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That is an amazing piece of detective work right there, that you've done, Galeazzo! Going down the rabbit hole of questioning George's guitar attack on Help: Up to the point where researching the recording technique led you down the path of a 'casual' bit of dialogue between the band and the producer which, in turn, led to your resolving how to perfectly recreate the tone...some journey. Wow.
Thank you sir! That was fascinating. Its crazy to think how much work goes into a recording. The stuff we might take for granted now took a lot of work back then. Great stuff...❤✌️🎸
Thanks, Galeazzo. Great job in figuring out George played the immortal, arpegiated intro. to 'Help!' on a Strat. But, I am surprised that you had not previously heard or read that George recorded the 'Help!' intro. at a lower speed - it is common knowledge, and mentioned in several books. I think I first suspected that in the 1980s. I am in awe of George (and occasionally Paul and John) for being able to hear a new song, and come up with such devastatingly brilliant intros., riffs, fills, solos and licks.
I would add if you watch the Beatles performing Help on the Ed Sullivan show, you can see John tapping the beat for George during his descending guitar lick. As musical artists the Beatles were amazing. But also they had a truly outstanding producer and classically trained musician with George Martin. The engineers and technical staff were creative and top notch. I like to think the planets were in alignment for all this to happen and we were lucky to witness it. Good Stuff!
Fantastic insight into the recording of Help!... Definitely they used the technique of slowing down the tape very early on, on the solo of A Hard Day's Night and then on In My Life....Absolutely fascinating !!
Yes, I specifically remember Paul mentioning, I think it was in one of the Rick Rubin interviews, that George's solo with the triplets on 'A Hard Day's Night' was recorded at half speed and a lower pitch and then the tape sped up to achieve the desired tempo and pitch. I'd always been frustrated trying to pull off the feel of that lick even though the notes seem relatively straightforward...when Paul mentioned that the light went on.
You Cracked the NUT!!! I always knew something was up with that riff. Ironic that the other Fab Movie Song Title "A HArd DaYs NiGhT" has vari-speed on the Guitar Riff.
Most interesting. It does also make me wonder as a former amateur musician (bass), how George was not acknowledged by the other two for his contributions on lead guitar. I mean if they had the basic song and then brought it to the recording studio and it was then hewn and polished to their requirements and satisfaction, I think that it is quite unlikely that neither John or Paul had much idea about what they really wanted for the lead at the time until they got a few very important prompts from George. For this reason alone, there should have been a lot of songs credited to Lennon/McCartney/Harrison.
Palm muting “wasn’t known at the time”????!!! What? Nobody in the history of the world has ever played a guitar for more than five minutes without naturally and organically discovering the benefits of palm-muting, without anyone having to “discover” it or teach it to anyone else. Its impossible not to do it by accident, unless you are very consciously trying not to, and impossible not to notice that it sounds good when you do. It’s just an inherent part of playing the instrument. I think when people say this they’re misconstruing the fact that a particular style of hard-rock guitar that involves low power chords played with heavy muting - that “chug, chug” sound you associate with those later styles of music - was yet to become popular, and extrapolating from that that it never occurred to any guitarist to gently rest the edge of their hand on the strings to get crisper, more staccato arpeggios. Frankly, the idea of doing a full rock show with your hand hovering awkwardly above the strings, rather than relaxing on top of them and raising only when you particularly want a particular string or strings to ring out (which is what guitarists are doing instinctively, whether they realize it or not) sounds like hell on earth. Just pure laziness alone will lead any guitarist to naturally discover palm-muting.
Ha-ha! I swear on a stack of bibles that I have been working on this riff over the last couple of days and I just can't seem to get the hang of it. Now I know why! Thank you!!
Spot on! Except the transcription (@0:05) should read... GM: ...would it be safer to overdub that one on? GH: Don't think so no, 'cause it's just that it's so fast
This was beyond tutoring... you had become a scholar in Beatles music (a prominent one by all means) 😊. Now you should ask Paul McCartney, see if he remembers...
WOW ! That was outstanding detective work and I am completely blown away not only by your knowledge of music but you can build the sound to specs also. BRAVO, BRAVO!
Very interesting. Great detective work there! Didn’t George Harrison play the guitar solo and George Martin play the piano solo on Hard Days Night at half speed? Which of course is 1964.
Galeazzo, this is the type of content I love! You disproved an age-old misconception with evidence and facts. I myself have NEVER been able to play this riff like the record at normal speed. I always had a hunch it was manipulated somehow - I'm just glad I can finally stop trying! 😉
One thought I have about George switching to the strat…I bet that he switched to the strat because he didn’t want to retune the Gretsch that he’d use on a different song that day.
Wow, job well done.! I cannot believe how close your guitar intro is to George. It’s remarkable. Usually when people say oh I got it close you listen to it. It’s disappointing. No, you’ve got it dead on.
I just wish George would use the Strat on stage at the time, even if during mimed TV (or movie) performances. Same with Paul and the Rick 4003. Sure, All You Need Is Love and I Am The Walrus, but it would've been nice to show for filming of other songs for clues to the public.
No Proof but i bet Brian Epstein their Manager/who they trusted, Wanted their guitars to be the Darker Colors, and them in Matching outfits. Once they got Popular they wanted to stay that way. And most stuff was in black and White. Glad they Filmed Shea 65 in Color. The 2 strats were both SONIC BLUE, a real Light color of course. Just a Possibility.
Some very interesting detective work here, and the studio chatter does seem to fit with the idea that the tape speed was changed. And the tone is a very good match. Didn't George use this recording speed trick on the Hard Day's Night solo too?
That was not the varispeed control. That was just playing the tape machine at the half speed. 7.5 inches per second instead of 15 ips. No external device was needed to do that. Frudua is pointing out that button on Studer J-37 machine in the video.
This is quite the interesting revelation you've made. I've found in my research as well that basically anything was possible as far as their recordings are concerned. They were always doing things differently to fit the song.
All Beatles fans who got a copy of the bootleg "Ultra Rare Trax Volume 3 & 4" when it first came out (on Beeb Transcription Records - TR 2190 S) have known since 1988 that George's descending riff in "Help!" was a varispeed overdub. Simply, we didn't have vlogs to share this information around. Nice work on this video. But, btw, it also must be said that George Martin recorded at half speed to overdub his piano solo onto "In My Life" -- another example of The Beatles using varispeed before "Rain." Listen here to George Martin's isolated original "In My Life" piano solo at the speed George Martin played it: ua-cam.com/video/W0MY-T0Rz3Y/v-deo.htmlsi=rAvaaHizIpvP5YO9
It’s a reasonable assumption that literally ANYTHING in a Beatles song that (a) could conceivably have been an overdub and (b) is of a high degree of technical difficulty at full speed but easier to pull off at a slower speed, may have been recorded using vari-speed. Why on earth would you NOT make life easier for yourself, once you were made aware that the option existed.
So, the first things I thought as I started watching the video: If George had recorded the lick at half speed, in order for it sound sound right at full speed, he would have to either: -Play the lick at a much lower position on the neck. -Tune the his guitar much lower. Neither of which were possible for this speculation? In my experience, half-speed in this manner was used simply for practice. It wasn't used for final recordings. So all this studio talk is really about leaving George an empty space, with a "click track" to practice the lick to, and later dub over at the normal speed.
What George apparently had in mind for the "Help" arpeggio is a fairly common country lick which is usually played with a right hand "claw", that is either the thumb followed by the next three fingers or a pick in the thumb and pointer finger, followed by the next two or three fingers. This also called a "roll", and was a major part of Jim/Roger McGuinn's 12-string technique which he learned from playing the banjo where commonly used. I don't think that George every mastered the "claw" or "roll" of any kind, so he definitely did to play that lick using it. I think you have it right that they slowed the track down so that he could play it. Cheating? I think so. Also, the "muting" effect might be that the action of George's Strat was very low and the strings did not sustain well. We hear distinct string buzz in the solo on "Nowhere Man" which was played on that same Strat, so this just may be the answer to his :muted" sound on the "Help" lick. George had a great concept of guitar and a beautiful musical imagination. However, his playing technique never developed past a moderate ability on the instrument, particularly compared to his good friend, Eric Clapton. This is likely why he wisely went to more and more slide playing which requires a completely different (not lesser) technique and physical ability that suited him better..
I'm sure I read somewhere that it wasn't so much that it was too fast to play but more that George was fighting doing it on just downstrokes feeling it was too obvious stubbornly preferring to pick the strings individually making it harder to do at the songs tempo, if I remember right it was John who tired of George fighting the obvious way to play it and covinced him to just go the easier route
where can I listen to the session dialogues? Very interesting video. Poor George, seems to be bothered with low self esteem the whole way trough the Beatles carreer
they did slow the tape down on "A Hard Day's Night", didn't they? "Halved", as Paul said? Or you don't consider it varispeed because it's different technology?
@ George couldn’t handle the solo for While my Guitar… (played by Clapton) and Taxman (Paul). George was good at arrangements but just wasn’t good at improve. They had to record some of his solos at a slower speed because he didn’t have the chops to do them.
@@Dex619 Paul doesn't have better chops than George did. Paul played Taxman solo not because George couldn't handle it technically, he had the idea and George did not. Same thing with While My Guitar Gently Weeps. George couldn't work out a part that would fit and satisfy him. You're mixing up two different thing, technical abilities with ideas. George was the better guitarist. Well, that's why he got the position of a lead guitarist in the band in the first place!
Hmmm, seems to me to be a bit of a case of using a wrecking ball to crack a nut here 🤷. I mean, what about the dozens and dozens of times he played it live without varispeed, a strat, or bits of paper!!.
Really interesting (to us Beatle nerds). Question - is using varispeed to record this or the "In My Life" piano any more ethical than modern auto-tune or pitch correction on vocals? I don't mind autotune when it's clearly being used as a sound effect - e.g. T-Pain and Drake vocals. I don't like it, but I'm not offended by it. Some people might hate the sound of wah-wah pedals. Chacun a son gout. I guess my position is that you can do anything you want in the studio. Such effects are part of the recording process. But playing live, it's fraudulent, and takes away from the emotion of the rendition.
Do you mean Slow Down? That is one of the Best Solos George ever did, the Tone, what he did with it was truly Eclectic. But everyone is or has their own Opinion.
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Your guitar tutorials are consistently the most accurate on UA-cam. Always a joy to see a new one.
George's thoughtful playing style is the essence of his character.
This is my opinion.
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Another fascinating video, Galeazzo. It's always interesting to learn more about the nuances of The Beatles' music. Helps my guitar playing immensely!
HES BACK?!?! i was just diving thru this channel and remembering how much you have dont for the community. Glad this channel isnt dead omg !!
Well he had no problem playing it live after playing it a few times.
Live performances and recording studio performances are held to a very different standard.
That is an amazing piece of detective work right there, that you've done, Galeazzo!
Going down the rabbit hole of questioning George's guitar attack on Help:
Up to the point where researching the recording technique led you down the path of a 'casual' bit of dialogue between the band and the producer which, in turn, led to your resolving how to perfectly recreate the tone...some journey. Wow.
I enjoy the deep dives. It's great to see how the beatles managed to get a particular tone or phrasing on the records.
Nice to see a new video from you.
Thank you sir! That was fascinating. Its crazy to think how much work goes into a recording. The stuff we might take for granted now took a lot of work back then.
Great stuff...❤✌️🎸
George says “cause it’s just that it’s so fast” not “cause it’s just a bit so fast” 😀
I confirm he says cause "it’s just a bit SO fast" but it's a exciting phenomeon how some hear a different thing sort of Mandela effect :)))
I confirm he says ‘it’s just that it’s so fast’
He actually says, cause it’s just the bit’s so fast…..
@@markplumb3968 THAT actually makes sense!
You're the best! I always thought that Help didn't sound right with the Tennessean. Amazing discovery!
Thanks, Galeazzo. Great job in figuring out George played the immortal, arpegiated intro. to 'Help!' on a Strat.
But, I am surprised that you had not previously heard or read that George recorded the 'Help!' intro. at a lower speed - it is common knowledge, and mentioned in several books. I think I first suspected that in the 1980s.
I am in awe of George (and occasionally Paul and John) for being able to hear a new song, and come up with such devastatingly brilliant intros., riffs, fills, solos and licks.
Wow... really great video!!! 🙏🎶
The king is back!!
I would add if you watch the Beatles performing Help on the Ed Sullivan show, you can see John tapping the beat for George during his descending guitar lick. As musical artists the Beatles were amazing. But also they had a truly outstanding producer and classically trained musician with George Martin. The engineers and technical staff were creative and top notch. I like to think the planets were in alignment for all this to happen and we were lucky to witness it. Good Stuff!
That's gotta the sweetest sounding Electromatic on the planet
Finally you came back!
Fantastic insight into the recording of Help!... Definitely they used the technique of slowing down the tape very early on, on the solo of A Hard Day's Night and then on In My Life....Absolutely fascinating !!
Yes, I specifically remember Paul mentioning, I think it was in one of the Rick Rubin interviews, that George's solo with the triplets on 'A Hard Day's Night' was recorded at half speed and a lower pitch and then the tape sped up to achieve the desired tempo and pitch. I'd always been frustrated trying to pull off the feel of that lick even though the notes seem relatively straightforward...when Paul mentioned that the light went on.
It's amazing that the Beatles continue to surprise us after all these years. Thank you Galeazzo for your insight and determination!👍👍
You Cracked the NUT!!! I always knew something was up with that riff. Ironic that the other Fab Movie Song Title "A HArd DaYs NiGhT" has vari-speed on the Guitar Riff.
Most interesting. It does also make me wonder as a former amateur musician (bass), how George was not acknowledged by the other two for his contributions on lead guitar. I mean if they had the basic song and then brought it to the recording studio and it was then hewn and polished to their requirements and satisfaction, I think that it is quite unlikely that neither John or Paul had much idea about what they really wanted for the lead at the time until they got a few very important prompts from George. For this reason alone, there should have been a lot of songs credited to Lennon/McCartney/Harrison.
Extraordinary research and experimentation. Well done!!
I always love listening to your in depth videos!
Palm muting “wasn’t known at the time”????!!!
What? Nobody in the history of the world has ever played a guitar for more than five minutes without naturally and organically discovering the benefits of palm-muting, without anyone having to “discover” it or teach it to anyone else. Its impossible not to do it by accident, unless you are very consciously trying not to, and impossible not to notice that it sounds good when you do. It’s just an inherent part of playing the instrument.
I think when people say this they’re misconstruing the fact that a particular style of hard-rock guitar that involves low power chords played with heavy muting - that “chug, chug” sound you associate with those later styles of music - was yet to become popular, and extrapolating from that that it never occurred to any guitarist to gently rest the edge of their hand on the strings to get crisper, more staccato arpeggios.
Frankly, the idea of doing a full rock show with your hand hovering awkwardly above the strings, rather than relaxing on top of them and raising only when you particularly want a particular string or strings to ring out (which is what guitarists are doing instinctively, whether they realize it or not) sounds like hell on earth. Just pure laziness alone will lead any guitarist to naturally discover palm-muting.
Guitar players going back at least to Merle Travis have used palm muting all the time.
What a great video Galeazzo. So interesting to find out some of these recording secrets. Well done for discovering them.
Ha-ha! I swear on a stack of bibles that I have been working on this riff over the last couple of days and I just can't seem to get the hang of it. Now I know why! Thank you!!
Cool send the link to your recreation
Spot on! Except the transcription (@0:05) should read...
GM: ...would it be safer to overdub that one on?
GH: Don't think so no, 'cause it's just that it's so fast
This was beyond tutoring... you had become a scholar in Beatles music (a prominent one by all means) 😊. Now you should ask Paul McCartney, see if he remembers...
WOW ! That was outstanding detective work and I am completely blown away not only by your knowledge of music but you can build the sound to specs also. BRAVO, BRAVO!
Your videos have unmatched quality and are always a great pleasure to watch! 💥👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Caro! You are genius level ❤
Fantastic explanation of a difficult passage. The strat is clearly the instrument of choice.
Very interesting. Great detective work there! Didn’t George Harrison play the guitar solo and George Martin play the piano solo on Hard Days Night at half speed? Which of course is 1964.
George Martin's piano solo on "In My Life" was recorded at half speed... ua-cam.com/video/W0MY-T0Rz3Y/v-deo.htmlsi=rAvaaHizIpvP5YO9
Yes they pleaed the ADHN solo at half speed
Amazing analysis and communication
Martin (shouts): HARRISONNNNNN!!!!!
Harrison: But it's just a bit too FAST!
This is SOOOOOO interesting, loving all of this insight....Thank you for your time spent investigating!
The varispeed in those days was good for about 4 semitones at each tape speed. Any slower and the motors would struggle to keep the capstan steady.
You are the Man.
Galeazzo, this is the type of content I love! You disproved an age-old misconception with evidence and facts. I myself have NEVER been able to play this riff like the record at normal speed. I always had a hunch it was manipulated somehow - I'm just glad I can finally stop trying! 😉
Excellent!!
One thought I have about George switching to the strat…I bet that he switched to the strat because he didn’t want to retune the Gretsch that he’d use on a different song that day.
Nice clue to investigate
Wow, job well done.! I cannot believe how close your guitar intro is to George. It’s remarkable. Usually when people say oh I got it close you listen to it. It’s disappointing. No, you’ve got it dead on.
thanks a lot! quite an interesting and complete documentary video
I just wish George would use the Strat on stage at the time, even if during mimed TV (or movie) performances. Same with Paul and the Rick 4003. Sure, All You Need Is Love and I Am The Walrus, but it would've been nice to show for filming of other songs for clues to the public.
No Proof but i bet Brian Epstein their Manager/who they trusted, Wanted their guitars to be the Darker Colors, and them in Matching outfits. Once they got Popular they wanted to stay that way. And most stuff was in black and White. Glad they Filmed Shea 65 in Color. The 2 strats were both SONIC BLUE, a real Light color of course. Just a Possibility.
I always figured he played it with his fingers like Chet Atkins. Cool video!
Excellent work man.
This was where George started to break down walls. It sounds like some angry crustacean trying to escape from a guitar's soundhole. Bloody brilliant.
Incredible video! Thank You!
Some very interesting detective work here, and the studio chatter does seem to fit with the idea that the tape speed was changed. And the tone is a very good match. Didn't George use this recording speed trick on the Hard Day's Night solo too?
Yes George Martin and Norman Smith did that :)
Verispeed was even used on A Hard Days Night for the solo.
That was not the varispeed control. That was just playing the tape machine at the half speed. 7.5 inches per second instead of 15 ips. No external device was needed to do that. Frudua is pointing out that button on Studer J-37 machine in the video.
Magnificent!
I THINK YOU'RE ON TO SOMETHING HERE! That was quite fun to hear how you arrived at these conclusions, and they seem spot on.
This is quite the interesting revelation you've made. I've found in my research as well that basically anything was possible as far as their recordings are concerned. They were always doing things differently to fit the song.
Excellent detective work !
That was interesting. Well done 👍😎
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All Beatles fans who got a copy of the bootleg "Ultra Rare Trax Volume 3 & 4" when it first came out (on Beeb Transcription Records - TR 2190 S) have known since 1988 that George's descending riff in "Help!" was a varispeed overdub. Simply, we didn't have vlogs to share this information around. Nice work on this video. But, btw, it also must be said that George Martin recorded at half speed to overdub his piano solo onto "In My Life" -- another example of The Beatles using varispeed before "Rain." Listen here to George Martin's isolated original "In My Life" piano solo at the speed George Martin played it: ua-cam.com/video/W0MY-T0Rz3Y/v-deo.htmlsi=rAvaaHizIpvP5YO9
Can you please share this Ultra Rare Trax Volume 3 & 4 bootleg? info@fruduamusic.com
Bravo !
Nice work!
bravissimo!
It’s a reasonable assumption that literally ANYTHING in a Beatles song that (a) could conceivably have been an overdub and (b) is of a high degree of technical difficulty at full speed but easier to pull off at a slower speed, may have been recorded using vari-speed. Why on earth would you NOT make life easier for yourself, once you were made aware that the option existed.
Very interesting!
Its crazy that you were able to figure this out I would have guessed that George was adjusting his tome control to get the sound.
So, the first things I thought as I started watching the video:
If George had recorded the lick at half speed, in order for it sound sound right at full speed, he would have to either:
-Play the lick at a much lower position on the neck.
-Tune the his guitar much lower.
Neither of which were possible for this speculation?
In my experience, half-speed in this manner was used simply for practice. It wasn't used for final recordings. So all this studio talk is really about leaving George an empty space, with a "click track" to practice the lick to, and later dub over at the normal speed.
Did you watch the video carefully in its entirety?
Great and interesting 👍👍👍
It sounds incredible… and credible.
Bravo Galeazzo!
Great work. One wonders if anyone could ask Paul. 🙂
The guitar arpeggio reminds me of Billy talent nothing to lose
What George apparently had in mind for the "Help" arpeggio is a fairly common country lick which is usually played with a right hand "claw", that is either the thumb followed by the next three fingers or a pick in the thumb and pointer finger, followed by the next two or three fingers. This also called a "roll", and was a major part of Jim/Roger McGuinn's 12-string technique which he learned from playing the banjo where commonly used.
I don't think that George every mastered the "claw" or "roll" of any kind, so he definitely did to play that lick using it.
I think you have it right that they slowed the track down so that he could play it.
Cheating? I think so.
Also, the "muting" effect might be that the action of George's Strat was very low and the strings did not sustain well. We hear distinct string buzz in the solo on "Nowhere Man" which was played on that same Strat, so this just may be the answer to his :muted" sound on the "Help" lick.
George had a great concept of guitar and a beautiful musical imagination. However, his playing technique never developed past a moderate ability on the instrument, particularly compared to his good friend, Eric Clapton. This is likely why he wisely went to more and more slide playing which requires a completely different (not lesser) technique and physical ability that suited him better..
That same descending line in Help is used in Cry Baby Cry just played a little differently.
actually 🤓☝️ they have used varispeed even before help! on a hard day's night, the solo is sped up also !
Great video. Where can I find and listen to the Beatles recording sessions you showed in vid? Keep up the great work.
You can find them here on YT Help outakes
That arpeggio is tough for me. A right-hand challenge.
Dovrebbero darti un contratto da ordinario in un'università ❤
Mate, there should be a degree in what you’re doing
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"It's just that it's so fast" is more likely what he said
Didnt George also experiment with a Telecaster. A Tele sounds very plucky and twangy like the one on Help.
Thank you for this technical insight into Beatles production. However, I now strangely have a craving for chianti and lasagna, so I end the comment.
I'm sure I read somewhere that it wasn't so much that it was too fast to play but more that George was fighting doing it on just downstrokes feeling it was too obvious stubbornly preferring to pick the strings individually making it harder to do at the songs tempo, if I remember right it was John who tired of George fighting the obvious way to play it and covinced him to just go the easier route
where can I listen to the session dialogues? Very interesting video. Poor George, seems to be bothered with low self esteem the whole way trough the Beatles carreer
Have you watched the video in it's entirety? ;)
Yes! I just need the source for the dialogue !
@@joachimdalgard5288 look for the Help outtuakes here in YT
That’s not what George said. He said, “ it’s just that it’s so fast”.
Pretty sure George recorded the solo for A Hard Days Night like this too, didnt he?
I listened to you at double speed.
Regarding the list of songs with varispeed, could you clarify why, for example, Fixing A Hole and Everybody's Got Something are listed?
they did slow the tape down on "A Hard Day's Night", didn't they? "Halved", as Paul said? Or you don't consider it varispeed because it's different technology?
Wouldn't the first time they used this technique have been for the solo on AHDN?
George's version sounds warmer
You have to realize that they recorded onto tape which is inherently warmer sounding than digital
@jacksonjacksoff what would Mr. Miyagi say?
@@live2shredguy ;)
AU-some audio forensics. 🤓 I always just assumed it was the Tennessean.
Paul could have played it in one take.
Obviously he couldn't. If he could he would have done it.
@ George couldn’t handle the solo for While my Guitar… (played by Clapton) and Taxman (Paul). George was good at arrangements but just wasn’t good at improve. They had to record some of his solos at a slower speed because he didn’t have the chops to do them.
@@Dex619 Paul doesn't have better chops than George did. Paul played Taxman solo not because George couldn't handle it technically, he had the idea and George did not. Same thing with While My Guitar Gently Weeps. George couldn't work out a part that would fit and satisfy him. You're mixing up two different thing, technical abilities with ideas. George was the better guitarist. Well, that's why he got the position of a lead guitarist in the band in the first place!
In lieu of varispeed, I'd suggest finger picking.
I could be wrong but i thought it was a Hard Day's Night (solo) they used varispeed? '64?
Hmmm, seems to me to be a bit of a case of using a wrecking ball to crack a nut here 🤷. I mean, what about the dozens and dozens of times he played it live without varispeed, a strat, or bits of paper!!.
Di you watch the video in its entirety?
@@TheBeatlesVocalHarmony .... I did indeed Sir 👍.
Really interesting (to us Beatle nerds). Question - is using varispeed to record this or the "In My Life" piano any more ethical than modern auto-tune or pitch correction on vocals? I don't mind autotune when it's clearly being used as a sound effect - e.g. T-Pain and Drake vocals. I don't like it, but I'm not offended by it. Some people might hate the sound of wah-wah pedals. Chacun a son gout.
I guess my position is that you can do anything you want in the studio. Such effects are part of the recording process. But playing live, it's fraudulent, and takes away from the emotion of the rendition.
If the singer is skilled not using autotune in your recordings, gives the whole song a completely different vibe.
George borrowed the line from Merle Travis.
Its a Gretsch with old strings.😄
no comprende
Slowdown has maybe the worst performance of George on guitar
Do you mean Slow Down? That is one of the Best Solos George ever did, the Tone, what he did with it was truly Eclectic. But everyone is or has their own Opinion.
Disagree. One of George's best solo's!
Hmm, the vintage Gretsch sounds significantly fuller and deeper than the modded one, FWIW.