Want to learn some Beatles songs

[guizzy]

For a bass workout: "Hey Bulldog"

 

[Atoz]

The first Beatles song I ever learned was "Help!" It's not too hard at all.

 

[Dmanlamius]

Hiya, Joe...

I have a "Come Together" lessons here:

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Not sure if it will help, but I thought i'd post it.

 

[wiro]

You can also try to find your own way of doing their work.
This is done very tastefully by Beatlegrass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzFvlkvzNug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uQNvRFJB74

etc. etc.etc.

 

[Joe Lindley]

Hiya, Joe...

I have a "Come Together" lessons here:

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Not sure if it will help, but I thought i'd post it.

Thanks for your post. I took a look at it. I'll have to go home an give it a try.

Joe

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

I transcribed this one some time ago. Hope you'll find it useful:

Sir Paul detuned his bass' E string to D for this song, BTW.

 

[McHaven]

Sir Paul detuned his bass' E string to D for this song, BTW.

I have to call you out on this. According to Geoff Emerick's memoirs of engineering for the beatles, and Mark Lewisohn's session notes, there is no record of Paul ever detuning in the studio.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

I have to call you out on this. According to Geoff Emerick's memoirs of engineering for the beatles, and Mark Lewisohn's session notes, there is no record of Paul ever detuning in the studio.

Of course I cannot contradict such source but anyway, I clearly hear a low D in measure 28. Brian Fox of Bass Player Magazine heard it as well.

Plus, "Yesterday" was conceived and performed live in the key of G, but I'm pretty sure that McCartney used a detuned acoustic guitar for the studio version. You can see him here lip-syncing the studio version (in F) but playing it in G major on his acoustic guitar.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Plus, "Yesterday" was conceived and performed live in the key of G, but I'm pretty sure that McCartney used a detuned acoustic guitar for the studio version. You can see him here lip-syncing the studio version (in F) but playing it in G major on his acoustic guitar.

Here's another source.

 

[kingbee]

Yeah, the song has a low-D, definitely. If you follow along with the transcription, you'll hear it. Just because no one says he did it, doesn't mean it didn't happen. In any case, the Beatles recorded quite a number of tunes in a different key than they were finally played back for mixing. You can spot them pretty easily if you listen to the drums. Check out Rain or Everybody's Got Something Hide... and you can tell that the songs were actually played in different keys than you're hearing on the record.

Anyway, as far as learning Paul's lines go, the Bass Master book is a great place to start and you'll also want to dig up the Something transcription from Bass Player April 2006. You can use the notation above, but the tab in BP gives a good idea of the position that the notes are played in.

I think once you dig into the songs you'll find that your difficulty rankings might need to be amended. The Word is definitely an easy groove but it has some of the most ridiculous fills ever. Come Together on the other hand sounds a lot more complex than it is.