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Thanx for viewing. PLEASE review the video description b4 posting new comments/questions. There's lots of info regarding guitars, strings, recording, etc.
Paul Mccartney has always regarded this song of his as something he's not too proud of. Interesting sentiment as most Beatles fans like myself put this as one of their best riffs.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! ive been trying to figure this out FOREVER!
Another great lesson! Thank you for making my Beatles repertoire far more accurate!
Once again, thank you for sharing your knowledge. Great instructional cover for honing skills!!!
I Need You had no backing tracks, but this one does (not the USA-block original backing track of course) - I was kind of excited about having all of them be just soloed guitars (hearing the drums doesn't help as much as hearing the subtle nuances of the guitar playing), but regardless, these are extremely valuable so thanks again for all your work.
I pray I practice this on my acoustic guitar so the muscles in my hand get the so strong on that when I go to the electric it's a lot easier
Beatles the chord masters
Nice job. Sounds great and looks very challenging to play.
Thanks a lot!
Guitars great on a great song
Great song and great guitar work
Thanks very much for commenting. Please check out the description for setup and recording info. Please like, subscribe and check out all of my Beatles videos at ruclips.net/channel/UCe8V_SYjLoXs33AybZypQfA
beautifull great exercise for my 64 year old pinky
So flippin cool.
Great video . No talking right to the playing and accurate also . Well done
Bravo!
Exactly !
Good work! This and vids! (Nice Gent, too!) And yes, exhaustive to play this in F!! The fact is (and it is), The Beatles recorded many, many songs & then sped up or slowed down the tape later when they mixed. (It's a tape trick rather than digital... there's a big difference, as tape speed affects both speed & timbre, which digital doesn't, not the same ways.) I've done it a million times myself, to speed up a 1/4- or 1/2-step, we'd call it adding "Sparkle Factor." It really DOES. Anyway, I DO believe The Beatles recorded this in E, & sped it up a bit. Same with "She Said She Said," which plays somewhere between A & Bb, but WAS recorded in A, according to their own session logs. (If you haven't yet, you'd enjoy reading Geoff Emerick's fabulous book "Here, There & Everywhere," & more... "Recording the Beatles," & other things have some amazing stories and serious tech info! If you haven't yet, read how Emerick & George Martin edited "I Am The Walrus" - a true miracle of editing, tape speeds & sheer LUCK!) An' if you wanna keep playing this in F, fabulous! Just remind me never to thumb-wrestle you! (-: Keep up the great work, and rock on! Cheers! Berington Van Campen - The Beatunes, L.A.
Thanx for your comment. I certainly understand what you're saying and even read articles claiming the same thing. However, there are RUclips videos of the early studio takes (audio only) and they're also in F -- their voices are clearly at normal pitch and speed. That tells me it was played in F.
I've changed my position on this one. After additional research, it appears that they did in fact record the backing in the key of E. Then they played it back at a slightly higher speed to obtain the key of F and recorded the vocals along with the backing. That's why the voices, both speaking and singing, sound like normal pitch. Needless to say, I'm not going to do the video over. I will add a note to the video description.
Hey BGS!
Very thoughtful of you to dig a little deeper into it and report your findings. That's the "sparkle factor" demo'd for us. (Conversely, if you were to ignore the vocals & slow the track down to E, the original key, you'd dramatically hear how much "darker" it sounds, which is why the decision was made to bring it up a notch. As I said, not uncommon at all, & not just by The Beatles.) Can't blame you for not re-doing the video. It IS terrific, and demonstrates very well how to play this song!
Cheers!
I've again changed my position. I listened to takes 22, 23 and 24 and they are playing and singing not singing to a playback of backing tracks. The performance is in F.
@@BeatlesGuitarSecrets This is correct. The Beatles had no means for such pitch control until 1966. From that point on, they used all kinds of pitch-shifting up and down of the instruments and vocals. But before that the only speed manipulation they had access to was octave up or down, most famously used for In My Life piano solo, although that trick was used as early as 1963 for Misery, and another example would be solo in A Hard Day's Night (not sure about guitar, but at least the piano in it definitely).
You're a human dynamo!
Harrison ...lead guitar..