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- John’s mesmerizing guitar hook paired with George’s tight lead guitar make for a great guitar song from The Beatles’ Rooftop Concert! The two guitarists play their typical 1969 instruments: John with his sanded Epiphone Casino and George with his rosewood Fender Telecaster. John’s main A to D guitar chord riff varies throughout the song, highlighting specific mood shifts in the lyrics. George likewise varies in his lead riffs and switches between his pick and fingers at times. Both guitarists change their pickup selection at key points in the song.
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“I’ve Got A Feeling” opens with John playing the main riff.. The first riff of the first verse has a slightly muted high chord strum (0:05) followed by an E note pluck instead of the usual low A. Otherwise, John is incredibly consistent in replicating the nuanced picking throughout the rest of the first verse, interspersing in an A power chord on the first strum of the riff. A quick open strum (0:28) carries him into the first “chorus”, which is just single strums on various chords.
John introduces a new variation of the riff in the second verse, adding in more strumming but still maintaining the integrity of the original riff. Every repetition of the riff throughout the second verse contains micro-variations, which I was careful to replicate in my cover. At 0:43 he emphasises the C# note before strumming the D chord four times. The next few riffs, he plays two A power chords before picking out individual D and F# notes with some strums. At 0:52 he lightly strums the A chord before moving to the D chord. The final iteration (1:00) sounds more like the original riff, with the three A note octaves played clearly.
Transitioning into the bridge, John switches to the bridge pickup and blasts out two twangy versions of the riff. The second time (1:09), he plays a C# note instead of the high A and plays the open G string on the D section of the riff for a sweet mixolydian sound. In the bridge section, John hammers out the chords, pulsing his fingers to create a chopping effect (1:15).
Switching back to the middle pickup for the third verse (1:30), John plays four versions of the original riff. For the fifth (1:40), he plays two low A notes before some light strums on the D chord. At 1:47, he strums the entire A chord.
In the fourth verse, which he sings, John radically changes the mood of the riff. He typically starts the riff by playing A, then E, and then some light strums. For the D chord section, he appreciates the entire chord upward before finishing on a D note, which he sometimes pulls off to C#. I tried to replicate these micro-variations in this section as accurately as possible. Before the “breakdown section”, John plays an alternating bassline of A-strum-E-strum, switching to his bridge pickup before the low E note (2:30). In the breakdown, John plays triplets starting low, walking up to a higher chord position.
Before the final verse, John plays a distorted, augmented version of the main riff, using a D# instead of the usual D (2:39). Sounds heavy, man! I believe this was no accident, as the same variation can be heard in the second rooftop performance (which can be heard in the closing section of “I’ve Got A Feeling” on the Let It Be... Naked album).
In the final verse, John switches back to the middle pickup selection and plays a largely strummed version of the main riff. At (2:48) he emphasizes the F# note and at (2:52) he pulls off from D to C#. In the closing section, John switches back to the bridge pickup and plays the same triplets. At the last high slide (3:21), he pauses before descending, then closes with a slide into an A7 chord and a final high E note.
George comes in at the first chorus, doubling John’s insistent A7 sliding notes (0:28). He performs a mostly chromatic walkup (0:32) from a low E to a D (missing a G# along the way for timing), sliding into the D note the first variation. He then transitions to the second verse playing the classic lead riff which slides from a higher A chord shape to a lower one before suspending the D chord with G. On the first version (0:35) he does not really play the high D note.
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Instruments Used:
John Lennon Guitar: 2001 Epiphone Casino Standard (modified)
George Harrison Guitar: 2016 Fender American Standard Telecaster
Amplifier: 1995 Fender Custom Vibrolux Reverb
