Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles (Full Isolated Guitar)
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2024
- This is the full, unedited isolated guitar track from Strawberry Fields Forever (take 7). This take features John on vocals and guitar, Paul on bass and mellotron, and Ringo on drums. The final mix was created by splicing take 7 and 26 together. Different than the final mix, take 7 ends with a jam. Hope you find this interesting!
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From I Wanna Hold Your Hand to this in a a few short years is astounding.
Drugs
Lots of folks took drugs. I wish i could have written this due to drugs. LOL @@Hyakudeaths
@@haysfordays natural talent + drugs
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Everyone says acid but there's literally no evidence of the Beatles being habitual users. There's quotes of them praising it and quotes of them denouncing it. It gave them the awakening to experiment with their music but not much more than that. Acid isn't the key to selling millions of records and becoming stars, people.
From a guitarist's perspective, even though the audio quality of this outtake is pretty bad, you can still hear how creative John's guitar work could be. A lot of melodic and harmonic ideas coming through here. John was technically not the best guitarist and not as good as George but he knew instinctively how to use it as a conduit for his own creativity when songwriting. It's also interesting to me that John chose to play this on the Epiphone Casino (a fully hollow guitar that is sometimes prone to feedback) rather than the more modern Fender Stratocasters that he and George had gotten during the Rubber Soul sessions.
Sometimes, you pick the guitar that sounds best for the song. The mellower Casino tone suits this song much better than the Strat twang, really.
Honestly, I find it refreshing in this day and age of all technical 1,000 note guitar solos to hear something like this. It really doesn't require all that to express yourself beautifully and with a beautiful simplicity and it's original too. John knew that full well, that's what really makes a true musicians musician. He's not playing all over everything, just serving the song.
Casino sounds better than a Strat any day of the week.
@@ericwalters5382 It’s considered a hollow body guitar - semi-hollow guitars have a central block of wood running through the body, whereas the Casino is essentially an acoustic guitar with electronics.
@@thomaspappalardo7589
& once again you are correct Sir. Sad considering I own a vintage Casino.
It's just so sublime how in isolation, these abstract fills and arpeggios drift along like unruly tumbleweeds, appear and disappear in the mix and you recognize them when they show up. Unmistakable. John Lennon knew what he was doing here, despite his initial indecision(s). Masterful. Is it my favorite Beatles song? I have to say, Strawberry Fields Forever, comes mighty close. It's a subconscious thing welling up from John Lennon's past. His gift to us all.
So well put.
It's magic. All of it.
You have a great way with words. I have a feeling this isn't one continuous recording but a splice up. Simply amazing playing. If you heard the song minus Lennon's guitar, you'd never imagine what he plays would add so much texture and feel, but it does.
SFF is one of my top Beatles songs along with Nowhere Man
@@frankiefender822 100%. '65-'66 was the peak, imo. Desert Island songs.
No other guitar player on earth would’ve come up with this for this song
100%
Yeah this shit is so brilliant that it’s almost making me angry at my own comparative inadequacy lol.
I gotta give it to you, you’re right.
He’s making the most out of the less he knows
Totally agree.
Sixty years later and it’s still magical hearing the different instruments in Beatles songs.
I challenege ANYONE, that claims this guitar track is pure rubbish, to pickup a guitar and try to duplicate it....not just the unique erratic picking pattern/ notes, but also the feeling of confusion and nostalgia it incorporates. This guitar track , is simply a 1 of akind performance/recording that completely captures Johns feeling of isolation, nostalgia , childhood and feeling lost and confused as he enters his adult years.
Totally agree... it's all over the place....with subtlety and purpose.... and so intricate just beautiful
It's not a difficult guitar piece
@@peanutm9346 maybe not but it's the way it's played
We will never see anything like it again. Gift from the Angels.
That’s not how that works, theologically speaking. But I get your point.
can't just say that - please explain @@stringtheoryguitars4952
Great comments. Ask yourself when you’ve heard any guitar player put something like this down? I never have. It’s so abstract and yet so expressive and emotional. It perfectly reflects the song and expands the emotional feel while holding it all together. Pretty much completely original. John had some magic in him.
Reminds me of daniel rossens guitar work, on grizzly bear and on his own
You obviously haven’t heard a large chuck of music history John clearly draws from for inspiration on guitar. It’s not original, really
Listening to this brings peace to my soul
It reminds me a little of some stuff from Radiohead, it's beautiful, thanks for this
They are known to have also used Epiphone Casinos a lot. It works for this kind of arpeggiating thing very well
Radiohead es la banda más beatle después de The Beatles!
@@lobofobia2028Lotta different artists can occupy that slot though. Radiohead are good but lots of people make catchy music
0:26 sounds like intro to My Iron Lung
@@featheredravendawg i was looking for this comment i heard the first 3 notes and i was like nah no way
What a great photo of John in the thumbnail!
He looks sad. He missed Paul McCartney (1942-1966).
@@NaaHva Possibly...
@@NaaHva No, just no.
@@NaaHvaNever forget: the guy that supposedly replaced Paul wrote “Hey Jude”, “She’s Leaving Home”, “The Long and Winding Road”… They should have replaced Paul way sooner!! 😂😂
@@NaaHvaPaul isn’t dead, you are.
The ending is so beautiful
How does someone imagine this from nothing, from a blank slate??? Genius!
Is there anything that doesn't move me about John Lennon ? I no longer have words to express how much this man means to me... How much he has always touched me...
People would say that’s sloppy playing if they heard just that. The beauty of musical recordings and bands
Thing about tracking songs in a studio is that the slight imperfections are truly where the magic is. This is clearly a case of that. Gives a song its understated personality that people can feel.
It’s not sloppy at all
You have to remember the guitar pickup and recording technology at the time wasn't what it is today, ply, no doubt the tape has suffered the ravages of time .hence it sounds a bit " wobbly"
It's a lot of good things, but it really is sloppy.@@nosferatu2
@@genepoole1771 you’re just one of those obnoxious guitar nerds
These tracks are like puzzle pieces. It's not until they are all together do you hear the masterpiece.
Great comment.
The more I listen, the greater the wonder.
Almost an echo of a life better lived.
Stunning x
John was such a brilliant rhythm guitar player. From his early days to that cool signature banjo strum to his later orchestral fingerpicking. So raw and so real with his soul in every chord and every note he ever played.
Something incredibly modern about this that i cant place.....this hits like a freight truck. Thank you.
a small piece of Beatles music can make dying a peaceful painless experience. We didn't need to meet them to experience them. We can experience them through recordings.
The bend on that initial lick reminds me of "Soul to Squeeze" by RHCP--i never noticed til hearing it isolated, but it's stark.
Basing your style on a Beatles sound is always a sound decision, even decades later...
Thanks John.
very reminiscent indeed - good catch!
God, I love this early take of the song with this guitar part. Absolutely beautiful.
When broken down this way, the changes stand out and its relativity to the song is obscured. As a writer i am still amazed how parts equal a whole... and the strange turns i have made getting there. 🎼
何とも情緒あふれる名演。
この才能は羨ましい限り。
Exacto
I just can't get enough of studying about this piece.
Hearing this just makes me appreciate the song even more, if that were possible. I really feel like he is sat on his own just riffing away with the guide vocal track in his cans and feeling his mood in Spain when he worked out most of the lyrics and structure. Geoff Emerick was more of a Paul fan (classical tastes) but when he heard the first take of this it nearly knocked him over..a few weeks later the firsts run through of a day in the life put him out for the count.
John Lennon is the very definition of a genius
You're so right !
This is truly incredible
I had to scour Boston and Cambridge MA back in the day for bootleg Beatle CDs to hear these type of tracks...and I sure found them. It was like chasing down the Holy Grail...especially the SFForever tracks with the legendary slow version/fast version merge even tho different keys, etc. This reminds me of that magic, running home to put the CD on and hearing these outtakes, hearing their talking...the Beatles could (can) transport you to another world , let me take you as I'm going too.....
Mystery Train! Second Coming! I had to drive to Harvard Square from Maine to score Unsurpassed Masters and Ultra Rare Trax in the late 80s.
@@ruppertale3319 YES!! Unsurpassed Masters vol 1, 2, 3,4...so good!!
@ruppertale3319 went to both places, 2nd coming was my favorite they had choice CDs. There was another one...Nuggets? They had them too. The good old days!
as a guitarplayer john was very underrated.to create such a rich,moody and complex guitar track is something very few can do.and john did this on many songs.
Yes, this performance he does, really records and captures a moment in time/ of his life....his picking style and the chord progressions, recreate a feeling of bitter sweet nostalgia, confusion , isolation, and a yearning to return to his childhood days, when life could often be much simplier and enjoyable. I feel sorry for listeners that hear this performance and claim it is " amateur rubbish" because such false claims, truly indicate that the listener is probably not a advanced musician or songwriter and are only able to make comments based upon their limited musical knowledge and are ignorant of how difficult it is to assemble a variety of chords, playing style and be able to create a mood and atmosphere, just with 1 instrument.
Yes the Beatles were also under-rated
Very interesting, thanks for posting this.
Fantastically imaginative, and completely unique playing. Typically John.
Many thanks for uploading this.
Hauntingly beautiful -- I love the way John does little slides on the bass notes. SFF is my all-time favorite Beatles track.
My favorite Beatles song!! LOVE IT!!
Perfect in it's imperfections 🤘🥰🤘
In 1967 .. their band role started getting crazy .. for example in 1968 .. in "hey jude" george is the bass player because paul is piano
Paul played lead guitar on some earlier songs like Tax Man and Ticket To Ride and others.
Not on the recording. On the recording Paul overdubbed the bass later. There are even photos from this session with Paul overdubbing the bass on Fender Jazz Bass. George only "played" the bass during the promo video shooting.
@@onderov its a rickenbacker bass .. not a fender ... plus the hofner could do alot better than the rickenbacker but since their instrumets changed in 67 with new ones
@@RedTheOiOiOi Photos taken on 1 August 1968 (Hey Jude overdubs session) show Paul with Fender Jazz Bass, not Rickenbacker. That's what my post is about.
It is really confusing regarding who is playing guitar or bass and which brand of instruments they are. It was until recently that I learned that Fender basses were used quite a bit on the (White Album) and albums that followed. You get a picture in your mind of McCartney with a Hofner or Rickenbacker only to discover that it is a Fender or not be Paul at all. When I learned that Paul played the lead on “Tax Man” I was stunned.
beautiful
I’ve always wanted to learn this song…a bit challenging for me ☹️
It's sort of an intermediate song. Try to just learn it in little segments until you put it all together. Here is a pretty accurate lesson that shows what's going on. ruclips.net/video/oiKgHbHBOLM/видео.htmlsi=2cpqBge3otQ5OkOS
@@gregorymason3913 true, I think its more of the strumming, not so much the chords you know what I mean. Thanks for tips tho! I’ll def check it out!
@@wide_awakeyeah it’s definitely the picking pattern
@@Liam-xi3ss for sure
Apparently, so did John....
Shining example of why gear and fidelity are so much less important than song writing.
Wrong. This is a great song that this part is not reflective of by gear, fidelity or the less than skillfull instrument mastery or creativity of John in this iso.
Luckily, it gets eaten up in the mix.
There was no more intention to have the flaws of his musicianship highlighted anymore than if Yoko was bleating in the background.
@@---wd3hp I'm not saying they wouldn't have rather recorded it with better Fidelity. I'm saying the songwriting shines through brightly enough where that matters very little.
And it's funny to hear somebody talk about musicianship regarding a song that they weren't part of writing. Art is 100% subjective, especially to the artist. Are you saying he played it wrong? That's hilarious!!
@@CaseyDarwin I am saying you are talking clueless unintelligible gibberish.
Давно хотел найти трэк гитары этой песни. Большое спасибо! С любовью из России ❤
I learn something new in every assembling of the song. It a reverence.
John said until his dying day he was going to record this song the way he wanted.
John never knew what he wanted, apart from a pool.
@@gutgolf74 He said George Martin messed it up.
It sounds pretty damn good to me! John was always complaining about or dissing his recordings
@@marcchrys He also didn't like the sound of his own voice. He asked Geoge Martin if he could change it with reverb, echo, or anything else.
@@strothermartin5368if it wasn't for Martin's production ability, this song wouldn't sound like the masterpiece it is.
Brilliant!
fabulous thanks
Love the Sgt. Pepper look here!! Looks very distinguished!!
dapper is the word
You can hear similar stuff in Sun King!
Awesome.
John plays the guitar
Hence the thumbnail
John was underrated on guitar. George was technically a better guitarist, but John could do a lot more than just play rhythm guitar. He actually came up with some of the best Beatles riffs and even took a few solos on the records. For him is was more of a creative outlet than virtuosity.
Thanks detective
Lennon was a great guitarist, totally underrated if that's possible.
If you look for an underrated guitarist in the Beatles, that's McCartney.
@@gutgolf74 I think people are familiar with Paul’s musical ability.
I love this, it's a bit unfinished in my opnion. I feel like he could have cleaned up the guitar work a bit, just the fits and starts. I love it though, somehow it fits perfectly into the chaos of the full track.
Thanks!
He was always the most comfortable with his Epiphone Casino as his electric.
They all had them ( except Ringo ).
It's a practice session and didn't need all the bells and whistles.
Increible
Reminds me so much of the playing of John Frusciante.
You can hear the future of pop music in this. So many echoes of bands that were to come
Súper tema Jhon Lennon la magia The Beatles
Gonna learn how to play a guitar just to play strawberry fields someday
I got the Feeling
People always ask if you could go back in time where and when would you go to. I would want to go back and watch Lennon record or even demo one of his masterpieces like this. And then of course warn him about December 1980 😢
It's a bit like the climbing arpeggios later used on the choruses of Sexy Sadie, just following the vocal melody of Strawberry Fields.
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Mass ueder Mr
Donovan hadn't taught him how to properly finger pick yet.
There is no such thing as properly finger pick
@@stevemabus6178 OK amateur.
I find this way more interesting than those simple travis patterns on songs like Dear Prudence and Julia. And this sounds like it's a pick rather than fingers.
from this isolation I can tell that the guitar was played with the chords in the key of c but tuned down a full step
Yeah exactly
Inkredibbile Punk Lennon experience ❤
I would say either George on guitar and the bass was overdubbed since I find it unlikely that Paul did bass and mellotron, or George on bass, which I think is probably what the lineup was, but no matter what, i think this is a great video
It certainly is true that during these sessions, and those to follow for what became Sgt. Pepper, Paul would often stay behind at the studio after the other Beatles had gone, spending hours alone working out his bass parts and then overdubbing them onto the basic track. So, it's likely this song could've been no exception.
Didn't George use Rocky on this track?
It’s John.
I'm sure I read that the mellotron intro was recorded separately and edited on
this is John. i was never sure but after listening to this it's so sloppy there is no way in hell it's George@@JoaoGabriel-lk9cv
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Fighting with .012 strings and a high action.
It’s in D standard, easier to play with less string tension.
I used to put 12s on my Casino, it was the only to make chords sound in tune
... and flat wound strings!
@@itriedmany the boys were probably using 10 gauge roundwounds at this point
sounds like he used a similar picking pattern in “i got a feeling”
Is there a subtle Leslie on this ? 1966
Who else could write a song like this and make it a number 1 hit? No song sums up the genius of Lennon and McCartney's songwriting better than this. The way they could turn almost anything they touched into a catchy hit. Examine the chorus of this song and I reckon it's probably unique. In the original key of C, you start with C major: Let me take you down coz I'm going to. On 'to' we have G minor. So straight away with his first move we've entered dark territory by borrowing from the parallel minor key. Borrowing a chord from c minor is way darker than just playing a minor chord from c major which is what most people would have done in any song they were hoping to have a hit with. But then it gets a lot weirder with his second move. He plays A major, which doesn't belong to either c major or minor. It's a secondary dominant. But that's not the weird bit, the 4 notes he sings over it are Bb, C, C#, and G. So if we take the melodic and harmonic notes in the context of the key of C, we get: C, Db(C#), E, G, A, Bb. To make this a full scale we need one more note, F seems a good choice. So now we have C, Db, E, F, G, A, Bb. This is no mode, I don't even know what the name of this scale is. This really weird scale is smack bang in the middle of the hcorus of a really catchy number 1 hit song. And what 4 words does he do this over? 'Nothing is real'. Genius!
Does anyone know how people isolate these single instruments? AI or electronic filtering? Or perhaps they had access to the studio tapes?
AI applications, web or plugins
@@ryanmckinnon6465 Thx. Really interesting. I'm a software engineer. That must be biotch to code and program. But maybe there are some open-source algorithms available. To code it all from scratch would be painful.
Actually, many of these isolated tracks became available by digging into the files of The Beatles Rock Band video game. For that game to work right, isolated tracks had to be used so they could be muted when each player doesn't play/misses notes
@@jtn191 Wow, that is very interesting. Thx
Too bad that they didn’t have those clip on guitar tuners back, then…
Mix that with bass and and Ringo's minimal drums........Shangri-La
I think this is take 7. Not the finish version that has the orchestra.
George Martin was indeed a visionary producer.
It almost reminds me of Johnny marr
"cranbury sauce......."
Tabs please?
I can see where he was trying to go with this.
There is this ominous story about this tune being slowed down ever so slightly in the middle part which supposedly changed the pitch and tempo of the whole song (There are even YT videos on this) ...Well, somehow I can't hear anything of that in this guitar track. Guess the world is round after all, eh?
It's because this isn't taken from the famous version you're talking about. They did tons of takes of Strawberry Fields. The famous version was made by combining take 7, the band version for the first bit, featuring this guitar part, and take 26, George Martin's orchestrated version for the rest. But they were in different keys. If you speed up or slow down music., it raises or lowers the pitch. So they sped one up slightly, and slowed the other down so they became the same pitch somewhere between. The reason you don't hear it on this guitar track is because if they'd have just stuck to the band version only, they wouldn't have needed to change the speed at all. The full take of the band version exists to isolate this guitar part.
Is John playing this I always thought it was george
George played the overdubs, I believe (including the finger-tapping after the final chorus)
Paul plays the lead guitar fills at the end
John Lennon's rhythm guitar It's only 1966 here! Guitar sounds so far ahead of their time that other guitarists can pretend that they invented them a half decade later in 1971. (e.g. Cream , Zep, Yes, Genesis, Rush ...etc) IMO.
Where was George on this track......he hadn't walked out of a recording session or disappeared in annoyance on how things were going, I presume? In other words, Lennon's guitar or self accompaniment was by design? Why didn't they get into Gibson hollow or semi-hollow body guitars with their bright humbuckers? George was into the Rick sound for several years, but i don't recall any Gibsons, other than the SG Standard, and a short term use of a Les Paul as I recall.
The waitlist was much longer for Gibsons in the UK than epiphone, Gibson had just bought the brand and they encouraged them. These were still built beside Gibsons at the same factory back then, and sold at a price only a bit lower. Humbuckers weren't really too much their favorite outside of the few times George used the Les Paul Clapton gave him.
i doubt the beatles would've been put on a waiting list lol
@@SD-wt6bg They were a phenomenon back then for certain but not sure that the manufacturers had already gifted them with their own free distribution channel or early delivery access.....but who knows, perhaps. There wasn't much difference between Gibson and Epiphone during those early days.....one built in Michigan, one in Tennessee......today, Epi is synonymous with Chibson, not Gibson.
George played some wonderful parts on this track, but this is John's isolated contribution. The Epiphone Casino is basically the same guitar as the Gibson 330, the only real difference was the shading of the sunburst, the colour of the pickguard and shape of the headstock. George briefly played a Gibson 345 around 1965 as well as an SG in 66 and a Les Paul around 68/69, but like John he kept coming back to the the Casino. Both he and John did seem to prefer Gibson for acoustics.
There are a million guitarists who could play this perfectly after hearing it, but none of them could come up with anything this powerful or original. Instead of hiring studio musicians and producing his solo albums (Mind Games, Walls & Bridges) he should have hired a producer (NOT Phil Spector, though!) and played the guitar himself.
Sounds like it tuned to D?
John playing in C, but tape slowed down so it sounds like B flat
@@Bernard-ShakeyThis is take 7 which was recorded in this key and not slowed down
@@distanceovertime7806Thanks, my bad. I always thought the Beatles just used tape speed variation rather than down tuning. I watched @davidbennetpiano 's video on the song and he says this version is recorded in Bflat (so a whole step down from the original C) and the tape speed adjusts the pitch -57%
@@Bernard-Shakey The official released version is a comp between Take 7 and Take 26 (there is an edit around the 50 second mark where it switches from one to the other). Take 7 was recorded at a lower pitch, while take 26 was recorded in C and then slowed down the tape. But the description of this video says it's the isolated guitar from take 7, so it doesn't have the edit and tape-slowed guitar on it
Yes, the guitar was tuned down a whole step. I could not figure out how it was played until I stumbled on that fact.
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La Maj : Sol b etc
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What is it...?...
My takeaway is that john had the entire melody worked out in what can only be described as a genius level.. much of what is heard on the eventual record doesn't showcase this core melody he's playing here and it's a loss for the song, in my opinion
I always thought this was George.
I don't think anybody today would put out such a rough sratch track...sounds like a first take idea track
Sounds like take 7
Take 1 sounds way different, very spacey with slide guitar.
I doubt this is the keeper take
Did you read the description???
Yes it is
A little out of tune in places- especially on the bass note.But the surrounding track covered it well.
It’s not out of tune. It’s absolutely perfectly in tune.
Are you perhaps trying to point out that some of the notes are intonated differently than a piano with tempered tuning?
@@hepphepps8356there are absolutely out of tune notes
This is why Lennon was never used on any Wrecking Crew sessions . . .
Lol
Yeah, he was too busy writing an unequaled succession of #1 hit songs. While the Wrecking Crew was busy embellishing someone elses work for scale..Which is why the wrecking crew gets such huge royalties. Lol.
And why the Wrecking Crew never wrote a SINGLE song.
Most impressive for me is the guitar is unprocessed and out of tune. Didn't matter.It was just another part of the wash that made the finished product.No producer in the world today would think like this.Autotune and a little chorus to smooth it out. 😢
Actually sounds out of tune at 1:08
lennon would sometimes purposefully be out of tune, so he could identify his guitar part, when he heard it on the radio. Just another unique aspect of the Beatles.
It sounds sloppy because it IS sloppy, but a great song.
Nothing great or imaginitive about this guitar part.
Ummm...this guitar part is 100% GREAT AND IMAGINITIVE.....completely unique. ..just like the whole song. In fact, this song may be the most important unique breakthrough hit radio song, ever created. So many rules were broken in this song both musically and from a studio recording standpoint. Even the drumwork is unique and imaginative. In the annals of popular music, this song stands alone.
@@davehimlin2374 it is a great song. It is a horrible performance by Lennon- hidden in the mix like a weak dodgeball player. Mostly ignorant comments by StarWars convention level uneducated.
@@---wd3hp i think lennons playing is entirely unique and perfect for the mood he was trying to convey. I am also confident, if he wanted to play it in a less erratic style, he could have easily done it. The way he slides into the bass notes while erratically picking the higher notes of each chord, is entirely unique and it gives the image of confusion, frustration, nostalgia...which is exactly what the song calls for. If people need to hear lennon playing a strict straight forward rhythm guitar part there are always songs like ALL MY LOVING or NORWEIGAN WOOD that supply that. I would never call the guitar part in this song as being horrible. I would call it being different, unique and DIFFICULT for other guitarists to pull off exactly as it is recorded. Lennon is proving he can change his playing styles in this song from other styles he did in other beatles songs. I call that diversity and impressive.....its not horrible and its not 1 dimensional.
@@---wd3hp " hidden in the mix" .....ive studied beatles music for 40+ years and played it. Many beatles songs have instruments somewhat hidden in the mix...it creates mystery, mood and a " wash" of sounds/sonic magic. With Beatles music, there is so much going on and so many different instruments, melodies , its impossible to have all that mixed at perfect levels so it can all be heard at the same time. ..especially when you consider many beatles songs were recorded on analog 4 track. Strawberry Fields is a sonic masterpiece...there is NOTHING in this song, that can properly be called/ labelled as " horrible.
@@davehimlin2374 save your rant for the star wars convention
It's out of tune!