Deconstructing Strawberry Fields Forever (Isolated Tracks)
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Magical Mystery Tour 1967
00:00 Drums, Tambourine and Maracas
04:05 Bass and Guitar
05:05 Vocals
07:58 Trumpets, Cellos, Mellotron, Drums Overdub, Piano, Maracas, Svarmandal and Guitar Solo - Розваги
Magical Mystery Tour 1967
00:00 Drums, Tambourine and Maracas
04:05 Bass and Guitar
05:05 Vocals
07:58 Trumpets, Cellos, Mellotron, Drums Overdub, Piano, Maracas and Guitar Solo
I thought John played the rhythm guitar. I think George's only contribution was the swarmandal, and some maracas.
@@elirosen1391 George Harrison: electric guitar, svarmandal, maracas
@bober_ probably the floor tom
@bober_ its only a Tambourine
@@elirosen1391 John played the casino for rhythm guitar and george played the slide guitar on the mellotron
Ringo's fills are amazing. So musical, so perfect for the song.
As instructed by Paul lol.
@@johnmc3862People always wanna discredit Ringo for his talents, but Paul couldn’t play this song on drums in the same perfect way as Ringo does. Ringo clearly came up with the fills himself since it’s his style. Paul added timpani to the percussion.
Too bad you don't know the facts. You weren't there. Also, almost ALL bands operate with a leader or director. That doesn't negate the talent of the musical ability or creativity of the individuals in any way.
Can we talk about this being a 1967 song... Sooooo ahead of their time
I always take it as the game changer. As a youth buying it - it was soooo different from anything else Beatle or not. The thing is that most of it was recorded in 1966. It was released in early February as a single. The experimental nature of it let alone the speed-change splices, orchestration, and all John psychedelia would spring from it.
@@allenf.5907 And maybe he did one better with " I' m the walrus".
That was my youth memory, my very first record.
The A side was " Hello goodbye" and I listened to it maybe 20 times before I put on the flip side and that was the eggman song.
I couldn' t got something out of it but was kind of fascinated.
Later on I recognized why.
" Well here' s another clue for you all the walrus was Paul."
Nah, it belong to its time
@@lesterpaul9657 Yep, Walrus was yet another climb in his psychedelic ladder. JL WAS the Walrus. .
They were actually working on SFF and Penny Lane in late 1966, and agreed to put them onto a single, leaving them off Sgt. Pepper album.
You can really see how genius they were when the song is broken down like this. Remarkable
Maestros
And how high they were
"They"
You mean George Martin.
@@sunkintree Only thing Martin did was compose the string arrangements. The ideas for the incorporation of a swarmandal, the mellotron part, the chord progession, vocal melody, guitar and bass arrangements, the whole drum part are the Beatles' ideas. Martin also of course helped with splicing and sticking the two different takes together but that's not part of writing a song; the idea for that was also John's.
How....the hell....does Ringo do that? Amazing.
Idk
If you mean weird tombeat, it is multiple takes bounced together
And tape processed (backwards and other experiments-thank you EMI recordist Geoff Emerick)
It's different takes put together, I actually taught myself how to play both takes, and it adds more stamina to your body, its fun!
Drug
From 9:58 to the end, the cello lines are killing me ! Genius, genius, genius ! In awe for the last 55 years. ❤️
All that on a 4 track. Amazing.
I am pretty sure that they used 2 4 track recorders, and they were not cassette recorders but high quality with wide tape. Also, I think the 4 final tracks were mostly made by combining tracks with the 2 machines. However, I think their last two records were recorded with 8 track machines. Whether it is the machines or fewer tracks/over dubs, they are far higher quality than sgt peppers and magical mystery tour. The White Album is also higher quality, probably because of fewer tracks and ovear dubs (even the couple records before sgt peppers are higher quality recordings, with exception of track "When I'm 64" which probably sounds better than rest of sgt peppers because of fewer tracks/over dubs. the difference between that cut and the others is huge in quality
@@ephraimlessell Good Morning, Good Morning suffers the most from overdubbing. The White Album isn't better quality though. That was mixed pretty badly in a single session but Giles' new mix fixes it. It sounds amazing now. Only Abbey Road and Let It Be were recorded onto 16-track. They were better in that they used transistors instead of valves, but they had their limitations. The Beatles couldn't get their usual guitar tones anymore and stuff like that, because of how the preamps in the desk responded. Abbey Road is noticeably their most modern sounding record. Let It Me not so much due to the scrappy way it was recorded and because of Spector's overdubs.
@@stitchgrimly6167 The Beatles never used 16 track recording technology. 8 tracks were the most they worked with. 16 track wasn't used by most of the UK recording studios til around 1970
@@childrenofminervaofficial4316 You're right. Thanks.
@@ephraimlessell they used just 4 track they just used bouncing alot and later on in like 68 or 69 they got 8 track
i’m still pretty sure this is the most amazing song i’ve ever heard
And at the very end Paul playing ‘You’re in the army now’ on the piano as a nod to the fact that John wrote this song whilst filming ‘How I won the war ‘ in 1966.
@Paul en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_in_the_Army_Now_(song)
Amazing find Arne! ua-cam.com/video/LDYEnvcNIH0/v-deo.html
Presumably public domain, but where ih SFF?
@Paul “You’re in the army now
You’re not behind a plow
You’ll never get rich by diggin’ a ditch
You’re in the army now.”
The "Trumpets, Cellos, Mellotron, Drums Overdub, Piano, Maracas and Guitar Solo" is like a lsd trip
John had done significant “research” tripping balls and was trying to express psychedelic consciousness
@@jabartone it’s worked
imho it's the best, most interesting track
ringos drum finale is still one of my favourite drum pieces ever
He was beating those things like they owed him money!
It's not just Ringo, it's all of them!
Ringo is a great drummer and the best of all drummers!
Never gets the cudos he deserves. His work here and on Come together I love
Hi Anthony, Although Ringo has been dismissed by Some of today's listeners, All of the Professional musicians that I know, or have read about, have nothing but the Highest level of Respect for him.. Not only as a player, but as a dear friend and Human Being.. People on these websites tend to focus on the Power Drummers, like John Bonham and Keith Moon, and they're great drummers, but Ringo has Always played for the benefit of the song.. No Flash, and no distractions.. The Quality of his work speaks for itself... Lary
@@larydixon4824 Maybe because he is so low in the mix when you listen to the records, but when you hear him isolated you really hear his subtelties and nuances.
@Anthony Solinas, You make a good point here, my friend.. George Martin has said that he had a tendency to minimize the drum tracks, but because Ringo never complained about it he thought that he was okay with it.. But on songs like this one, and some others like Rain and Walrus, the drums are mixed up in front as much as they were able to get away with at the time.. The Beatles were using some pretty groundbreaking techniques that no one else was doing on those records, even though there have been a lot of improvements in the recording process since then.. John especially was after the sound that was coming out of Motown at the time but EMI was really rigid in their policies. Geoff Emerick was constantly afraid of getting caught for breaking the rules.. The technology was being developed to keep up with The Beatles ideas.. They were recording these records with primitive equipment, technology, and a lot of determination.. Back when these songs came out, and even now, this music was really innovative and new.. And quite powerful... Lary
@@larydixon4824 Thank you for the insight, I love listening to how bands record, how they mic up all their instruments, especially the drums.
It's a perfect example of how fabulous Ringo was / is as a drummer!!! A genius, who put the musical perfection far abive his ego... the opposite of the vast majority of drummers, who try to play very very fast, without sny musicality... And to play fast is very, very easy to any good musician...
Easily the most fascinating Beatle song.
You can feel the psychedelia throughout - they were now in another musical world. Truly nothing was real - or was it?
A day in the life, Tomorrow never knows, Within you, within out, beause, sunking
I'd say 2nd-most fascinating Beatles song, behind "I Am The Walrus"
@@thomasolszewski9410 yes… those two. But strawberry fields is special.
It has perhaps Lennon’s best ever lyrics
holy shit 1:29 is terrifying ... feels like someone calling from the afterlife
Yes
This guitar part 4:09 is so psycodelic, i love how it sound like
Yeah the guitar is so short but very cool. Brilliant actually.
My favorite part of the song, I remember the first time I heard it I kept waiting for the rest of the song for it to play again lol
It’s honestly kind of haunting.
Psychedelic.
It is both Psycho and delic.
This makes me appreciate the hell out of George Martin. He really was the bones of the whole group. John the brain. Paul the muscle and skin. George the soul. Ringo the heart.
Ive never read a more beautiful analogy of the beatles.couldnt agree more
That's pretty, man.
You have a good idea but it's so inaccurate. Everyone who has traversed there catalogue learned about there formation and there personalities would never say John was the brain. He himself would slap you he hated thinking about things that way, the brain was George or Paul I would say George, John was the soul, John was most definitely the soul.
@@stephenstrang590aul was the brain
@@stephenstrang590 I’d say John was the heart
Ringos militant snare drumming on this track is probably the greatest performance of his career
strawberry, rain, if I needed someone are my fav Beatles songs. I kinda wish they stayed closer to those.
All use the mixolydian mode…interesting 🤔
drums never sounded like this before or since
deconstructing these songs make me dig em even more
I love the "Stamp Out Beatles" shirt Harrison is wearing.
The slide guitar and mellotron drop down into the first chorus is life altering
Seeing John's original handwritten lyrics was also life altering. They were like religious relics, they're in the British Library (written on a Lufthansa napkin).
I came here because of a documentary on the Beatles that had that smooth slide into the chord for the first time ALONG with strong bass in both channels...it's like, hey wait...where's THAT remaster here on UA-cam?
You can hear on the anthology 2 version how George started working on those on the guitar
The slide guitar is courtesy of a mellotron too.
Yes - it’s a pitch bent Tron guitar. It’s really obvious on Take 1 on Anthology 2, when they reverse the slide up the way and it hangs and dies away downward - a bottleneck can’t hold a note like that, but a Mellotron can! #MostPsychedelicInstrumentEver 🌸✌️ 12:05
05:52 You can hear the splice they made to join the two different takes, in slightly different tempos and keys. Barely perceptible in the final mix. Quite the feat for 1967
My thoughts exactly. Taking great chances with the composition as well as instrumentation. Pushing the envelope and then pushing it some more. When I listen to Strawberry Fields I'm hearing an intro repeating. I mean , who does that ? But listen to the end result. Brilliant! A timeless classic!
Yes!! When John says "because I'm going to"! I could never hear it so clearly than on this post.....so AWESOME! And so AMAZING....especially in light of the technology of '67.....
7:58...my favorite sound in music, introduced to me when I was 17. Incidentally, that was the year the single PENNY LANE/STRAWBERRY FIELDS was released! LOL! That was the 3rd year of living my life with Beatles music every day. I'm 71 now and have never had a day without them yet...still learning new stuff about them! And, still loving them&their music.
Listening to the trumpet and cello arrangements that George Martin came up with... just the right touch everywhere. They never quite do the same thing twice, they keep developing. So brilliant.
1:32 the rolling of the bass kicks!
I like how it intensified the rhythm from 10:33 to 10:38
4:00 Paul with upside down Telecaster never seen before, or since?
4:58 The coolest Lennon with with the Fu Man Chu , side burns, and “ National Health “ glasses?
Thanks for posting/sharing.
George Martin scores were spot on and I can now hear them as they were written.
Thank you.
Youre welcome
That’s Paul’s esquire telecaster
Cool!
Thanks Via Jazz! 👍
@@drvee1983 1964 Fender Esquie
Love the Drums on this track!!!
Judging by that picture of McCartney with his Fender Esquire and George with his Casino I think that pic is from tracking of GETTING BETTER, especially looking at the chord shape Paul is doing!
ur not wrong
Ok another confusing one. i was always under the impression that the only guitar on Getting better was John and that george played Tambura.
You’re right! Could be.
@@victorarena23 Yes, actually that’s what Wikipedia says, but knowing Paul, maybe he just telled John how to play the guitar.
@@victorarena23There’s actually three guitars in Getting Better. Watch Sam Popkin’s cover.
Listened to EMI recordist Geoff Emerick talk about forbidden tape processing experiments with the machines themselves (outlaw engineering!). For instance placing junk on the rollers and heads to physically introduce inconsistencies in tracking...wobbles and pitch shifts, etc. These engineers supporting the lads mastered double tracking voices and flanging effects. A rare creative laboratory
Ringo is a Drum Composer more than just a drummer
На этом этапе Пит Бест был бы для них серьезным тормозом.
@@VictorAsnovvery agreeable.
Those few guitar riffs at the end in themselves are a sign of advanced alien intelligence
Done by Paul.
Strawberry Fields Forever is one of my favorite songs ever!! 🍓Firstly I love more of the psychedelic Beatles songs and Magical Mystery Tour is my favorite Beatles album, and secondly I don’t know what it is about the line “living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see” but it’s one of my favorite quotes!
The perfection of the four perfect musicians!!
That guitar @ 4:34 is one of my favorite parts of any song. That part in the full song is ear candy
Oh thanks for this i love Strawberry fields forever. Wondeful song once again.
A Masterpiece
in musical History
Everything in this is freaking perfect
One the greatest song creations.
Perfeito!!! Amo de paixão 💗
Thank you DLD ... amazing.
youre welcome
This song is pure magic.
Awesome! Totally awesome!
Great string arrangements by George Martin. Great song by John Lennon. Would have been great in an unplugged show had John lived that long.
At the heart of this song, despite its adornments and stature as a psychedelic classic, is a great melody by John and a really beautiful song. Great intro by Paul also on the mellotron.
A Master Piece
I love how you call hear when the vocals cut to a different take.
9:16 why i came
9:16 when i came
Lmao
actually 9:19
the orchestral arrangement is so intelligent and creative
I like how the cellos are slighty out of time at 10:14
Triplets are interesting when you play them with straight rhythms
Да, Триоли подкрашивают очень уместно
8:57 Favorite
That guitar solo feels like strawberry lemonade spilling out of a bottle
THANK YOU !
Recorded on November 24, 28, 29 and on December 8, 9, 15, 21 & 22, 1966. Over 26 takes were made, but the take 7 was selected as the "better" version as a single.
And don’t forget take 26, in which George Martin had the very important part of splicing to take 7. He had slightly sped up take 7 and slowed down take 26 by a lot in order for the pitch and tempo to correctly match up for the two.
I never understood why people say this the greatest song made by Lennon, now i can see the reason
AmaaaaaazZzzzziiinnnggg!!!
The Beatles’ individual songs were masterpieces.
Cool!
Que viaje este tema guacho.
thanks for the upload, sub earned
"The song is radically lyrically, too: impressionistic and syntactically perverse in places, the text alone resist confining itself to one specific subject, mood or experience. In fact, the lines enact nonspecificity: it contains conversational evasions such as 'that is, you can't, you know, tune in', 'always, no sometimes' and ' I mean, er, yes'-hesitations unprecedented in pop lyrics of the time." So, is this what you mean by being way before "its" time? If so, praise Johnny himself for being the master poet and lyricist that he is. There....and thank you Rob Young for your analysis that I just quoted for us regular folks.
Without a doubt my second favorite Lennon-McCartney, John led song! John was a true visionary and ahead of the music game! Just saying!
Its a stunning masterpiece they were all majorly talented guys but Lennon was freakin genious
Pure genius. George M. certainly was the 5th Beatle !
And to know our fab 4 never learned to read/write music is astonishing ! 😳
If you wanna hear the drums without the fade out and fade in, look up the Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7 And Edit Piece / Anthology 2 Version)
Los Beatles, unos adelantados para su tiempo. Por eso su música durará para siempre.
10:55 Paul's guitar solo
Is Paul
@@derekcastillo8549 Could it be his 1960 Les Paul?
not sure aboiut that one. I always thought it was the guitar at the very end that was paul. always thought that one was george.
@@victorarena23 The vibrato sounds like George to me.
Noooo!! Is McCartney playing the mini solo in the epiphone guitar
The podcast "Producing the Beatles" goes into depth about making this song. Super interesting
Too bad that John didn't like this...
but it's more sad that he never got to remake it like he wanted...
5:53 you can really hear the tape splice right before "going to" with vocals isolated
Very cool and trippy.......all I want now is some....Cran..berry...saaaaauuuuuce.......to go with some delicious buried Paul.
La Joya de los Beatles
The fab four genious now and forever....
... And better more The Beatles :
THE RUTLES :
" CRANBERRY FIELDS FOREVER."
( Dirk McQuickly - Ron Nasty. )
Lead Vocal : RON NASTY.
( G ) ( P ) 1967 / 11 / 24
Let it go in down because
going to
Cranberry Fields
almost is real.
But not you need is round about
Cranberry Fields Forever.
Be away I see the tree
stopped over there alone.
I sit near well her
for to can to think better.
Let it go in down because
going to
Cranberry Fields
almost is real.
But not you need is round about
Cranberry Fields Forever.
The simple imagination exercise
when you thinks : -- Oh ! Please !
You flutue in the innocence how
a child
that to make a discovery.
Let it go in down because
going to
Cranberry Fields
almost is real.
But not you need is round about
Cranberry Fields Forever.
I always think that Time
he could forget about me.
And what my life to would
can to change
to one way never imagined.
Let it go in down because
going to
Cranberry Fields
almost is real.
But not you need is round about
Cranberry Fields Forever.
Cranberry Fields Forever.
Cranberry Fields Forever.
( C ) All Rights Reserveds.
************************
And the lyricist Yoda was?!
The churning tribal drum beat ringo laid is amazing
Unforgettable strawberry fields
John played this song using an ELECTRIC guitar that was a Direct Input to the mix-board aka not Amp'd = Innovative as usual for this up and coming group
That famous edit just before "going to" is really obvious here. It worked beautifully in the released version,
This is a perfect blend of both psycho and delic.
I don’t care what anyone says Ringo is a top 3 drummer he’s like a human metronome and serves the songs he doesn’t have to be flashy like Moon, Peart, or Bonham he’s amazing the way he is
He's saying "...cran berry sauce...", not "I buried Paul" as Paul is dead conspiracists claimed. LOL so cool to hear all the different layers in these songs Amazing
Tacpd, Great observation! For 50 years I have believed it was "I buried Paul," but very clearly John is saying "cranberry sauce!"
Nothing even compares in music today. You'd think that all the digital breakthroughs would deliver. But sadly, nope.
FINE
god bless ringo
Wow
Musicalmente G Martin era 5 Beatle director
George's Swarmandal is awesome
You can get more austere samples from The Beatles Anthology however brief. In the next 20 years we'll have software to mimic each track eerily similar and separate from it's body.
I always thought that John's voice was slightly slowed down on Strawberry Fields. Conversely I thought that his voice was slightly speeded up on Lucy. After hearing this, now I'm not sure.
The first bit is normal, but the second section is a faster take slowed down
I believe it is
The "bass" in the bass/guitar section is a mellotron playing low. It even plays a chord at 4:50, definitely not a 4-string playing that. I think there may be a bass in the trumpets/cellos/overdub section but I'm not sure, there are so many damn instruments
the bass stop in cellos part
There's both a bass and a low Mellotron part yet the latter is only on the first chorus.
It sounds like the same drum sections "pasted" throughout the entire song.
10:13 beautiful
Thank you, very underappreciated it, also this song in general makes me feel like it's all gonna be alright
Je me souviens lorsque j'étais adolescent au milieu des 70's lorsque le prog-rock de Genesis, King Crimson, Bozzio avec Zappa etc dominait : le jeu de Ringo n'était pas pris au sérieux : il était caricaturé. Alors qu'aujourd'hui il y a consensus : c'est "LE" drummer qu'il fallait.
Lennon plays rhythm guitar on this.
100% correct
I still don't know how the beatles messed the isolates so badly like why when you listen to the instrumental like is the start so low volume!
I can barely cope. Jesus.
I cant believe no one has asked how you did this. I have a general idea (try combining the left and right channel of a 70s stereo Elton John song), but am curious how.
If I remember right I saw an 80's documentary of the Beatles where Martin had tympani drums used on this. Anyone able to elaborate more on this?
can you deconstruct take 7 of the song?🙏