The second half of the song is John singing through a Leslie speaker. A Leslie speaker is a speaker that spins inside its speaker box. Normally they are attached to a Hammond organ. They had to break into the speaker and attach a microphone. Sound effects that you can make today with a touch of a button were non-existent when the Beatles created this recordings. Their inventiveness (and George Martin’s) was insane.
Boy did you ever pick a monster of a song here, even for the Beatles! This song was so revolutionary, nothing like this song before or since! Glad you are taking the journey; I am totally here for this!
Electric guitars were invented in the 1930's, 30 plus years before this song came out. The Beatles recorded one and played it backwards for this recording. There's a lot going on in this song.
Drums: Compressed drums with a non-standard pattern by Ringo Starr Vocals: Processed vocals through a Leslie speaker cabinet and automatic double tracking Guitar: Reverse guitar Cymbals: Reverse cymbals Tape loops: Mixed in and out of the song Bass: McCartney's bass maintains a constant ostinato in C, despite implied chord changes in the verses and at the end of the song Other instruments: Sitar and tambura drone, and one of the first uses of a flanging effect on an instrument
Ringos' Drum pattern on this song is my favorite instrument. The genius they did in the studio is awesome. Johns vocals are elongated and makes it even more unique. Great example of Psychedelic Rock.The Beatles Rule 🔥🔥🔥
Pre-cassette: this is reel to reel tape, the main recording workhorse of the 1960's when the Beatles were recording mainly at EMI/Abbey Road studios in London.
This song would sound right at home on one of Radiohead's experimental albums from the 2000s. It isn't a generation ahead of its time - it's TWO generations ahead.
Radiohead is insanely overrated. They are decent, but music get off on how innovative they are, it’s like they don’t even care about the vibe or sound or flow of the songs, most of which are boring
@@Pixiesforever7 Yeah, there are cool techniques they use and cool sounds etc. That doesn’t make a band iconic. It makes them a pretty good band that is interesting to music nerd. You want to know the top 3 albums according to best ever albums? 1) Ok Computer 2) Dark side of the moon 3) Sgt pepper. Clearly overrated
Yes, there are electric guitars-including backward electric lead guitars. Paul made a tape of himself laughing, cut the tape into pieces and had it re-assembled and played back super fast so it sounds like "seagulls" which are being panned left to right and faded in and out of the track. Also, at the end, John's voice is processed using Leslie rotating speakers, normally used for organs, as microphones to give that crazy distant sound to his voice.
Not strings on the visualizer. Of course, this was before your time. Those are reel to reel tape recorders. They are literally representing the technical medium the Beatles were using to record this song, along with some other "trippy" visuals.
This music became popular about 30 years later. Just the Beatles inventing genres of music as they did. Greatest band ever by a long long way. No Celo's on this one. Sitars a Meltron, Bass, Drums and Tape Loops and Electric Guitar played backwards.
the sound that sounds like seagulls is actually a recording of paul laughing sped up... the song is full of tape loops, hence the visuals in the vid i assume
"I appreciate the freshness and the new sound" said in 2024 for a song from 1966 - 58 years after its release, confirms The Beatles are the greatest of all times. ( I already knew that) 😁
Oh yes, there were definitely electric guitars back then, and before that time. Some of the sounds that may throw you off in this song: the electric guitar lead, recorded on analogue reel to reel, is put in backwards. So all of the guitar solos in this song are backwards. Then what sounds like "seagulls" are actually tape recordings by Paul McCartney, this time with the tape being cut in limitless random pieces and then spliced together and played back, giving that weird sound effect. Finally, if you watch the Beatles Anthology, recorded in 1995, with Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, along with their producer George Martin. John had been murdered outside of his and Yoko's apartment building in December 1980, so he was not at this session. In the session, George Martin is doing the playback on this song, isolating the different recorded tracks on playback. When Ringo heard the playback, he stated the drumming style that he was performing on this track as a "rhumba".
To my understanding, a cello is like a big bass violin. It has a lower register than a vioin. Don't think there are either on this track, but if I'm wrong I'm happy to be corrected.
Um, yes, there were electric guitars in 1966……. and for quite a long time before that. Um. What’s more interesting is this song was recorded about three years after She Loves You.
Electric guitars have been around since the thirties... But these guitars are recorded backwards {cello, chirping,} BTW... this song references the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Peace on earth.
I get really excited when people react to this song! This is such a landmark song in music history.
I love watching young people react to this track because their minds are completely blown! Enjoy!
The second half of the song is John singing through a Leslie speaker. A Leslie speaker is a speaker that spins inside its speaker box. Normally they are attached to a Hammond organ. They had to break into the speaker and attach a microphone. Sound effects that you can make today with a touch of a button were non-existent when the Beatles created this recordings. Their inventiveness (and George Martin’s) was insane.
Boy did you ever pick a monster of a song here, even for the Beatles! This song was so revolutionary, nothing like this song before or since! Glad you are taking the journey; I am totally here for this!
Electric guitars were invented in the 1930's, 30 plus years before this song came out. The Beatles recorded one and played it backwards for this recording. There's a lot going on in this song.
Drums: Compressed drums with a non-standard pattern by Ringo Starr
Vocals: Processed vocals through a Leslie speaker cabinet and automatic double tracking
Guitar: Reverse guitar
Cymbals: Reverse cymbals
Tape loops: Mixed in and out of the song
Bass: McCartney's bass maintains a constant ostinato in C, despite implied chord changes in the verses and at the end of the song
Other instruments: Sitar and tambura drone, and one of the first uses of a flanging effect on an instrument
Ringos' Drum pattern on this song is my favorite instrument. The genius they did in the studio is awesome. Johns vocals are elongated and makes it even more unique. Great example of Psychedelic Rock.The Beatles Rule 🔥🔥🔥
Pre-cassette: this is reel to reel tape, the main recording workhorse of the 1960's when the Beatles were recording mainly at EMI/Abbey Road studios in London.
The Beatles didn't exist within a genre, they created them. This music would become popular about 30 years after the Beatles invented it.
I weep for the state of education in this country.
This song would sound right at home on one of Radiohead's experimental albums from the 2000s. It isn't a generation ahead of its time - it's TWO generations ahead.
Radiohead is insanely overrated. They are decent, but music get off on how innovative they are, it’s like they don’t even care about the vibe or sound or flow of the songs, most of which are boring
@@futurereflections4097No way. They are the Kings of building to the crescendo
@@Pixiesforever7 Yeah, there are cool techniques they use and cool sounds etc. That doesn’t make a band iconic. It makes them a pretty good band that is interesting to music nerd. You want to know the top 3 albums according to best ever albums? 1) Ok Computer 2) Dark side of the moon 3) Sgt pepper.
Clearly overrated
@@Pixiesforever7”building to the crescendo”. Smh. “Crescendo” means to gradually get louder.
@@matthewbergey7153 Crescendo is also a noun meaning "the loudest point"
Yes, there are electric guitars-including backward electric lead guitars. Paul made a tape of himself laughing, cut the tape into pieces and had it re-assembled and played back super fast so it sounds like "seagulls" which are being panned left to right and faded in and out of the track. Also, at the end, John's voice is processed using Leslie rotating speakers, normally used for organs, as microphones to give that crazy distant sound to his voice.
One of the first songs to incorporate sampling
Not strings on the visualizer. Of course, this was before your time. Those are reel to reel tape recorders. They are literally representing the technical medium the Beatles were using to record this song, along with some other "trippy" visuals.
This music became popular about 30 years later. Just the Beatles inventing genres of music as they did. Greatest band ever by a long long way. No Celo's on this one. Sitars a Meltron, Bass, Drums and Tape Loops and Electric Guitar played backwards.
the sound that sounds like seagulls is actually a recording of paul laughing sped up... the song is full of tape loops, hence the visuals in the vid i assume
"I appreciate the freshness and the new sound" said in 2024 for a song from 1966 - 58 years after its release, confirms The Beatles are the greatest of all times. ( I already knew that) 😁
"I'll play the game existance to the end" sounds like a very good plan to me
Oh yes, there were definitely electric guitars back then, and before that time. Some of the sounds that may throw you off in this song: the electric guitar lead, recorded on analogue reel to reel, is put in backwards. So all of the guitar solos in this song are backwards.
Then what sounds like "seagulls" are actually tape recordings by Paul McCartney, this time with the tape being cut in limitless random pieces and then spliced together and played back, giving that weird sound effect.
Finally, if you watch the Beatles Anthology, recorded in 1995, with Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, along with their producer George Martin. John had been murdered outside of his and Yoko's apartment building in December 1980, so he was not at this session.
In the session, George Martin is doing the playback on this song, isolating the different recorded tracks on playback. When Ringo heard the playback, he stated the drumming style that he was performing on this track as a "rhumba".
To my understanding, a cello is like a big bass violin. It has a lower register than a vioin. Don't think there are either on this track, but if I'm wrong I'm happy to be corrected.
What do you think the Beatles were from, the stone age. There were electric guitars 40 years before this,
Electric Guitar was invented in the 1930/40s Tape loops give the weird.
Not violins. . .Paul's tape loops.
Um, yes, there were electric guitars in 1966……. and for quite a long time before that. Um. What’s more interesting is this song was recorded about three years after She Loves You.
Electric guitars have been around since the thirties...
But these guitars are recorded backwards {cello, chirping,}
BTW... this song references the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Peace on earth.
More beatles ps
Mind blowing ignorance
Harsh
Why don't you just keep stopping it every few seconds to make a banal observation.
Oh, you did.