Paul McCartney/The Beatles: the perfect example of born genius applied to simplicity. No conservatories, no music theory, just creative genius in his DNA.
@@deathical you clearly know nothing about the history of The Beatles. They weren't aware of either of the two things you mentioned. It happens that people who know how to play an instrument or compose thanks to their training in a musical conservatory believe that it is impossible to do so without that theoretical/orthodox training. I never studied music, and in addition to being a singer I am a guitarist, bassist and drummer. It is about having the natural ability and dedicating many hours to practicing with the instrument (the voice is also an instrument and I am a vocal coach) When I started playing without studying, this platform did not even exist where today we can clearly see what chords were used through the thousands of tutorials. With just my musical ear and a lot of dedication I have been a musician for more than half my life and I can play any of those instruments at the same level (or even better) than someone who studied music theory. If one is born with the gift of musicality, adding knowledge of musical theory makes things much more practical, being able to read a score, use theoretical language when rehearsing and preparing a very elaborate show. But if you weren't born with a musical ear, there is no music conservatory that can create that in you, much less the compositional genius that The Beatles had.
People don't know what music theory really is sometimes. The Beatles 100% knew some music theory. They just didn't know it. If they knew no music theory they wouldn't of been able to write as much incredible songs as they did, and not even be able to write any songs for that matter. Just to know what chords are in what key, what chords will most likely sound good together and knowing how to work the fret board for lead parts and solos is all music theory at the end of the day. Basically everything in music it. It is basically the building block of it all.
That's why The Beatles will eternally stay as the most magical band ever. Most of those chords shouldn't even be there, like they don't even make sense. F7, A#... but they make the song unique and unrealistically melodious. I think most of these weird chord changes must have come from Paul since he's the bassist. Such a beautiful cover, too, Sam. Lovely!
Yeah. Paul and John both: One view is Paul's melodies tended to be "vertical" and go around scales, and John's horizontal" where he'd explore chromatic shifts by moving single fingers. In any case, they didn't like boring/predictable progressions, and couldn't care less about the "rules". The 'strange' chords made them stand out from the beginning, and as with Brian Wilson, their songs derived a lot of their emotional power from harmonic surprises. That appreciation for harmonic surprise, and for rhythmic variation, are two features of so much 60s pop music that make it stand out from everything afterward.
These are pretty ordinary chords. Plenty of jazz/pop standards use variations on these progressions. F7 To Bb in F major is featured in countless songs
That's the good thing about being a born musician. Such a musician does not compose "thinking like mathematical calculations" he simply composes from his musicality. That's why I always say that the conservatory musician, the orthodox, is a very limited musician. Music is an expression of the soul, and there are people who are born with "genius" properties, simple as that. A conservatory will make you a great teacher of theory, but it will never make you a genius or increase your creativity. You are born with it or not. The Beatles are the perfect example of that fact.
@@TheVinylBeatles Nobody's a born musician. People become who they become due to their surroundings and lifestyle. You're born with some distinctive qualities, yes, and they make you a particular kind of person. It's a pointless argument, maybe but I just don't think that they were born musicians. I respect your take at the same time.
I love how much detail and feeling Paul put into the song, considering there weren't a lot of instruments used. Another example of Paul doing so much with so little... Another win as always sam!
And I had just asked you about this one too! I quickly found out that the the lead used a capo as those pull offs were unreasonably hard. Amazing job as always Sam, i’ll be waiting for the “dum” bass cover!
Beautiful dude, this song is just amazing and you did such a great job at keeping that way. I can't wait for your next cover. - if you haven't done it already, Mull Of Kintyre by Paul McCartney is another beautiful song by him, I suggest you check it out. Anyways, great job man, I love your work
Мне всегда нравилась эта песня...С тех пор как я услышал её на Белом Альбоме . Просто мурашки по коже ! Великолепное исполнение ! За подробный рассказ о том,как записывалась песня - огромное спасибо и ,большой Плюс в Карму. Желаю как можно больше подписчиков ,потому,что Вы этого полностью заслуживаете !
@@sampopkin Ooh, I also had thought this one was a likely candidate for DGCFAD tuning. so you definitively hear the voicings as open A and Dm based on which notes are played where and what strings sound open? I certainly trust your ears!
Not to mention the final chord fmaj7, which is much easier in standard. Take a listen to the white album box set outtakes, where they go into a jam of blue moon, can you take me back, and step inside love. You can really hear the open d minor and fmaj7 chords here
still remember that outtake of Paul singing “If you want me to, I won’t”then just stops the song, very interesting that he went with singing the bass instead.
Who knows how long I've loved you You know I love you still Will I wait a lonely lifetime If you want me to, I will For if I ever saw you I didn't catch your name But it never really mattered I will always feel the same Love you forever and forever Love you with all my heart Love you whenever we're together Love you when we're apart And when at last I find you Your song will fill the air Sing it loud so I can hear you Make it easy to be near you For the things you do endear you to me You know I will I will
That was such a lovely song, Sam! You did a great job covering it. I'll be covering it soon on my channel and having this video will help me play it more accurately in the future. I might add some small twists to the chord guitar part, but for everything else, I'll learn from your version. Ryohei's video give me a different feeling for how the rhythm guitar was played.
This is lovely and appreciated. One thing -- I always wondered whether McCartney tuned his guitar down a whole step and played it using key of G guitar positions -- similar to Yesterday. I've never listened closely enough to know, but sometimes I play it this way and it feels nice.
That’s a really great way to play the song, but unfortunately not what paul did here. Take a listen to the extended jam of this song from white album box set, and you can hear him playing in standard tuning!
@@sampopkinjust wondering what did you do in the third verse for the walk down from d minor? also I noticed you used different c a lot like c with g on e string, c7, c major…
@@Henry3Studios Left-handed guitars were very difficult to find at that time and usually required a custom order, which is why all his guitars were converted right-handed guitars in the Beatles and often during early Wings too.
@@sampopkin yep...FYI the cars actually originally recorded that song in the key of E; but they altered the pitch in the studio...anyway elliott is an amazing soloist and used a lot of different licks/techniques and inspirations in his playing; like the 'spirit in the sky' stuff on ''magic'...really enjoying your vids BTW; very cool and extremely well done...blessings to you brother 😎
Thanks man! I didn't know that it was sped up. Makes sense, because whenever I tried to play along to it growing up it wasnt exactly in E or F. Always had to detune
@@sampopkin haha yes...i think i accidentally discovered palm muting when playing along to that record as a teenager way back in the day 🤣 BTW your beatles stuff is so good; i just wish there was youtube back then ha 😆 keep up the great work and know that it is truly appreciated my friend ✌
In the upper section was the same guitar overdubbed twice or did they play 3 guitars ? Anyway the 5th Beatle was neither Brian Epstein nor George Martin, it's Sam🎉😅
So impressive ! Thank you for your nice cover. I'm playing guitar for 3 years now but I still struggle to play this kind of F7 with the pinky on the 4th fret.. Do you have any tips to improve that ?
Thanks! I would say, don’t stress too much getting a good note out of the high e string or d string. The low E, A, G and B strings are the main ones here. Sometimes trying to bar a chord perfectly on F7 shape makes it harder to stretch that pinky
Hey Ably House! I’m trying to release my own cover of If I Fell but my video got blocked my UMG. How did you manage to keep your video up? I have no interest in monetization but I would like the video to be viewable on TH-cam. Your advice would be great appreciated! Thanks!
how the hell does that riff work at the end of the verses! i can not for the life of me figure it out. It sounds like a country riff but i can't get it to sound right
So this song, sung in the first person, is about a guy who fantasizes his whole life about a perfect woman he is in love with, but has never found (hence the title, "I Will"). Have I got that right?
@@sampopkinalways thought ADT, as I noticed he applied the same sound to Goodbye on Mary Hopkin's recording. Maybe it was a combo of ADT and manual doubling, a là George on Fixing a Hole?
I can finally say: I told you it is the cover.
Paul McCartney/The Beatles: the perfect example of born genius applied to simplicity.
No conservatories, no music theory, just creative genius in his DNA.
They definetly knew music theory, sheet music on the other hand...
@@deathical you clearly know nothing about the history of The Beatles.
They weren't aware of either of the two things you mentioned.
It happens that people who know how to play an instrument or compose thanks to their training in a musical conservatory believe that it is impossible to do so without that theoretical/orthodox training.
I never studied music, and in addition to being a singer I am a guitarist, bassist and drummer.
It is about having the natural ability and dedicating many hours to practicing with the instrument (the voice is also an instrument and I am a vocal coach)
When I started playing without studying, this platform did not even exist where today we can clearly see what chords were used through the thousands of tutorials.
With just my musical ear and a lot of dedication I have been a musician for more than half my life and I can play any of those instruments at the same level (or even better) than someone who studied music theory.
If one is born with the gift of musicality, adding knowledge of musical theory makes things much more practical, being able to read a score, use theoretical language when rehearsing and preparing a very elaborate show.
But if you weren't born with a musical ear, there is no music conservatory that can create that in you, much less the compositional genius that The Beatles had.
People don't know what music theory really is sometimes. The Beatles 100% knew some music theory. They just didn't know it. If they knew no music theory they wouldn't of been able to write as much incredible songs as they did, and not even be able to write any songs for that matter. Just to know what chords are in what key, what chords will most likely sound good together and knowing how to work the fret board for lead parts and solos is all music theory at the end of the day. Basically everything in music it. It is basically the building block of it all.
That's why The Beatles will eternally stay as the most magical band ever. Most of those chords shouldn't even be there, like they don't even make sense. F7, A#... but they make the song unique and unrealistically melodious. I think most of these weird chord changes must have come from Paul since he's the bassist.
Such a beautiful cover, too, Sam. Lovely!
Yeah. Paul and John both: One view is Paul's melodies tended to be "vertical" and go around scales, and John's horizontal" where he'd explore chromatic shifts by moving single fingers. In any case, they didn't like boring/predictable progressions, and couldn't care less about the "rules". The 'strange' chords made them stand out from the beginning, and as with Brian Wilson, their songs derived a lot of their emotional power from harmonic surprises. That appreciation for harmonic surprise, and for rhythmic variation, are two features of so much 60s pop music that make it stand out from everything afterward.
I’d hardly say F7 and Bb are unusual. The song being in the key of F, the Bb (A#) is simply the IV chord
These are pretty ordinary chords. Plenty of jazz/pop standards use variations on these progressions. F7 To Bb in F major is featured in countless songs
That's the good thing about being a born musician. Such a musician does not compose "thinking like mathematical calculations" he simply composes from his musicality.
That's why I always say that the conservatory musician, the orthodox, is a very limited musician.
Music is an expression of the soul, and there are people who are born with "genius" properties, simple as that.
A conservatory will make you a great teacher of theory, but it will never make you a genius or increase your creativity.
You are born with it or not.
The Beatles are the perfect example of that fact.
@@TheVinylBeatles Nobody's a born musician. People become who they become due to their surroundings and lifestyle. You're born with some distinctive qualities, yes, and they make you a particular kind of person. It's a pointless argument, maybe but I just don't think that they were born musicians. I respect your take at the same time.
I love this song! This sounded exactly like the recording
I love how much detail and feeling Paul put into the song, considering there weren't a lot of instruments used. Another example of Paul doing so much with so little... Another win as always sam!
Beautifully done Sam! I love this song 😄
A pretty unique chord progression, pure McCartney. One of his best
Of the many ridiculous Beatle stats, the list of songs that Macca wrote in just ‘67/68 is simply staggering!!! 😮😮😮
Acoustic magic.
And I had just asked you about this one too! I quickly found out that the the lead used a capo as those pull offs were unreasonably hard. Amazing job as always Sam, i’ll be waiting for the “dum” bass cover!
Dum dum dum 🎶
You never cease to amaze me on these. Thank you so much for sharing you love of the Beatles with us.
Oustanding as always Sam! You nailed the tone !!
Such beautiful chords. An underrated gem by Paul. Good choice 😊
Excelente!!!...muchas gracias por esta lección, asi se toca!!.felicitaciones!!
Such great chords - a seemingly simple song but the devil's in the detail, as ever. No wonder we're still talking about the band 50 -plus years on.
This is deceptively hard to play. I’m thoroughly impressed!
God I love this song. So well done Sam. 👍🏼
Thanks Sam! That capo 1 makes more sense for learning the guitar fills. Awesome cover.
Thanks!!
Thanks a lot for uploading this cover, I love it
Thank you Sam, with performances like this, I perceive a different taste on this gems! 😢 Nearly to tears
Simple song but in a very deceptive way. Love it.
Paul’s strumming is so painful to do! I’m glad you’re the only one to capture his strumming
This is the best Beatles song ever. Amazing cover.
Nice cover!
Love it, Sam (as usual)!
Killer cover, bro. Great attention to detail.
Fooled us all. Nice choice!
Beautiful dude, this song is just amazing and you did such a great job at keeping that way. I can't wait for your next cover. - if you haven't done it already, Mull Of Kintyre by Paul McCartney is another beautiful song by him, I suggest you check it out. Anyways, great job man, I love your work
Mull of kintyre is one of my favorite songs. I’ll just need some bagpipes 😉
Felicitaciones!!!!..estubo excelente esa interpretación de ese hermoso tema i will de The Beatles..fabuloso!!! Gracias!!!
Good job Sam. I love this song, thanks for doing this.
Great! Its perfect. Congrats!!!!
Fantastic Sam … absolutely love ur passion!
Paul haswa good sense🎵
George! ❤
Мне всегда нравилась эта песня...С тех пор как я услышал её на Белом Альбоме . Просто мурашки по коже ! Великолепное исполнение ! За подробный рассказ о том,как записывалась песня - огромное спасибо и ,большой Плюс в Карму. Желаю как можно больше подписчиков ,потому,что Вы этого полностью заслуживаете !
Perfect as usual
Cool... Well Done...!!! 🙂 -70SomethingGuy
Sam, just gotta move to Tampa, FL and you could've used my D-28. :-) Another well done cover, sir! Thank you for the great music.
I wish!
nice play🎉
Perfect bro, perfect fucking cover
פול מקרטני גאון !❤
Perfect cover
Love it
Hi Sam, If you listen carefully you can tell this song was recorded with the “Yesterday” tuning (1-step down) using mostly open chords
The open chords on this song are heard as A and D minor, not E major and A major. Only way to do that is in standard tuning playing in F
To me it still sounds like a G - Em - Am - D7 progression played on a step-down tuned guitar
@@sampopkin Ooh, I also had thought this one was a likely candidate for DGCFAD tuning. so you definitively hear the voicings as open A and Dm based on which notes are played where and what strings sound open? I certainly trust your ears!
@JDrevolver66 yes, you can hear the voicings of open A minor and D minor
Not to mention the final chord fmaj7, which is much easier in standard. Take a listen to the white album box set outtakes, where they go into a jam of blue moon, can you take me back, and step inside love. You can really hear the open d minor and fmaj7 chords here
Perfect
Well done!!!!!!
Wonderful sam❤
Love this cover ;)
Замечательно!! 🤟
Stellar job mate, as always.
Unbelievable how the feel of the tune is totally different without the voiced bass line and percussion.
As awesome as usual.🥰🥰Still waiting for Baby’s In Black.😜
Soon, i promise...
ive been dying to learn how to play this song and since i dont understand tabs, this really helps, great cover too!
Great!
Well done!
still remember that outtake of Paul singing “If you want me to, I won’t”then just stops the song, very interesting that he went with singing the bass instead.
Thanks, you helped me figure this one out.
Who knows how long I've loved you
You know I love you still
Will I wait a lonely lifetime
If you want me to, I will
For if I ever saw you
I didn't catch your name
But it never really mattered
I will always feel the same
Love you forever and forever
Love you with all my heart
Love you whenever we're together
Love you when we're apart
And when at last I find you
Your song will fill the air
Sing it loud so I can hear you
Make it easy to be near you
For the things you do endear you to me
You know I will
I will
That was such a lovely song, Sam! You did a great job covering it. I'll be covering it soon on my channel and having this video will help me play it more accurately in the future. I might add some small twists to the chord guitar part, but for everything else, I'll learn from your version. Ryohei's video give me a different feeling for how the rhythm guitar was played.
This song get very over looked off the album, one of my favorites
Great job! I always thought the rhythm guitar was tuned half a step down
It had to be standard because you hear A minor and D minor open chords. If it was Eb tuning those would be G#m and C#m bar chords
best band ever
Doo doo doo doo
That’s me singing bass vocals. 😁
Me too!
I can say, Paul somehow likes F chord
He seemed to like writing in the key of F often, actually.
Beginners crying in the corner
@@srikanthkandarpyou really had to say that, what was the point. just be nice.
@@huh19298 I don't think it's meant to be offensive or anything, just a joke
Paul McCartney - lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitars, "vocal bass"
John Lennon - percussion, maracas
Ringo Starr - bongos, cymbals
I love doing the mouth bass part to this like Paul did on the recording.
I believe this song was the primary inspiration behind Elliot Easton's guitar part in "My Best Friend's Girl".
By the cars? I love that song!
Oh wow I never made that connection. It's nearly the same!
Молодец Sam !
This is lovely and appreciated. One thing -- I always wondered whether McCartney tuned his guitar down a whole step and played it using key of G guitar positions -- similar to Yesterday. I've never listened closely enough to know, but sometimes I play it this way and it feels nice.
That’s a really great way to play the song, but unfortunately not what paul did here. Take a listen to the extended jam of this song from white album box set, and you can hear him playing in standard tuning!
@@sampopkin I assumed you had thoroughly investigated and would know. :)
Дело Джона живет и побеждает!❤
Молодец Сэм.
You should do You’re going to lose that girl next
When are you gonna do the bass cover of "I Will"?
yes
I love this song! I’m not sure if you usually do this but could you do a lesson on it? Or at least tell me where you learned it that’s fine too
I offer zoom lessons for a reasonable price if you’re interested
@@sampopkin lmao idk why I wrote this lmao I ended up actually watching what you do and I’ve learned verses 1 and 2 and the bridge
@@sampopkinjust wondering what did you do in the third verse for the walk down from d minor? also I noticed you used different c a lot like c with g on e string, c7, c major…
I had always thought Paul might be using John’s Framus 12-string upside-down for the lead. But this makes more sense.
That would be impressive!
I agree… always thought it was a 12 string acoustic, but after seeing/hearing this I totally get it!
Unlikely as he had plenty of lefty guitars to choose from
@@Henry3Studios Left-handed guitars were very difficult to find at that time and usually required a custom order, which is why all his guitars were converted right-handed guitars in the Beatles and often during early Wings too.
@@thomaspappalardo7589but John’s Framus was gifted to Gordon Waller in 1965. There is no chance of it being used anywhere on the White Album
...i think elliott easton lifted that lead fill/lick on 'best friend's girl' solo
Wow you’re so right. It’s in the same key too. One of my favorite guitar solos and riffs (the cars song)
@@sampopkin yep...FYI the cars actually originally recorded that song in the key of E; but they altered the pitch in the studio...anyway elliott is an amazing soloist and used a lot of different licks/techniques and inspirations in his playing; like the 'spirit in the sky' stuff on ''magic'...really enjoying your vids BTW; very cool and extremely well done...blessings to you brother 😎
Thanks man! I didn't know that it was sped up. Makes sense, because whenever I tried to play along to it growing up it wasnt exactly in E or F. Always had to detune
@@sampopkin haha yes...i think i accidentally discovered palm muting when playing along to that record as a teenager way back in the day 🤣 BTW your beatles stuff is so good; i just wish there was youtube back then ha 😆 keep up the great work and know that it is truly appreciated my friend ✌
Appreciate it! I should do some Cars covers too
In the upper section was the same guitar overdubbed twice or did they play 3 guitars ? Anyway the 5th Beatle was neither Brian Epstein nor George Martin, it's Sam🎉😅
Paul played three guitars total. The main rhythm guitar, then two overdubs
Yeeeeeeeeeees🕺
Paul Mccartney played this on key of E live
what are the chords?
F Am7 Gmin7 and C7 for the verse i think
So impressive ! Thank you for your nice cover. I'm playing guitar for 3 years now but I still struggle to play this kind of F7 with the pinky on the 4th fret.. Do you have any tips to improve that ?
Thanks! I would say, don’t stress too much getting a good note out of the high e string or d string. The low E, A, G and B strings are the main ones here. Sometimes trying to bar a chord perfectly on F7 shape makes it harder to stretch that pinky
Oh right I see ! Thank you for your advice :)@@sampopkin
Thanks for the isolated tracks, now where is the cover?
What do you mean?
@@sampopkin It was a joke saying this cover sounds exactly like the original! you outdid yourself
@@avYhz5536 haha thanks!
I heard Paul played the rhythm on the record with a capo on 1 - was that not the case Sam? I see you aren’t. Beautifully done regardless! ❤🎉
No capo! I confirmed this listening to the isolated track, and white album box set outtakes. Thanks!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hey Ably House! I’m trying to release my own cover of If I Fell but my video got blocked my UMG. How did you manage to keep your video up? I have no interest in monetization but I would like the video to be viewable on TH-cam. Your advice would be great appreciated! Thanks!
I’m not Ably House. But I would say use isolated tracks of the Beatles instead of just the mp3 of the song
how the hell does that riff work at the end of the verses! i can not for the life of me figure it out. It sounds like a country riff but i can't get it to sound right
It’s alternate picking, a little tricky. I offer zoom lessons if you’re interested
please do the mother nature's son and blackbird
Where's the cover?
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Bass cover?
Paul did mouth bass 😂
I will bass cover?
Paul sung mouth bass on this one 😂
@@sampopkin that's why 😂😂😂
Theres's something i'n not understanding... if one guitar is no capo and the other capo 1... why does it seems like u are using the same positions?
There are two lead guitars with capos on, doubling up. At one point, those are the only two guitars you see on screen
I hate to ask but could you do she came in through the bathroom window? The anthology version
Yeah! I plan on doing Anthology stuff soon. I have already covered If You've Got Trouble
So this song, sung in the first person, is about a guy who fantasizes his whole life about a perfect woman he is in love with, but has never found (hence the title, "I Will"). Have I got that right?
I think you’ve nailed it! And he got together with Linda (the love of his life) only a few months after writing the song
Bass cover next... 😆
Noice
Did Paul manually double track the solo, or was it ADT?
Pretty sure it’s manually double tracked
@@sampopkinalways thought ADT, as I noticed he applied the same sound to Goodbye on Mary Hopkin's recording. Maybe it was a combo of ADT and manual doubling, a là George on Fixing a Hole?
@@elirosen1391 yeah that’s possible!
What strings are you using?
Martin Monel 12’s
i know for a fact this song was painful to record. paul's strumming is always a episode of jackass😭
it is indeed a painful song to play all the way through
I knew it was this, I just didn't say 😉
I sing this to my cat all the time. Her name is Willow.
Hi!! I would like to contact you. By email. I'm musician and also love Beatles songs
samueltaftpopkin@gmail.com
you shoulld've also done the bass cover 😂