Did anyone even notice that this guy is musically ambidextrous? On another Lennon guitar lesson, he played it right handed, like John. On the bass, he is teaching Paul's part left handed, like Paul! Nice!!!!
i noticed that, too. if fact, i thought maybe he had just flipped this video horizontally to make it look left handed for effect. the i saw the rick logo on the headstock. i,d be curious to know if he can play guitar left handed as well. playing individual notes is one thing, chords are a whole different ball game:)
Your ear for unpicking music is incredible. I've certainly heard this played by others online and it's incorrect. This is the actual way it's played on the album.
I love how this many years later you're still at it, and still providing quality music lessons on a variety of instruments (and voice). Please don't ever stop.
Your attention to detail really illustrates how Paul had a seemingly innate sense of how to make it feel right. He probably didn't sweat all of these fine points, but we must to preserve his intentions. Great work!
What I appreciate is that you listen so carefully to these songs and explain the importance of very subtle aspects of the songs. It explains why my playing sounds so flat when I try to copy songs.
II've been watching your videos for about ten years now, since I started singing and playing music. I've learned how to sing harmonies without losing the key of the line I'm singing thanks to your work. And of course, I love The Beatles even more every time you show us these kind of hidden gems. I'm currently studying Musical Arts, and you are one of the people who has made me love music even more. Grazie, maestro!
All the time I've been playing this on bass I've thought to myself that I was close but not very exact to the original, but I couldn't really figure out the differences. This totally shows me the differences. Thanks!
Great observations on The Beatles music. Since it first came out, I must have listened to it hundreds of times. Without thinking about it, or analysing, mistakes stand out like a ‘sore thumb.’ It’s lovely to hear you dissect the playing, and show us what they did. Like many other fans, I find it incredible that The Beatles had amassed a respectable body of work, all before they were thirty. Wow ! The talent in that band was unbelievable. As we all hung on every new offering, we knew they were ‘geniuses.’ The passage of time just showed me the measure of their genius. I recall my father and uncles tearing it down, telling me to ‘get some proper music on.’ Further questioning revealed that ‘proper music,’ was something like Bing Crosby or Vera Lynne. Yuk! Young people today can’t imagine the magnitude of the rift between us back then. Although the ‘generation gap’ may eventually eclipsed by all this with their ‘woke, preferred pronouns and thirty or so different genders that are now available to us.’ I know we shocked our parents with the ‘sixties,’ but was it really as bad as all this new stuff? Perhaps the very question labels me as old, uncool or whatever! At least I don’t name call them, or racially slur them. In fact, I think I’m quite tolerant and open minded. And I’ve never uttered the words, ‘nothing a stint in The Army wouldn’t cure, or get a proper hair cut.’ Nor do I criticise their clothes. We were all young rebels once!
It's so nice to see the evolution of your channel. The quality of the audio videos is getting better and you are always very friendly, in addition to having a wonderful teaching method! Congratulations on the job! Hugs from Brazil. ❤🇧🇷
You either have the most incredible ear I have ever seen or you listen to this music at very slow motion I think it's just genius musical ability even your harmonies that you do by yourself apart I can't tell but put together it's pure perfection my late brother was a musician for 60 years he read music could tell notes by ear and play guitare so well that he was tired of it and he taught himself to play drums he picked that up fairly quick but as he grew older he switched to jazz he took lessons from one of the best jazz drummers in Boston a Berkeley professor he told him just practice your timing and send me video's I'll tell you what to work on and he was quite impressed so where the members of his band they all thought he went to berkly music school to like then even though they never made a living at music he actually was and air conditioning refrigeration tec.who was tired of being dirty so he went back to school nights and weekends and got his bachelor's then his masters his company offered him the managers position the regular guy wanted to go back to repairs and didn't want to learn computers so he got a good raise company car and he new enough about the trade he new witch guy to send where he retired three years ago but his band was making decent money he had back up guitarists bass players keyboard players but he stuck with the best he learned to sail from a book and will he was as close to a genius I ever met then two weeks ago he passed he was in good shape no smoking no drinking or drugs his second marriage was comming up on 23 years a great man and I have been trying to learn bass for 40 years and just don't have that talent keep making these there incredible and live every day like it could be your last hope I didn't depress you that was not my intent thanks I love the beatles
Fantastic work, Galeazzo! ... and even though I guess McCartney never spent a jiff worrying about these details (his ears probably just told him his sound was good), they nonetheless make a huge difference, especially in pop music, whose greatest wealth (on my humble opinion) is the incredible variety of timbres and sounds it can offer to its fans. A much richer palette compared to those of Classical Music or Jazz (Orchestras, alas, sound very much the same...). My music is Jazz but I happily subscribed to your channel, because it seems to me (by far) the finest Musical channel from our Country. ... and because I like the Beatles, of course 😊. A great week to you and to everybody 😊.
@@richsackett3423 I don’t know where you get this from, Rich… I work a lot on my playing (I play the Piano): sometimes even days on a same few bars, trying to make my part sound as if I were the pianist I’d like it to be. And then I watch ‘Get Back’ and I see it takes two days - two and a half top - to this guy to write a song: an epic song like ‘Let it Be’ or ‘Get Back’: with melody, chords, lyrics, arrangement… everything. And then he gets back to smoking, joking and chilling with his pals. Or I remember in Scorsese’s movie when Eric Clapton says that they recorded ‘While my Guitar gently Weeps’ in an afternoon and that he was amazed by McCartney 'playing the Piano, singing harmonies', etc… so I’m sure that he had many possible solutions in his mind but at the same time he gave me the impression to be pretty confident about the way he sounded… a nice day to you and to everybody, Enrico 😊.
Some really great insights, along with the audio proof to back up what you're saying. I can't wait to tackle this bass line anew, but it's going to take some effort to unlearn the way I've been playing it forever.
I play an old maple neck Fender P bass. I change strings about once every four years, just standard flat wounds that sound as dead as a door nail. Forgot to mention. I had all the frets removed forty years ago. Long story . I never even thought of electric bass strings for a fretless . I’ll have to look into it. G.F. is getting the closest sound to Paul’s Rick 4001 I’ve ever heard.
Thanks !! Entiendo más el Inglés Británico que el Americano 😂.. I am a fan of the Beatles, since I was a child, and you have a very good way of explaining, I will always follow your videos. Greetings from Culiacán Mexico
I'd like to see you cover the outro of the song. I'm talking about the part where it stays on the D chord and John sings "Come Together" over and over. I've heard the isolated bass, and even though it's all just one note, Paul is doing some really interesting quick slides. Or maybe they're bends or hammer ons. It sounds like he's playing a super quick C# over and over right before the D. Except it sounds sharper than a C#, just flat of a D. I can't exactly tell how he makes the sound, so I'd love to hear your interpretation of it.
Yeah the hammer on on the G fixed it for me thanks. There was just something missing on the slide on the back end, just sounded weak and tinny for me but that hammer on then slide gets the feel of that riff for me. I do wonder if that "caress" you picked up on is just bad string muting and it ended up sounding good because I have done that a few times in other songs where I kind of fail upwards in muting and it gives a bit more of a dynamic feel for it when its repeatable.
Superb piece, this! I have tried countless different ways to play this line, my all time favorite bass performance, but never managed to fully capture the nuances in the up- and downslides. Thank you soo much for setting this straight!
Hah, so much easier to learn these things than when I started over 30 years ago. But from listening to the isolated bass track, I really thought Paul hits the high F with his pinkie on the 15th fret (D string) when he's playing the main Dm riff. I get a fatter tone with that note than on the G string. BTW, the way my hands move there is similar to how I play his fast part in Taxman. There's a lot of interesting stuff for you to cover in Taxman, starting with the fact that Paul plays two quick 16th notes on the D octave. A lot of players miss that!
Hello I think your videos are always spot on. My question is , Could you use flat wound strings to get close to the original recorded sound? Thank you if u answer my question.
For this specific bass part you need Rotosound RS88LD but otherwise than this video I always use Pyramid strings flat wound for both the Rick and the Hofner
Well if it’s a shorter scale, and he’s using Pyramid short scale (not here of course) than I’d assume it’s that weird scale in between medium and short, like the Hofner. Just a guess. I’d like him to answer your question as well, just out of curiosity.
Thank you soo much for doing this video....now i understand clearly how to play it. We play that song live and could never achieve the same sound Paul does before. Loove your videos, the Beatles áre My favourite band of all times, and Paul is My favourite Beatle,bass player,singer,composer of all time!!
And the famous riff on the song's time stamp 2mins 26 sec... I play it how it sounds on the record but when I isolated the track I was stunned it was a simple pull off. Funny though, I still play it my way as it sounds more like the record than when I play it like the record!
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Did anyone even notice that this guy is musically ambidextrous? On another Lennon guitar lesson, he played it right handed, like John. On the bass, he is teaching Paul's part left handed, like Paul! Nice!!!!
i noticed that, too. if fact, i thought maybe he had just flipped this video horizontally to make it look left handed for effect. the i saw the rick logo on the headstock. i,d be curious to know if he can play guitar left handed as well. playing individual notes is one thing, chords are a whole different ball game:)
I noticed that too. Impressive.
What guitar is that
Your ear for unpicking music is incredible. I've certainly heard this played by others online and it's incorrect. This is the actual way it's played on the album.
I love how this many years later you're still at it, and still providing quality music lessons on a variety of instruments (and voice).
Please don't ever stop.
Your attention to detail really illustrates how Paul had a seemingly innate sense of how to make it feel right. He probably didn't sweat all of these fine points, but we must to preserve his intentions. Great work!
Brilliant study on this perfect song
Amazing as usual! You’re of the few RUclipsrs that I click like before watching the video lol
friend, which is the bass?
Finally someone has the bass like Paul played it.. This song leave bands little to be desired.
What I appreciate is that you listen so carefully to these songs and explain the importance of very subtle aspects of the songs.
It explains why my playing sounds so flat when I try to copy songs.
I love the detail of the Wings bass as well as the detail of the song.
Sounds incredible. Everyone always focuses only on the guitars but it's cool to see a video on Paul's bass playing.
Yes my favourite Beatles fan channel!
II've been watching your videos for about ten years now, since I started singing and playing music. I've learned how to sing harmonies without losing the key of the line I'm singing thanks to your work. And of course, I love The Beatles even more every time you show us these kind of hidden gems. I'm currently studying Musical Arts, and you are one of the people who has made me love music even more. Grazie, maestro!
All the time I've been playing this on bass I've thought to myself that I was close but not very exact to the original, but I couldn't really figure out the differences. This totally shows me the differences. Thanks!
Great observations on The Beatles music. Since it first came out, I must have listened to it hundreds of times. Without thinking about it, or analysing, mistakes stand out like a ‘sore thumb.’ It’s lovely to hear you dissect the playing, and show us what they did. Like many other fans, I find it incredible that The Beatles had amassed a respectable body of work, all before they were thirty. Wow ! The talent in that band was unbelievable. As we all hung on every new offering, we knew they were ‘geniuses.’ The passage of time just showed me the measure of their genius. I recall my father and uncles tearing it down, telling me to ‘get some proper music on.’ Further questioning revealed that ‘proper music,’ was something like Bing Crosby or Vera Lynne. Yuk! Young people today can’t imagine the magnitude of the rift between us back then. Although the ‘generation gap’ may eventually eclipsed by all this with their ‘woke, preferred pronouns and thirty or so different genders that are now available to us.’ I know we shocked our parents with the ‘sixties,’ but was it really as bad as all this new stuff? Perhaps the very question labels me as old, uncool or whatever! At least I don’t name call them, or racially slur them. In fact, I think I’m quite tolerant and open minded. And I’ve never uttered the words, ‘nothing a stint in The Army wouldn’t cure, or get a proper hair cut.’ Nor do I criticise their clothes. We were all young rebels once!
It's so nice to see the evolution of your channel. The quality of the audio videos is getting better and you are always very friendly, in addition to having a wonderful teaching method! Congratulations on the job! Hugs from Brazil. ❤🇧🇷
Bravo. Great video thank you. Lifelong guitar player here and you nailed it!!!
Thank you for this tutorial.
You either have the most incredible ear I have ever seen or you listen to this music at very slow motion I think it's just genius musical ability even your harmonies that you do by yourself apart I can't tell but put together it's pure perfection my late brother was a musician for 60 years he read music could tell notes by ear and play guitare so well that he was tired of it and he taught himself to play drums he picked that up fairly quick but as he grew older he switched to jazz he took lessons from one of the best jazz drummers in Boston a Berkeley professor he told him just practice your timing and send me video's I'll tell you what to work on and he was quite impressed so where the members of his band they all thought he went to berkly music school to like then even though they never made a living at music he actually was and air conditioning refrigeration tec.who was tired of being dirty so he went back to school nights and weekends and got his bachelor's then his masters his company offered him the managers position the regular guy wanted to go back to repairs and didn't want to learn computers so he got a good raise company car and he new enough about the trade he new witch guy to send where he retired three years ago but his band was making decent money he had back up guitarists bass players keyboard players but he stuck with the best he learned to sail from a book and will he was as close to a genius I ever met then two weeks ago he passed he was in good shape no smoking no drinking or drugs his second marriage was comming up on 23 years a great man and I have been trying to learn bass for 40 years and just don't have that talent keep making these there incredible and live every day like it could be your last hope I didn't depress you that was not my intent thanks I love the beatles
this guy is amazing the way he teaches WOW
I love your love for details and how well you make them notice. Thank you very much for that. Trive
Nice Tutorial..keep making video about beatles..👍👍👍
I think he can handle that..
Loved this!! I cannot wait for the Paperback Writer video!!
Great work, I can hear the difference when you you play and other covers. You forever amaze me and teach me how to listen.
Good to see you. You taught me how to set up the guitar. Much Love.
Very nice sound and methodically explained. It took me a while to break old habits but got it down with the swagg to match
Fantastic work, Galeazzo! ... and even though I guess McCartney never spent a jiff worrying about these details (his ears probably just told him his sound was good), they nonetheless make a huge difference, especially in pop music, whose greatest wealth (on my humble opinion) is the incredible variety of timbres and sounds it can offer to its fans. A much richer palette compared to those of Classical Music or Jazz (Orchestras, alas, sound very much the same...). My music is Jazz but I happily subscribed to your channel, because it seems to me (by far) the finest Musical channel from our Country. ... and because I like the Beatles, of course 😊. A great week to you and to everybody 😊.
Your guess is incorrect. A player of Paul's caliber works out various solutions during the making of an album.
@@richsackett3423 I don’t know where you get this from, Rich… I work a lot on my playing (I play the Piano): sometimes even days on a same few bars, trying to make my part sound as if I were the pianist I’d like it to be. And then I watch ‘Get Back’ and I see it takes two days - two and a half top - to this guy to write a song: an epic song like ‘Let it Be’ or ‘Get Back’: with melody, chords, lyrics, arrangement… everything. And then he gets back to smoking, joking and chilling with his pals. Or I remember in Scorsese’s movie when Eric Clapton says that they recorded ‘While my Guitar gently Weeps’ in an afternoon and that he was amazed by McCartney 'playing the Piano, singing harmonies', etc… so I’m sure that he had many possible solutions in his mind but at the same time he gave me the impression to be pretty confident about the way he sounded… a nice day to you and to everybody, Enrico 😊.
But of course mine was just a guess, so I can be as wrong as hell... nice to talk about these things, anyway... 😊
friend, which is the bass?
Some really great insights, along with the audio proof to back up what you're saying. I can't wait to tackle this bass line anew, but it's going to take some effort to unlearn the way I've been playing it forever.
Very nice job my friend and your tone and touch was spot on to the original line and bass track by Paul!
I love the sound of strings for a fretless bass when they are put on a regular bass guitar.
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I play an old maple neck Fender P bass. I change strings about once every four years, just standard flat wounds that sound as dead as a door nail. Forgot to mention. I had all the frets removed forty years ago. Long story . I never even thought of electric bass strings for a fretless . I’ll have to look into it. G.F. is getting the closest sound to Paul’s Rick 4001 I’ve ever heard.
7:05 is perfect! There are always different versions that tell you to bend the strings at that part, but I like your version better
amigo cual es el bajo?
Thanks!
Thank you Stephen :)
Nice, this dude helped me calibrate my telecaster via email a couple of years ago :)
Grazie, Galeazzo! Mi aiuti a completare le mie ricerche.
Glad to see you are still making videos. I think I have been watching for a decade. You always have interesting stuff.
Excellent work. This is quality information and much appreciated. You are quite articulate sir!
thank you for your excellent, and very accurate explanations, delivered in a friendly, pleasant tone !
Another great lesson. Thank you.
THanks. Thats a gerat Lesson. To be honest, I exactly played Come Together as he described in the beginning of this Video, but now I will change !!
Very interesting. Subtle differences that actually make a difference. Great video!
Just when you knew how to play it, Galeazzo comes along 😅. Great video as always! Thx!
Sempre impeccabile nel rendere omaggio ai leggendari Fab 4.....sei un mito
Omg this video is so amazing! I’m so excited for the upcoming deep dives more Beatles song tones!
i so apreciate your work!
Great scholarly work! I appreciate what you do!
Paul es el mejor bajista del mundo.
You bet :)
Love the subtlety
Thank you, Galeazzo! Great lesson as always.
Brilliant tuition once again mr Fruda👍
I like this kind of format sir
Very nice to hear you again ! Excellent video, thanks for your explanationband details !
Thank you. Very helpful
Nicely done my friend across the Atlantic !!
Excelente trabajo!!!
Spettacolare tutorial!!!! Addirittura suoni come fossi un mancino!!!! Grande Maestro... Un abbraccio Fabio Guidi
In the McCartney321 u can see paul playing the D D notes on the 10th fret E string, not the 5th fret A string btw
Thanks !! Entiendo más el Inglés Británico que el Americano 😂.. I am a fan of the Beatles, since I was a child, and you have a very good way of explaining, I will always follow your videos. Greetings from Culiacán Mexico
Excellent, as usual.
Very detailed, thank you!
You're very welcome!
I'd like to see you cover the outro of the song. I'm talking about the part where it stays on the D chord and John sings "Come Together" over and over. I've heard the isolated bass, and even though it's all just one note, Paul is doing some really interesting quick slides. Or maybe they're bends or hammer ons. It sounds like he's playing a super quick C# over and over right before the D. Except it sounds sharper than a C#, just flat of a D. I can't exactly tell how he makes the sound, so I'd love to hear your interpretation of it.
It's hammer-ons, then he gradually transitions into picking every note. He does some slide-ups to the 12th fret at the fade-out.
Magnificient job, as ever. Thanks.
Fantastic, as always.
Hey man! Long time no see! Looking great mate
Grazie! It’s fantastic to learn every detail of tune.
Cool! I've been playing it correctly all these years.
Wow! I can really hear what you're saying in the recording. So cool!
I've arranged this tune for keyboard so I was very interested in your take. Tough to reproduce the big slide he does on the bass.
Yeah the hammer on on the G fixed it for me thanks. There was just something missing on the slide on the back end, just sounded weak and tinny for me but that hammer on then slide gets the feel of that riff for me. I do wonder if that "caress" you picked up on is just bad string muting and it ended up sounding good because I have done that a few times in other songs where I kind of fail upwards in muting and it gives a bit more of a dynamic feel for it when its repeatable.
Bravissimo. Grazie mille, Gale
amazing detail.
Wow. Thank you GF!
56 years later I'm still discovering little tricks that McCartney played. Taxman for instance - the second octave D is struck twice!!
Bravo exactly
Bravo, Galeazzo! Spot on.
Superb piece, this!
I have tried countless different ways to play this line, my all time favorite bass performance, but never managed to fully capture the nuances in the up- and downslides. Thank you soo much for setting this straight!
Same here!!!
Me too!!! Great lessons always.thx.
Super how you Show this..lg from Germany, Ellen 🎼🎶🎸✌❤
Nice dissection
Thank you
love your channel keep up the good work love the beatles too also i am actually wearing a Beatles shirt right now lol
Superb!!!
Paul is a musical 🎼 🎶 genius
Hah, so much easier to learn these things than when I started over 30 years ago. But from listening to the isolated bass track, I really thought Paul hits the high F with his pinkie on the 15th fret (D string) when he's playing the main Dm riff. I get a fatter tone with that note than on the G string.
BTW, the way my hands move there is similar to how I play his fast part in Taxman. There's a lot of interesting stuff for you to cover in Taxman, starting with the fact that Paul plays two quick 16th notes on the D octave. A lot of players miss that!
Very nice! I been playing wrong my whole life!!
Bravo davvero! Grazie
I’d like to see how you play the little bass line - mini solo - in the break. I can never get that right.
That bass has a unique sound.
Great job!
More please.
I've played it like this for about 20 years. If you let the 12th fret harmonic ring out, that's cool too.
Fantastic. What kind of a fill is played in the main riff at 2:30 (second round after the solo), please?
Grazie maestro, saluti dal Guatemala per Los Bichos!
Wonderful!
GF always great to learn from you
Spot on!
Hello I think your videos are always spot on. My question is , Could you use flat wound strings to get close to the original recorded sound? Thank you if u answer my question.
For this specific bass part you need Rotosound RS88LD but otherwise than this video I always use Pyramid strings flat wound for both the Rick and the Hofner
Your Facebook page mentions that your Ric copy is a shorter scale. What is the scale length? A regular 4001c64s is 33 1/4" or 84.5 cm
Well if it’s a shorter scale, and he’s using Pyramid short scale (not here of course) than I’d assume it’s that weird scale in between medium and short, like the Hofner. Just a guess. I’d like him to answer your question as well, just out of curiosity.
Thank you soo much for doing this video....now i understand clearly how to play it. We play that song live and could never achieve the same sound Paul does before. Loove your videos, the Beatles áre My favourite band of all times, and Paul is My favourite Beatle,bass player,singer,composer of all time!!
And the famous riff on the song's time stamp 2mins 26 sec... I play it how it sounds on the record but when I isolated the track I was stunned it was a simple pull off. Funny though, I still play it my way as it sounds more like the record than when I play it like the record!
Very interesting
che lavorone!
love it!