Watching the recently released GET BACK DVD and seeing Paul apparently compose GET BACK on his bass guitar 'first' reinforces your question as well. I mean, PAPERBACK is such a Lennon-esque single-chord-like droning song, and it just goes on and on... how did Paul THINK of doing such a song? I don't know if he's ever done such a 'droning' song before - except it was from the Beatles' REVOLVER era where 'droning music' would take on a major significance.
When you hear these songs broken down this way it really reminds you that the Beatles were way more sophisticated than most people realized. Trying to pick up a guitar and just strum one of their songs was impossible. Mike is a genius, I wish he’d write a book.
Over 50 years since this song hit the airwaves & it still sounds magical. Only The Beatles could take a standard rock n roll song & make it sound like nothing else. Great work reproducing the harmonies too Mike. 👍
The first non- ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’-era Beatles song I ever heard. It blew my mind, and reinforced my decision to pick up the guitar. Beautiful video.
I'm from Brazil, a fan of your work, bringing knowledge for free to millions of people, I'm a Beatles fan and I thank you for every video, gratitude, keep up this magnificent work👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
John Lennon, as a guitarist, often gets overlooked in my opinion. Sure he was the imagine-piano guy, but as a guitarist he had that rare quality of knowing when to play and when not to play.
Hi Mike! I was 7 years old when I saw Help! in Argentina, I knew then that I was a musician. And I've had a lifetime of singing, playing the guitar, and composing. I see you there playing every part that I took out by ear and I am moved to tears, a big hug dear Mike Pachelli
When I first heard on Past Masters back in high school it blew my mind. People who say they don't like the Beatles are, with few exceptions, just full of themselves.
Thank you for the break down of the music and the history behind it. I had no idea that's how it was played especially with the over dubbing and the little tricks they used to be able to get a certain sound. Especially using a bass speaker as a microphone. I'm thoroughly impressed by it all. It's been 57 years since it was recorded and i am still learning something new and taking notice of the things i had never heard before. They were true artist in every sense of the word and now have discovered that they were magicians to create the magic of every note. After all these years of playing guitar, I'm still learning and making new discoveries of how complex their songs are. It never gets old and it stays fresh even more so as the years go by. Thank you again for the break down. You are so brilliant to do so.
7:32 they way you had the chart follow you was a perfect way to show that. I can just look at that and a few hours from now i could still play that without even touching a guitar till then. Awesome ! I remember someone on you tube having a overhead camera to show their hand an don't know why more channels do that but, Your way is the best i've seen..especially how it was timed with your playing! Great content per usual Mike !
I'm old enough to have been around when this was released and bought the single. I was absolutely floored when I heard it on the radio. It was a Beatles R&R punch in the face and the guitars sounded gigantic. This was another landmark for the Beatles imho, being yet another redefining of pop rock itself. The opening lick, which you break down nicely here, is so beautifully powerful in it's simplicity. Funny, even as a youngster at 13 years of age I did question how the Beatles could sing all those parts live lol!
Although I've never met Mike in person, I like him a lot more than just about everyone I do know - he's just so affable. If I had a fraction of his talent, I might be likeable too....
Mike this is simply SUPERB! Paperback Writer&esp Rain were the heaviest sounds of their day mainstream. P.s..I started my guitar life with a plastic ukulele with pictures of fab four on it. By accident found 'open tuning ..the rest is my history..still playing at 74&yes the Beatles are in there..If I Fell..I Will..8Days a week.. Thanks a million for your excellent site.👍👍youre the Beatles guy bar none!
WOW !!! Fabulous job.!Thanks loads for revealing all the 'secrets" of this song on my bucket list!! My gear includes a '68 Gibson ES330, a '65 Fender Princeton, a VOX AC30 and a Gretsch Electromatic Jet. (Should be no problem creating the right sounds for my classic rock band.)
The first song of the Beatles in my memory, when I was a 5 years old boy in 1966, on french radio , my mother prepared my breakfast before going to nursey school! I said to myself, who are those guys with so wonderful music! 😳
Can't believe those four young dudes came up with this and many other wonderful songs. Amazing, just amazing! And your remake of the song sounds crazy fantastic, Mike!
That was great Mike! It’s fascinating how you break these songs down and put it all together at the end. Love going back to the Beatles versions and listening to the various parts!
Although every one of your soundalikes are great, this one is my favorite! I played drums back in the 60s and 70s but I watch every one of your lessons. Fantastic job Mike!
Awesome! This lesson illustrate that "Perfection is made of details and perfection is not a detail (thanks Leonardo) and the Beatles were master of "keep it simple buddy". Mike your videos are a treasure. Keep on rockin'. Greetings from a neighbor (I live west Marseille on the Côte Bleue).
Brilliant. I remember hearing this and Rain back to back sitting by the public pool when I was 13 and being transformed. I’m finally going to learn to play it lol
I distinctly remember when this was released. It sounded so simple but full. The Beatles could “polish” a tune to perfection. I had an old Lyle guitar, a used bass amp I was playing through, and now I know how sophisticated a production it was. No wonder I couldn’t get the riff (x 5) worked out! All my Fender gear came later. Thanks so much Mike!
I agree by disagreeing. :) The recording has some wonderfully 'slopiness' in it that is sorely lacking in much pop music. Steely Dan is all well and good, and I love their music but rock music needs both inventiveness and sloppiness.
Beatles got me into playing guitar when I was a kid in grammar school in the 60's. I'd play Paperback Writer and then Rain over and over because I was so fascinated by how unbelievably ELECTRIFIED the guitars sounded if you get what I'm saying. The Beatles guitar sound overall was so electric, like how their chord stabs in some songs sounded like clanging metal to me, like in You Won't See, The Word, Me for example. Rubber Soul is my favorite.... US version... I've Just Seen a Face to Run For Your Life, and I'm Looking Through You WITH the false start. It must have that false start for me, lol.
SUPERB lesson !! .... I love the way you cover the intricacies ! These guys (the Beatles) were genius at song construction. ..and you at explanation ... and performance
I remember reading John Lennon dismissing this as “son of daytripper” . I have neVer been able to nail it properly because of the 5 riffs which I think Paul possibly did accidentally. It is a great song though and you have done a first rate job of teaching it.
You are doing amazing job, Mike. Tip hat. Giving us not only the chors or tabs, but the whole background of particular song is very important part of your job.
Excellent music revival. I like also the way you organise the screens of the video for the different parts. Every guitar and voice part can be followed perfectly and helps to redo it on our own. Thanks for such, All the best, knarf from France
Great job. Mike. This was always one of my favorite Beatles songs! A fun anecdote for you, Beatles' fan that you are. I was in junior high when the Beatles first broke into the American market. We all loved them, of course. But our 8th grade science teacher hated them. Always running them down. Even put a question on the final exam, "Will the Beatles still be popular in a year." Jerk that he was, if you answered YES you got it wrong! Now it's 56 years later and they are still popular! Take that, Mr. Witledge!
My GCE music teacher was an expert at taking the joy out of music. Our Mr Smith outright dismissed the Beatles as inconsequential louts singing yeah yeah yeah copying American songs. hmmmm. I hated the music classes but not music.
Wow, Mike. You nailed those vocals. The very high background vocal on the last verse is, well, VERY high. Nice job. While the guitar parts are pretty easy, the vocal parts are a little more tricky.
Charmed. Thanks man, I fell in love with this song WAY late in life. Highly on account of Eric Johnson frankly. Their last song I reckon. Killer rock guitar! Also, agree w the guy below, I'd buy your book too.
Helmut - Aww - you're too kind. Truth-be-told, I do a ton of research beforehand, refer to my notes whilst videotaping and then forget everything I said the very next day! lol. Old age is screwing with me memory.
Mike, great video as usual. You managed to dial in the tones perfectly as you always do. I'd bet there's a bunch of guys like me who'd love to have you explain how to get those tones. Regardless of which period the songs come from, you always nail the the sound. Boy does that help everything sound authentic! Great video!
Frères Jacques ??? gosh; i have really listened to this and other beatles recordings (original ones and bootlegs) zillions of times and had not noticed this.. So thanks once again for this very instructive videos
66'. Wow, I was 8 years old. I have a Aunt Eileen who is 10 years older than me . Was that year she headed off to Baylor U. From NY to go to college. And she gave me some of her vinyls. My first good Guitar was A used Gibson SG I bought at " We buy guitars". In NYC . On 48st. I believe. Great cover Mike! Nice Epiphone.
Serious question, Mike: how the heck did the Beatles manage to work out all those songs without seeing ANY of your videos? Freaking geniuses.
It’s like me asking you how you are still alive without you knowing how your heart and lungs intrinsically work
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Good one!
Watching the recently released GET BACK DVD and seeing Paul apparently compose GET BACK on his bass guitar 'first' reinforces your question as well. I mean, PAPERBACK is such a Lennon-esque single-chord-like droning song, and it just goes on and on... how did Paul THINK of doing such a song? I don't know if he's ever done such a 'droning' song before - except it was from the Beatles' REVOLVER era where 'droning music' would take on a major significance.
And even more incredible when you realise there's only 1 full take of the backing track and that's the record...
When you hear these songs broken down this way it really reminds you that the Beatles were way more sophisticated than most people realized. Trying to pick up a guitar and just strum one of their songs was impossible. Mike is a genius, I wish he’d write a book.
Over 50 years since this song hit the airwaves & it still sounds magical. Only The Beatles could take a standard rock n roll song & make it sound like nothing else. Great work reproducing the harmonies too Mike. 👍
Except the title would be
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The first non- ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’-era Beatles song I ever heard.
It blew my mind, and reinforced my decision to pick up the guitar.
Beautiful video.
I'm from Brazil, a fan of your work, bringing knowledge for free to millions of people, I'm a Beatles fan and I thank you for every video, gratitude, keep up this magnificent work👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
John Lennon, as a guitarist, often gets overlooked in my opinion. Sure he was the imagine-piano guy, but as a guitarist he had that rare quality of knowing when to play and when not to play.
mp - ABSOLUTELY! I love it when somebody (like you) realizes the fact that part of Lennon's genius was knowing when to lay out!!
@@MPfrance The same can be said about each of the Beatles!
@@MPfrance Like they say, Less is better 🚶🏿♂🚶🏿♂🚶🏿♂🚶🏿♂🎸
"like only the Beatlea could"...such a driving, full sounding song....and is that simple? Beatles genius again at work!
The simplicity of Lennon’s part is not so simple. The timing is everything.
That was superb! I've been playing guitar for 40 years and still think this is the heaviest guitar riff ever written/recorded 🤘
the FIRST tabs I've ever seen on the Paperback riff. THANK YOU!
Happy to help!
Mike is the best...in dissecting each of The Beatles' songs for people to enjoy the song making process.🙏
Hi Mike! I was 7 years old when I saw Help! in Argentina, I knew then that I was a musician. And I've had a lifetime of singing, playing the guitar, and composing. I see you there playing every part that I took out by ear and I am moved to tears, a big hug dear Mike Pachelli
You are the best teaching the beatles Michael!!!
When I first heard on Past Masters back in high school it blew my mind. People who say they don't like the Beatles are, with few exceptions, just full of themselves.
Thank you for the break down of the music and the history behind it. I had no idea that's how it was played especially with the over dubbing and the little tricks they used to be able to get a certain sound. Especially using a bass speaker as a microphone. I'm thoroughly impressed by it all. It's been 57 years since it was recorded and i am still learning something new and taking notice of the things i had never heard before. They were true artist in every sense of the word and now have discovered that they were magicians to create the magic of every note. After all these years of playing guitar, I'm still learning and making new discoveries of how complex their songs are. It never gets old and it stays fresh even more so as the years go by. Thank you again for the break down. You are so brilliant to do so.
Impressive tutorial. No silliness, just professional instruction. Such good work.
It gave me the shivers when you summed it up at the end of the video! Fantastic!! Thanks Mike 👍👍👍👍
7:32 they way you had the chart follow you was a perfect way to show that. I can just look at that and a few hours from now i could still play that without even touching a guitar till then. Awesome ! I remember someone on you tube having a overhead camera to show their hand an don't know why more channels do that but, Your way is the best i've seen..especially how it was timed with your playing! Great content per usual Mike !
I'm old enough to have been around when this was released and bought the single. I was absolutely floored when I heard it on the radio. It was a Beatles R&R punch in the face and the guitars sounded gigantic. This was another landmark for the Beatles imho, being yet another redefining of pop rock itself. The opening lick, which you break down nicely here, is so beautifully powerful in it's simplicity. Funny, even as a youngster at 13 years of age I did question how the Beatles could sing all those parts live lol!
My favourite Beatles song amid so many, which goes to prove that simplicity can bring beauty.
The vocals are not simple at all. lol
There's a lot going on there along with the timing of them.
Although I've never met Mike in person, I like him a lot more than just about everyone I do know - he's just so affable. If I had a fraction of his talent, I might be likeable too....
Mike is awesome. I have never met him in person Burt I sold him a guitar (his 325 Ric) and WYSIWYG! I love his passion.
I simply l-o-v-e- your lessons, and this one is no exception. Keep explaining us how to play and sing!
Thank you! Will do!
Great Pachelli, congratulation for that kind of magic you make sounding like The B!
Miguel Rivera, from Sonora, México.
The Pachelli twins awesome on backup vocals as usual. You guys should start a band!
Bliggick - LOL - we've been in dozens of bands. But I'm not thrilled about touring anymore. It's too much hassle...
@@MPfrance Because you can't hear yourself over the girls screaming? :)
Mike. For live shows you play rhythm and have the Pachelli Brothers projected 3D Hologram.
Mike this is simply SUPERB! Paperback Writer&esp Rain were the heaviest sounds of their day mainstream.
P.s..I started my guitar life with a plastic ukulele with pictures of fab four on it.
By accident found 'open tuning ..the rest is my history..still playing at 74&yes the Beatles are in there..If I Fell..I Will..8Days a week..
Thanks a million for your excellent site.👍👍youre the Beatles guy bar none!
Ps.I've learned how to tune the 6string by now..😊
WOW !!! Fabulous job.!Thanks loads for revealing all the 'secrets" of this song on my bucket list!! My gear includes a '68 Gibson ES330, a '65 Fender Princeton, a VOX AC30 and a Gretsch Electromatic Jet. (Should be no problem creating the right sounds for my classic rock band.)
Rock on!
Theses videos are very informative. Thanks a lot, keep it up.
Glad you like them!
That was absolutely perfect…well done Mike!! One of my favs.
love the authenticity of the guitars you use, especially the Hofner and the Rick. bass
The first song of the Beatles in my memory, when I was a 5 years old boy in 1966, on french radio , my mother prepared my breakfast before going to nursey school! I said to myself, who are those guys with so wonderful music! 😳
Can't believe those four young dudes came up with this and many other wonderful songs. Amazing, just amazing! And your remake of the song sounds crazy fantastic, Mike!
That was great Mike! It’s fascinating how you break these songs down and put it all together at the end. Love going back to the Beatles versions and listening to the various parts!
My pleasure!
I'm in awe baby where where You back when? Instructions extrodimar
@@MPfrance great job Sir kindly great stuff 👍 thanks
Although every one of your soundalikes are great, this one is my favorite! I played drums back in the 60s and 70s but I watch every one of your lessons. Fantastic job Mike!
Thank you so much Mike..
I have tremendously enjoyed your video of PAPERBACK WRITER.....🙏
Awesome! This lesson illustrate that "Perfection is made of details and perfection is not a detail (thanks Leonardo) and the Beatles were master of "keep it simple buddy". Mike your videos are a treasure. Keep on rockin'. Greetings from a neighbor (I live west Marseille on the Côte Bleue).
This is absolutely amazing. How do you know everything with a lot of detail!?!?! That’s incredible
Brilliant. I remember hearing this and Rain back to back sitting by the public pool when I was 13 and being transformed. I’m finally going to learn to play it lol
I distinctly remember when this was released. It sounded so simple but full. The Beatles could “polish” a tune to perfection. I had an old Lyle guitar, a used bass amp I was playing through, and now I know how sophisticated a production it was. No wonder I couldn’t get the riff (x 5) worked out! All my Fender gear came later. Thanks so much Mike!
MeArkitek - You are most welcome and yeah - those lads were amazing on a TWO chord song!!
I agree by disagreeing. :)
The recording has some wonderfully 'slopiness' in it that is sorely lacking in much pop music. Steely Dan is all well and good, and I love their music but rock music needs both inventiveness and sloppiness.
Ridiculously great Mike!! Incidentally when I was a young lad in England I always thought they were singing Paperbag Writer lol
You're the best Mike. Love your breakdown and the basics to understand and rock some Beatle magic !
Beatles got me into playing guitar when I was a kid in grammar school in the 60's. I'd play Paperback Writer and then Rain over and over because I was so fascinated by how unbelievably ELECTRIFIED the guitars sounded if you get what I'm saying. The Beatles guitar sound overall was so electric, like how their chord stabs in some songs sounded like clanging metal to me, like in You Won't See, The Word, Me for example. Rubber Soul is my favorite.... US version... I've Just Seen a Face to Run For Your Life, and I'm Looking Through You WITH the false start. It must have that false start for me, lol.
It's always a great day when I see you posted a new video. Thanks for the great lessons, and thanks for making me feel like I can be a Beatle.
Excellent as always. Better than even Beatle tribute bands could ever do. Regards from Bangkok.
Wow, thank you!
Mike, Amazing! What a great job with the sound alike.
Thank you kindly!
SUPERB lesson !! .... I love the way you cover the intricacies ! These guys (the Beatles) were genius at song construction. ..and you at explanation ... and performance
Classic. And always good to see and hear you, Mike. Amazing as always.
Glad you enjoyed it!
One of my all time favorites!
Simply Great!
I remember reading John Lennon dismissing this as “son of daytripper” . I have neVer been able to nail it properly because of the 5 riffs which I think Paul possibly did accidentally. It is a great song though and you have done a first rate job of teaching it.
i love when john dismisses beatles songs. so john
Dude. That was seriously cool at the end. Amazing how much production went into such a catchy tune.
You are doing amazing job, Mike. Tip hat.
Giving us not only the chors or tabs, but the whole background of particular song is very important part of your job.
Excellent music revival. I like also the way you organise the screens of the video for the different parts. Every guitar and voice part can be followed perfectly and helps to redo it on our own.
Thanks for such,
All the best,
knarf from France
Killer Mike. And I love how you put it all together at the end. Really great. And the backstory!
I’m new to the channel and man,love that u have all the little details that mean so much in all these songs! Great job!! Keep killin it!!
Definitely a top 5 Beatles song for me. Rocks so perfectly.
I love your enthusiasm it's very motivating and enjoyable thank you for an excellent breakdown of the track
Listening to this song for the first time in mono in 2009 was a true revelation.
Great job. Mike. This was always one of my favorite Beatles songs! A fun anecdote for you, Beatles' fan that you are. I was in junior high when the Beatles first broke into the American market. We all loved them, of course. But our 8th grade science teacher hated them. Always running them down. Even put a question on the final exam, "Will the Beatles still be popular in a year." Jerk that he was, if you answered YES you got it wrong! Now it's 56 years later and they are still popular! Take that, Mr. Witledge!
What a mean teacher!! I bet he likes the Beatles now tho 😂
My GCE music teacher was an expert at taking the joy out of music. Our Mr Smith outright dismissed the Beatles as inconsequential louts singing yeah yeah yeah copying American songs. hmmmm. I hated the music classes but not music.
Amazing. Spot on! I once held that orange Gretsch when it was being photographed for the Hard Rock before put on display.
so much fun , grinin whole the way through, thx...they were just beastly, every instrument and every voice just screamin
Mike, you have quite an ear. Who else would tell us Paul played that part so many different ways.
great as always Mike!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always a joy to watch Mike
Alan - I appreciate that!!
Fantastic rendition, Mike, of a fantastic Beatles song!
Love your enthusiasm Mike! The Beatles cant do that to all of us.
What a joy to find this!
Fantastic as always Mike. Real genius of McCartney in this song
Wow, Mike. You nailed those vocals. The very high background vocal on the last verse is, well, VERY high. Nice job. While the guitar parts are pretty easy, the vocal parts are a little more tricky.
Loved this song when I first heard it back in the 60's such a clever lyric. Thanks for the insights Mike.
Greetings from up the coast in Nice! Another brilliant lesson. Thanks!
Good job Mike! I thought I was the only Beatles lunatic. Glad to see I'm in good company. I will take all the Beatles CD's to my pine box!
Appreciate the incredible effort you put into this - - thanks!!
Thank you for existing, Mike Pachelli!
thank you for this one! The rythm part is almost impossible to figure out. thank you alot
Right…what was it, on the two again?
Really cool rendition of Paperback Writer. Good job!!
Great job Mike.
Honestly I’m so happy you are doing these videos, they’ve made life better, thank you!
Love your channel, you have real gift and your love and technical knowledge really makes watching your videos enjoyable. Great job!
Mind-boggling, Mike!!
One of the things I love the most in this song is the "cantus firmus" setting in with the old Frère Jacques rhyme. Just the feather on the hat...
And , they did it all before age 30 ! The year they first came out even the military
was singin' Yeah , Yeah , Yeah ! Peace & Love !
Totally fantastic. I have always wondered how that riff went
Charmed. Thanks man, I fell in love with this song WAY late in life. Highly on account of Eric Johnson frankly. Their last song I reckon. Killer rock guitar!
Also, agree w the guy below, I'd buy your book too.
Amazing depth of knowledge here! You really help me appreciate the Beatles. Thanks Mike.
You are an amazing musician Mike! I am so envious!!!!
Nice one Mike👍 thanks for a great lesson.
Looking forward to “Get back” 3-part Beatles documentary in November!!!!!😀
Rock on!
Another great lesson. Thank you very much, Mike.
Keep up that good job!
Thanks, will do!
you are multi talented. WOW
Fantastic.... My Compliments Sit !!!!! Many have tried and Many have failed !!!
Macca,,, guitar AND bass.
Genius.
This is the BEST-thank you!!!
Unbelievable what Mike knows about the Beatles! If Paul should forget something he can ask Mike!
Helmut - Aww - you're too kind. Truth-be-told, I do a ton of research beforehand, refer to my notes whilst videotaping and then forget everything I said the very next day! lol. Old age is screwing with me memory.
Mike, great video as usual. You managed to dial in the tones perfectly as you always do. I'd bet there's a bunch of guys like me who'd love to have you explain how to get those tones. Regardless of which period the songs come from, you always nail the the sound. Boy does that help everything sound authentic! Great video!
Thanks 👍
Another wonderful video Mike. You nailed it as you always do. Thank you so much.
That Casino sound is amazing!!
Chapi - she rattles a lot but still makes some nifty noiZe!
John Lennon is so overlooked as a great guitarist.
Great video Mike! In 30 minutes I can play what I’ve been wishing to play for FIFTY FIVE YEARS!
Rock on!
Nice vid Mike! You provided a lot of historical information on this sound I've never heard.
Man you are freakin amazing Mike! Thanks so much! ..,and thanks for the history of songs iin the beginning. Love it!God Bless, Mario
Glad you like them!
The bass is the star of the show in this song.
Mike you are just a wealth of fantastic information, thanks for yet another awesome video my friend
I appreciate that!
Frères Jacques ??? gosh; i have really listened to this and other beatles recordings (original ones and bootlegs) zillions of times and had not noticed this.. So thanks once again for this very instructive videos
Brilliant 👏 pure Gold
66'. Wow, I was 8 years old. I have a Aunt Eileen who is 10 years older than me . Was that year she headed off to Baylor U. From NY to go to college. And she gave me some of her vinyls. My first good Guitar was A used Gibson SG I bought at " We buy guitars". In NYC . On 48st. I believe. Great cover Mike! Nice Epiphone.