Yeah, that was the Rickenbacker 12-string @GeorgeHarrison used in "A Hard Day's Night." Look at the chord he's playing. It's from the instrumental break of "Bells of Rhymney." :-) https://t.co/e9Z3w2hpAq— Roger McGuinn (@RogerMcGuinn) March 9, 2019
Wikipedia says: G7add9sus4, G7sus4, or G11sus4 and others below.— Roger McGuinn (@RogerMcGuinn) March 9, 2019
Part of the chord is an Fadd9 It is F with a G on top. https://t.co/ecpxEHtSJb
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I always tuned the G string down to F#. lute tuning
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F chord with a high G sounds about right. It's not an especially weird chord, but, as is typical of the Beatles, the mix was not straight forward:
"The mystery is caused by the fact that Martin is playing a piano chord atop Harrison's Fadd9 (or "F with a G on top," as he said in early 2001) played on his 12-string Rickenbacker, Lennon's Fadd9 played on his Gibson J-160E and McCartney's single note (D) played on his Hofner 500/1 bass.
George Harrison's 12-string Rickenbacker guitar solo was doubled on piano by Martin but tracked at half speed and sped up during mixing."
It’s kind of sad to me that they used Fourier analysis to lay bare all of the notes in that Hard Day’s Night chord.
George Harrison's 12-string Rickenbacker guitar solo was doubled on piano by Martin but tracked at half speed and sped up during mixing."
A little complicated for a live performance.
These sounds just happen when you jack around on a guitar a lot. The musicologists figure it out later.
I think Randy Bachman has it figured out here.
The difference between a boring guitarist, think the guy on the stairs in Animal House whose guitar Bluto Blutarski quite rightly destroyed, is that they never play with dissonance and resolution. Some jazz great once said “There are no bad notes, just bad resolutions."
Blogger rhhardin said...
I always tuned the G string down to F#. lute tuning
I try tuning the G string down, but find that it always rides up in the back.
Fritz said...
"George Harrison's 12-string Rickenbacker guitar solo was doubled on piano by Martin but tracked at half speed and sped up during mixing."
"A little complicated for a live performance."
Didn't really matter. All the screaming drowned out anything resembling a tune.
Thinking about it, I wonder why Roger McGuinn didn't become a Wilbury?
All of this is complete gibberish to me. I wish I had musical talent and taste but I don’t. Can’t read music, can’t play a single instrument, can’t even sing along with the hymns in church without embarrassed glares from my wife and kids. I hated every second of my music classes in elementary school and thereafter never made the slightest attempt to learn on my own. I rarely play music for my own listening pleasure, and when I do it’s something from my youth in the 70’s and 80’s that I’ve heard a thousand times. Or bluegrass, I like bluegrass pretty well.
I wonder if there is a gene mutation that deletes all the wiring for music from a developing human brain.
At least the chord didn't get lost. So there's that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q0Ce6Jjqsk
Jimmy Durante for the young 'uns
John Henry
Even bluegrass musicians don't like bluegrass.
Interesting. I just played it. Dashedly difficult to get the low E string in there. The photo doesn't look like he's using his thumb for it either. But the D-E sound right.
Of course, I only have a 6-string.
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