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great video, thumbs up 👍🏻

That was such a well made video, i'm shocked you aren't more popular!

Here, There and Everywhere was the first Beatles song assigned to me in a Jazz Piano class in college. I was slogging through all the modes, wondering if it would all make sense someday. And it did...much later.

just a helpful tip - it's ok; we all make mistakes - just stop popping into the mic (p-p-p-p-ick up a penguin) it means i have to turn 200hz downwards off and that doesn't help the music any. Mic - mouth - at least 6-8 inches. Always. Otherwise, interesting video.

I think, I think Paul has taken this sudden flat chord idea from John's opening/intro of If I Fell, which is not only far more interesting in its tune, it is also a landmark in pop music composition which Paul was well aware of. Too much fuss is made over Here, There and Everywhere.

I have a Major headache.

This is called enharmonics.

I like this kid.Warm Greetings from the BundesRepublik of Deutschland. Great content please do more Harmony analysis of great songs

They weren’t that musically educated. It’s astounding what they did, though!

I feel sorry for people who play or think in music theory. They are the least creative

This explanation works very well for someone who already understands it.

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They dont sound so good at all

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A perfect example of how writing music without knowing the rules breaks all the rules or can be explained by people who know the rules and describe how genius your rule breaking is when you just wrote what you wanted to without following the rules, and then we have nice little genius new songwriting rules to follow if you want to break the rules.

As correct as all this is, it's not likely to help anyone write better at all. Good explanation though.

Paul has mentioned the Beach Boys as an influence and I can hear a strong influence from the Beach Boys song 'The Warmth Of The Sun'.

Respect: Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 1926 - 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician. He was commonly referred to as the "fifth Beatle" 🕊️🎸

No not crazy at all - I think it should be a Bb Augmented triad because the Bminor has an F# and the A minor is sort of related to the F# because even thought it doesn't have one if it did then it would be a viiº a half diminished. What's interesting is the relationship between the V7 and bVii7 which is all about altered V7 even though it is a secondary dominate of Bb.

Awesome Beatles’ Songs Compositions: This song is also often played by orchestras & classical ensembles & quartets too - because it is so musically 🎶 enjoyable. 😁

I think calling it mixolydian is a little bit of stretch, its just a modulation to G minor/Bb Major. Furthermore in G myxolydian you’d have Fmaj7 not F dominant.

I am sure Macca sat and considered these things as he wrote it. Surely he didn't just think "hmm, that sounds good...and that will work"

I didn't understand 95 % of what you said .....but , for some reason , I enjoyed it...???!? Or , is that just me...? 🤔

Next ti9me you narrate, don't eat the microphone.

Paul didn’t think this through the way it’s laid out here. He doesn’t read music and he writes by ear. Every musical point made in this video is both entirely accurate and also absolutely incidental- it’s a musical student’s mindset retrofitted to explain a song Paul strummed and hummed into reality all on his own. Paul has always been a naturally gifted musician. He didn’t study music as his entry point into songwriting and performing. It’s completely valid to assess any musical composition based on academic criteria, however with Paul there’s no hard link between existing musical chordal theory and his writing style. Paul writes from the heart, not the head. He got where he is without a single formal musical theory class.

Also our brains will accept chromatic, non-diatonic leaps if they are they same interval each time. Like Coltrane's jumps in minor thirds, for example...

hendrix cribbed this motion in "Little Wing"; the Bm Bb Am change in the middle of the (strophic) chord progression. He was a big fan...I could be wrong but it gives the same effect.

Bm isn't the minor third of G. It's the major third minor.

Could we think of this as borrowing from Parallel Harmonic Minor Cmin temporarily? Where bVIMaj bVIIMaj are diatonic to C Harm Minor, like a temporary "tonal quality" shift CMaj -> CMin with the common link being the V7 diatonic (sorta) to both? (Also FYI, I know the last chord is a G7 and you also played one, but I think it's mislabeled as a IV instead of V?) 👍

Great mission statement. The first vid I saw was your "Here There & Everywhere" vid and it's exactly the music theory aspect you contribute that got me psyched to have found your channel. I'm a theory nerd (Bezerklee alum many moons ago- very heavy in the musical application of complex theory) but I've gotten rusty in many areas. Your approach to breaking it down very very helpful to me. Thx! k I'll chill from blowing up your comments haha

Btw, digging that 16th note "double tap" vibe here. (On the kick, clap and the keys). Has a nice subtle swing to it I think. Do you have the quantize on straight 16 then added a few % swing? Or are you achieving this in another way? (Just realized this is some months ago, so no worries if too specific a thing to answer!) Cheers

1st like / comment 🤘 Great stream! As an audio engineer/prod I love being a fly on the wall checking out other musicians' process creating and the gear they use. Esp when a device is played with a level of skill one only expects to see on an actual instrument (gtr, keys etc) but yet they are rocking eg. an MPC2K or a turntable with next-level mastery and efficiency, that it IS just like a master pianist or guitarist and just happens to be that their instrument is an MPC or a Serato digital DJ desk etc. So I see you doing that kind of thing with that "live play" sampler/looper device with the oversized red/yellow/green round pads (4 of em I think). I've seen this 2x now (this girl on Tiktok just crushing it like a BEAST, extracting every bit of creativity from it FAST, cutting beats/songs that blow my mind in less than 3 min!) and you rocking it too. Nice! My long winded question is WHAT box is that?? I have a blind spot tho somehow (as an eng I'm usually on top of well-loved gear) and I do not know WTH that box is. But not only do ppl seem to love it, but it seems to really inspire all kinds of creative flows really quickly. Could you tell me what the magic sauce is of that box? I get that it's a looper with 4 tracks (I think) and has well designed punch-in/out/overdub functions and it looks fun to play. But, it seems to perhaps "auto-fit" the samples in real time maybe? Bc it seems like you can clip a 2 bar loop let's say, but your in/out timing can be imprecise but on the loop back it's nicely aligned on beat and doesn't take any nudging around to get the loops (and overdubs) to all lock in nicely. Am I making this up tho? Lol. Maybe you guys are just really good at catching loops that it looks effortless but takes know-how to get there? Cuz when I'm chopping up live samples in let's say Pro Tools, I'm fast, but it requires quite a bit of nudging to get each loop locked in if my trigger time is sloppy. But you guys seem to get it locked on the first try and just keep quickly stacking, keeping the vibe and creativity going, without futzing too much with ins/outs. Apologies for the CRAZY long comment but I've been wondering this for a while and I'd go look it up but in your vid and others and I can't see who makes the dang box! Haha. Anyway, if you got some tips or feedback about it I'd love to hear. Great watching you work tho! Cheers mate!

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I wish I could understand this.

George Martin was a great musician

As much as I enjoy discussions such as this, I can’t help but recall John Lennon’s bemused annoyance when people spoke of Beatles music in terms of “Aeolian cadences” and “pandiatonic clusters.” I have a sense that each of them wrote a particular song in a particular way simply because it “sounded right.”

George Martin was the genius 5th beatle

Im sure paul mccartney didnt even think of all that when he wrote that. Some stuff you can just feel.... You pick the guitar sing over something and it just clicks... And you might have no idea about theory. I regret to tell You that much as you study music some talents are innate.

"...how strange, the change, from major, to minor"

Please explain, 'tuned to a natural e'.

If it sounds good, it’s good, that’s the crazy thing about music theory, I’ve experimented with the idea of playing something that sounds good to me, something that I don’t understand the theory of , if you dig into the theory you can find out how it’s supported by the theory, I’m 59 , been playing since I was 11 or 12 , I used to dread theory, now I am fascinated by it, not sure where along the line It happened

wow, i feel so vindicated, because for a long time now, my favorite Beatles song of all has been Here, There, and Everywhere. i could not articulate exactly why, other than to say that it is slow and beautifully melodic and harmonic, which is precisely the kind of music i like in general, for example, David Gates of Bread singing Aubrey, or Simon & Garfunkel singing Scarborough Faire, or the Carpenters singing basically anything

It happens all of the time in music, they’re accidentals most of the time, they happen & McCartney was always doing them on any instrument that he was playing.

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Fascinating stuff! Regarding the persistent tale that The Beatles couldn't read music (I can, but I'm slow), I came to realise recently that we need to turn this argument around. Written music is actually a means to record (and analyse) the complex aural chemistry of the sounds in our heads, and why some combinations work mellifluously when others jar - and all the subtle qualities between. Players who learn and play by ear (most pop musicians) are not necessarily to be judged negatively for that. They come at their music and their instruments with ideas, sounds, and tunes. And, in many cases, create great music! Or, yes, not! But through sheer experience (and The Beatles had a lot of practical musical experience by their early twenties), can deliver! What I'm getting at is that masses of music can and does exist without ever being written down. Recording it on paper may follow, but is not essential. Conversely, sure, a composer can start with a score. But it's still a demanding way for that composer to write down the sound in his/her head. And the musical analysis, (like above), can either follow that written record - or... if you're so inclined, be a key (ha ha) shaper of the music texture and chordal movement. But it's a relationship that humans have imposed upon music: music and theory. And inevitably, humans being human, have created a snobby hierarchy, which states that if you can't "read" music, or aren't "trained" you are somehow inferior as a musician. I would argue that you are not necessarily an inferior musician just because you find the arduous business of writing down what's in your head, somewhat tedious, when you'd rather just get on and play it! The Beatles knew what they were doing, even if they might not have been able to analyse it as above!

Yes, I remember being knocked out by this, as a youngster in the Sixties - and sought the music, to try and pick on guitar. Lovely sequence of chords!

It’s really simple. ANY CHORD CONNECTS TO ANY CHORD. You don’t need to think in terms of key.