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@@colebrown8293 They couldn't read sheet music, but the producer or engineer didn't tell them what to play. They were very capable of playing their instruments. If you asked John to play an E, C & D chord, for example, he'd be able to play it straight off!! Nobody told em what to play, they taught them about the recording studio.😁👍👍👍👍💕💓💖
There's a moment somewhere in the past where you thought 'I know, I'll....' and that moment must have been coupled with a distinct smattering of confidence that you could actually pull it off. To be the person that can take thoughts such as those and have gravitas on this scale alone - before even pushing a key or strumming a single chord, makes you a frickin genius. What a wonderful world you must live in. Bravo dude.
I think I had that record in my hand within about 48 hours of its release to the public, and I remember putting it on my very inexpensive turntable in my bedroom at the age of 14, and I was in awe that this was the same bunch that had appeared on Ed Sullivan three years earlier in February of 1964. I was mesmerized. Hearing you re-create that song brought me right back to those moments…. so thank you.
NO COMMENTS ? Let me be the first to say I was born in 1950 and I totally feel ya..... By 62, 1962 I was hooked, when Canada got the first release of "Radio Beatles" IN THE AMERICAS..., COME ON AND WORK IT ON OUT...TWIST AND SHOUT, Bennett.
My Uncle was a fanatic fan. He used to buy 2 copies. He was in a band in the 60s in Liverpool. (ha, wasnt every1!). He passed away in the 90s and my aunt took the entire collection and sold it for buttons, think she just wanted rid so money wasnt the issue.. I wonder how much all the beatles record from the 60s, still sealed are worth?
It is insane that they went from A Hard Days Night to this in less than a stint in high school. It's mind boggling, It always blows my mind how much they did in 8 years
My experience was almost exactly the same. I was ten or eleven and bought it and ran home to play on the close-and-play. First day must have played the album 50 times.
Me too, but for different reasons. When I was around 10, I lived on the first floor of a mid rise apartment complex with buildings that faced each other. I was woken up one night by a sound that I can only describe as a 'foomf' sound, heavy and muted. I looked out my window but didn't see anything so I went back to sleep. When I got up for school in the morning there were police outside of the apartment milling around. My neighbor had went into his car late that night, wrapped wet bluejeans around his head to muffle the sound and shot himself with a shotgun.
I hate they did what they did with it. Such a beautiful start, only to be jarred so badly and sent to a whimsical weird section. Is what it is. I can't help but to move on after the first section ends
Agreed. I've heard plenty of attempts to cover this song, and while many of them are excellent (including this one -- the singer was great, and David's playing was spot on), no one can quite nail that weary, sullen tone like John did. Probably the closest I've seen is Chris Cornell's version of this song. While he doesn't sound much like John, he "felt" the song better than anyone I've ever seen play it other than John himself. It's sad, but beautiful in a way, that you almost have to be a tortured soul to get certain songs across in that way.
I get what you're saying. The middle section is pretty abrupt-- but I think it makes the song kinda cinematic. It works well for the music video and also adds a nice break to make you appreciate Lennon's part.@@Breakstuff5050
I was 7 when this came out and had been a Beatles fan since 1964, before the Ed Sullivan appearance. I still can't tell you all how much this one piece of music struck me and continues to do so over the years. This video has evidently introduced me to someone who is equally impacted! Superb job David Bennett!
Predictable the hardest part is the strings crescendo. Even a single violin fills out the frequency range with overtones and that original recording layered a hundred and twenty!
This video is so great, not because the finished version is good, but because compared to the actual recording, it's bad; what you're demonstrating brilliantly is that EVEN IF you and your friends had magically come up with this amazing composition first, it takes so much beyond the composition to pull off the magic the Beatles pulled off. Tangibles like recording techniques, but also intangibles like band chemistry, the sound of THEM, the mistakes, the little moments, all add up to what's one of the most magical songs ever, one that no one else could have made even if they tried.
This band is without a doubt the greatest recording artists of our time. They are in the same class as Beethoven, Mozart and other musicians who changes the way people listen to music. We won’t be around to listen to the next wave of incredible musicians but I’m sure the Beatles and other great composers will be brought forward to challenge the new era of greats!
My own first hearing of this back in 1967 was one of being rendered speechless. Revolver had been challenging, Strawberry Fields a harbinger but Sgt Pepper was just so rich, so full of ideas both musically and lyrically that it was (to borrow a George phrase) all too much. Music was never the same again and arguably this was true on a much` broader stage as well.
It's unfortunate when a band reaches such a pinnacle. When individual members can't push forward any more as a team, things tend to fray, like the Beatles or the Police, both bands of which went out at the top of their game.
Truly an underrated Beatles song. Though it's sometimes overshadowed by Tomorrow Never Knows and Strawberry Fields Forever, Day in the Life honestly stands on its own as one of their best
I don't think it gets overshadowed by Tomorrow Never Knows very much. Tomorrow Never Knows was ahead of its time, but this track is much more ambitious.
Incredible job - I could begin to fathom doing the "normal" parts of the song but to be able to recreate the mad linking section so accurately shows great skill. Well done!
That was awesome David, so thank you for yet another brilliant video. I was in boarding school when that came out aged 15. Being a school day, it looked like we couldnt get the record until Saturday afternoon, by which time they'd be sold out. So my friend John and I skipped lunch, took our mufti clothes and changed in the hedge (uniforms in town on a Thursday would be too dangerous), raced into town, got the record, came back, changed and went to the 2:40 class, having missed only Maths. Sounds so out of date to do something like that now.
i did the same thing in 2004 with Green Day’s American Idiot, snuck out of school with a friend to run to our favorite music store and get the album, we got on a bus to go downtown and we were so afraid of being recognized by someone lol, we bought the CD and returned for the second to last period we had someone lie to the teacher about being in the infirmary and they didn’t even check if we were there, only missed one period
Paul actually wrote the music to the song, it was something he had come up with that had no melody or lyrics, which is why Paul played the piano on the song. John's melody of the verse and lyrics are what really elevate the song and probably make this the best cowritten song in the Beatles catalog. Paul also wrote the Bridge tune and lyrics.
The band Phish does an incredible live rendition of A Day In The Life. Their ability to create sonic tension and dissonance is used incredibly well during the two orchestral bridges. Highly recommended listening!
That was fantastic. Freaking spot on. And this is my favorite Beatles tune. I thoroughly enjoyed it.All parts were excellent, but the drums sounded especially true to the original. Thanks again for putting your time and energy into this.
Hey David - Amazingly wonderful. This is one of my all-time fave Beatles songs and it was fantastic to hear your version. Not at all an easy recreation 😲 👍
My favorite Beatles song because of the 2 amazing melodies by Paul and John with the arrangement. Nice Job! Every time I thought I thought I heard something inaccurate I went to the original to compare but it was only a few times. The voice and tone is very good. The only things I would recommend is 1. add a little more reverb to the drums. 2. Raise the piano and lower the bass a little in the beginning. 3. Increase the sound of a trombone at the ending symphony parts. For example , if you listen to Wagner's Tannhauser at the very end, that use of Trombone is what you want for those powerful brass symphony parts. I just realized something else. At the very end where you are counting and you say "four" I heard that in the original and thought someone was saying "Paul" but they were actually saying the count. Thanks for that interesting background story on the counting.
David's done a great job here but if you really want to hear and see a live cover of the song AND also the albums The Beatles never played live I suggest you listen to Dutch band "The Analogues" . Here's the song in question th-cam.com/video/sCbZ15JpxPg/w-d-xo.html
A simply fantastic job. If anything, it further illustrates the pure genius of the Beatles having created this amazing piece way back in 1967 with the help of their genius engineer
I don't know why but I have always found the part where they are counting out bars before the transition cool. it just helps to build tension. This song really is a masterpiece. There are a lot of other Beatles songs that I consider my favourites but it is very difficult to argue against this being the objective best, it just has so many amazing groundbreaking ideas all in the one song.
In your music theory behind "A Day in the Life," note how the song has an unusual structure insofar as it's based on 5's. Most songs are based on 4 lines, rhymed. ABAB structure. In "A Day in the Life," each stanza actually has FIVE lines. "I read the news today, oh boy/about a lucky man who made the grade/A crowd of people stood and stared/They'd seen his face before/Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords." That's 5 lines. McCartney's bridge also has five lines: "Woke up, fell out of bed/Dragged a comb across my head/Found my way downstairs and had a cup/And looking up/ I noticed I was late". Likewise the horns after John's haunting "Ahhhh-ahhhh-ahhh segment" (where he sounds like he's wailing in the void) are composed of five booming notes. . . . The 5-based structure of the song is only one of the many anomalies about it. But I've never heard anyone draw attention to it. In physics in Antiquity, there were four elements: air, fire, water and earth. It wasn't until alchemy that a fifth element was added--the quintessence.
Amazing! Up till that last chord. A difficult song to recreate done flawlessly. I don't recall having heard A Day In the Life by anybody besides the fab 4. Congrats David!
This is great! Well done. One small fact left out is the orchestra were aloud to play at their own speed which also is why it's impossible to recreate. In other words one player can get to E with in two bars and just keep playing it and someone else may have taken all 24 bars to get there. Multiply that by 40 players. Paul said the strings tended to stay nsync and brass did whatever they wanted.
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@@colebrown8293 They couldn't read sheet music, but the producer or engineer didn't tell them what to play. They were very capable of playing their instruments. If you asked John to play an E, C & D chord, for example, he'd be able to play it straight off!! Nobody told em what to play, they taught them about the recording studio.😁👍👍👍👍💕💓💖
What?
Are you one of those people doing sales under the guise of folks love for music?
@@USA92 huh?
I always hear 'Never could see any other way' at the end of it
I'd like to know where to purchase your T-shirt mate!
A day in the life was started on Thursday 19th January 1967 and on Friday 20th January they came in again to work on it. Excellent timing.
Really!? Wow, I did not intend to do that. That’s amazing 😂
Funny how it's also Thursday 19 and Friday 20 this year
@@gilbertochavez8603 that's
what the guy said
@@fungusjoe5005 Sharp as a bowling ball, that lad.
I was born right in the middle of the making of this song (not at EMI Studio 2, but in a boring hospital). 😂
There's a moment somewhere in the past where you thought 'I know, I'll....' and that moment must have been coupled with a distinct smattering of confidence that you could actually pull it off. To be the person that can take thoughts such as those and have gravitas on this scale alone - before even pushing a key or strumming a single chord, makes you a frickin genius. What a wonderful world you must live in. Bravo dude.
I think I had that record in my hand within about 48 hours of its release to the public, and I remember putting it on my very inexpensive turntable in my bedroom at the age of 14, and I was in awe that this was the same bunch that had appeared on Ed Sullivan three years earlier in February of 1964. I was mesmerized. Hearing you re-create that song brought me right back to those moments…. so thank you.
NO COMMENTS ? Let me be the first to say I was born in 1950 and I totally feel ya..... By 62, 1962 I was hooked, when Canada got the first release of "Radio Beatles" IN THE AMERICAS..., COME ON AND WORK IT ON OUT...TWIST AND SHOUT, Bennett.
My Uncle was a fanatic fan. He used to buy 2 copies. He was in a band in the 60s in Liverpool. (ha, wasnt every1!). He passed away in the 90s and my aunt took the entire collection and sold it for buttons, think she just wanted rid so money wasnt the issue.. I wonder how much all the beatles record from the 60s, still sealed are worth?
It is insane that they went from A Hard Days Night to this in less than a stint in high school. It's mind boggling, It always blows my mind how much they did in 8 years
My experience was almost exactly the same. I was ten or eleven and bought it and ran home to play on the close-and-play. First day must have played the album 50 times.
@@nateds7326 7 years.
John's opening lines on this song freaking kill me every time. So sullen yet beautiful. Timeless.
Me too, but for different reasons. When I was around 10, I lived on the first floor of a mid rise apartment complex with buildings that faced each other. I was woken up one night by a sound that I can only describe as a 'foomf' sound, heavy and muted. I looked out my window but didn't see anything so I went back to sleep. When I got up for school in the morning there were police outside of the apartment milling around. My neighbor had went into his car late that night, wrapped wet bluejeans around his head to muffle the sound and shot himself with a shotgun.
Especially on the first take, the way he sings "oh boy", it should have been in the final cut.
I hate they did what they did with it. Such a beautiful start, only to be jarred so badly and sent to a whimsical weird section.
Is what it is. I can't help but to move on after the first section ends
Agreed. I've heard plenty of attempts to cover this song, and while many of them are excellent (including this one -- the singer was great, and David's playing was spot on), no one can quite nail that weary, sullen tone like John did. Probably the closest I've seen is Chris Cornell's version of this song. While he doesn't sound much like John, he "felt" the song better than anyone I've ever seen play it other than John himself. It's sad, but beautiful in a way, that you almost have to be a tortured soul to get certain songs across in that way.
I get what you're saying. The middle section is pretty abrupt-- but I think it makes the song kinda cinematic. It works well for the music video and also adds a nice break to make you appreciate Lennon's part.@@Breakstuff5050
Anyone who attempts to recreate the Sgt Pepper Inner Groove section deserves mad respect. Just incredible work David. Loved ❤it.
I would love to see you try to remake Tomorrow never knows
Oooh yes, the samples in that one are crazy!
how about i am the walrus?
Revolution 9
@@davidevans3227 he already did
Listening the final piece and seeing all your work, we could realize how incredible was The Beatles!
And how incredible David is!
@@Mrbeahz1 Indeed!
Yes including George Martin. All analogue of course. Well done to DB recreating this.
I was 7 when this came out and had been a Beatles fan since 1964, before the Ed Sullivan appearance. I still can't tell you all how much this one piece of music struck me and continues to do so over the years. This video has evidently introduced me to someone who is equally impacted! Superb job David Bennett!
Bravo. Whoa. The last vocal passage…moved me to tears.
Amazing job on a complex and legendary track
That was incredible.
The respect you all showed to this masterpiece makes me so happy.
Well done.
That's a lovely cover. Great job covering the musical genius of the Beatles. Not easy.
Well done. Excellent work and explanation.
7 seconds short on the final E chord...Not bad and a great job recreating a true masterpiece of production.
awesome job David, you rock
Thanks!
Predictable the hardest part is the strings crescendo. Even a single violin fills out the frequency range with overtones and that original recording layered a hundred and twenty!
Phenomenal job putting this together. I felt like a young pup all over again listening to the Beatles on the radio.
This video is so great, not because the finished version is good, but because compared to the actual recording, it's bad; what you're demonstrating brilliantly is that EVEN IF you and your friends had magically come up with this amazing composition first, it takes so much beyond the composition to pull off the magic the Beatles pulled off. Tangibles like recording techniques, but also intangibles like band chemistry, the sound of THEM, the mistakes, the little moments, all add up to what's one of the most magical songs ever, one that no one else could have made even if they tried.
David, that was brilliant. Simply brilliant, thank you.
This band is without a doubt the greatest recording artists of our time. They are in the same class as Beethoven, Mozart and other musicians who changes the way people listen to music. We won’t be around to listen to the next wave of incredible musicians but I’m sure the Beatles and other great composers will be brought forward to challenge the new era of greats!
Fair play for having a go at re-painting the Sistine Chapel. But strip away orchestras and alarm clocks and you've nailed the core song. Respect.
One big wowww...simply fantastic what you have created David. Spot on!
Thanks!!
@@DavidBennettPiano you´re welcome :)
My own first hearing of this back in 1967 was one of being rendered speechless. Revolver had been challenging, Strawberry Fields a harbinger but Sgt Pepper was just so rich, so full of ideas both musically and lyrically that it was (to borrow a George phrase) all too much. Music was never the same again and arguably this was true on a much` broader stage as well.
I agree, I was 16 yrs old and I can still remember the feeling of astonishment at what I was listening to.
It's unfortunate when a band reaches such a pinnacle. When individual members can't push forward any more as a team, things tend to fray, like the Beatles or the Police, both bands of which went out at the top of their game.
Superb. The drummer was as close to Ringo as I've ever heard. The vocalist was 10/10 and, if course, the instrumentation was wonderful.
Amazing playing and production on this. The orchestral swell is perfect.
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Truly an underrated Beatles song. Though it's sometimes overshadowed by Tomorrow Never Knows and Strawberry Fields Forever, Day in the Life honestly stands on its own as one of their best
I don't think it gets overshadowed by Tomorrow Never Knows very much. Tomorrow Never Knows was ahead of its time, but this track is much more ambitious.
underrated? many regard this as the best beatles song of their entire catalog
Your analysis, detail, research, synthesis and final performances are incredible!
Thank you!
Incredible job - I could begin to fathom doing the "normal" parts of the song but to be able to recreate the mad linking section so accurately shows great skill. Well done!
That was awesome David, so thank you for yet another brilliant video.
I was in boarding school when that came out aged 15. Being a school day, it looked like we couldnt get the record until Saturday afternoon, by which time they'd be sold out. So my friend John and I skipped lunch, took our mufti clothes and changed in the hedge (uniforms in town on a Thursday would be too dangerous), raced into town, got the record, came back, changed and went to the 2:40 class, having missed only Maths.
Sounds so out of date to do something like that now.
i did the same thing in 2004 with Green Day’s American Idiot, snuck out of school with a friend to run to our favorite music store and get the album, we got on a bus to go downtown and we were so afraid of being recognized by someone lol, we bought the CD and returned for the second to last period we had someone lie to the teacher about being in the infirmary and they didn’t even check if we were there, only missed one period
Wow, I have the privilege to listen to this on monitor speakers in my home studio, and I have to say, it sounds lovely.
Great job all - sounds really fantastic
Nailed it! Very impressive. Great work.
Amazing!! Absolutely perfect 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That was awesome. Great work guys. 👍
Watching this made me appreciate a masterpiece even more somehow.
Awesome , Great Job!!!!!! thoroughly enjoyed your rendition!
Amazing-This is so interesting. The Beatles songs often were not simple.
Dude I can’t state this hard enough you fucking killed it! I am amazed by your talent and knowledge in music theory. Great job Mr. Bennett.
Brilliantly done.Just the best!😎
Mate, ur just too good! This was f*cking great!!!!
Thank you!!
My oldest brother recently passed away, our whole family are Beatle fans and my brother, John was The Man. I like to think that they have met now😊
Great job. Sounded fantastic
Lots of incredible covers online.
This one is the peak. The BEST BEATLE COVER for what is the BEST BEATLE SONG!
congratulations on that! impressive! great job.
Paul actually wrote the music to the song, it was something he had come up with that had no melody or lyrics, which is why Paul played the piano on the song. John's melody of the verse and lyrics are what really elevate the song and probably make this the best cowritten song in the Beatles catalog. Paul also wrote the Bridge tune and lyrics.
The band Phish does an incredible live rendition of A Day In The Life. Their ability to create sonic tension and dissonance is used incredibly well during the two orchestral bridges. Highly recommended listening!
86 the singer and this is beautiful!!!
The vocal transition from Paul's bit to Lennon's was actually an improvement, well done ✅👌
Absolutely superb effort!
Absolutely wonderful!
LOVE THIS Nice one you absolute legend.
Great job gentlemen!! Love it!!!!
I love how you pieced all this together 🤗😊🌹
That was fantastic. Freaking spot on. And this is my favorite Beatles tune. I thoroughly enjoyed it.All parts were excellent, but the drums sounded especially true to the original. Thanks again for putting your time and energy into this.
Brilliant and splendid Guys!
dude your videos are so good. I love The Beatles so much too and it is cool to see you make so much stuff about them. I also love Radiohead.
Well done you are all very gifted
This E chord in the end sends shivers every single time. Every single time... Beatles Magnum Opus for sure
Hey David - Amazingly wonderful. This is one of my all-time fave Beatles songs and it was fantastic to hear your version. Not at all an easy recreation 😲 👍
My favorite Beatles song because of the 2 amazing melodies by Paul and John with the arrangement. Nice Job! Every time I thought I thought I heard something inaccurate I went to the original to compare but it was only a few times. The voice and tone is very good. The only things I would recommend is 1. add a little more reverb to the drums. 2. Raise the piano and lower the bass a little in the beginning. 3. Increase the sound of a trombone at the ending symphony parts. For example , if you listen to Wagner's Tannhauser at the very end, that use of Trombone is what you want for those powerful brass symphony parts.
I just realized something else. At the very end where you are counting and you say "four" I heard that in the original and thought someone was saying "Paul" but they were actually saying the count. Thanks for that interesting background story on the counting.
Well done… my favorite Beatles song!
Amazingly done bro respect 💯
Best cover of this song I’ve heard so far. It’s literally almost spot on. Good job and great video!
Thanks 😊
David's done a great job here but if you really want to hear and see a live cover of the song AND also the albums The Beatles never played live I suggest you listen to Dutch band "The Analogues" . Here's the song in question th-cam.com/video/sCbZ15JpxPg/w-d-xo.html
My favorite Beatles song. Bravo! 😊🥰
A simply fantastic job. If anything, it further illustrates the pure genius of the Beatles having created this amazing piece way back in 1967 with the help of their genius engineer
I don't know why but I have always found the part where they are counting out bars before the transition cool. it just helps to build tension. This song really is a masterpiece. There are a lot of other Beatles songs that I consider my favourites but it is very difficult to argue against this being the objective best, it just has so many amazing groundbreaking ideas all in the one song.
In your music theory behind "A Day in the Life," note how the song has an unusual structure insofar as it's based on 5's. Most songs are based on 4 lines, rhymed. ABAB structure. In "A Day in the Life," each stanza actually has FIVE lines. "I read the news today, oh boy/about a lucky man who made the grade/A crowd of people stood and stared/They'd seen his face before/Nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords." That's 5 lines. McCartney's bridge also has five lines: "Woke up, fell out of bed/Dragged a comb across my head/Found my way downstairs and had a cup/And looking up/ I noticed I was late". Likewise the horns after John's haunting "Ahhhh-ahhhh-ahhh segment" (where he sounds like he's wailing in the void) are composed of five booming notes. . . . The 5-based structure of the song is only one of the many anomalies about it. But I've never heard anyone draw attention to it. In physics in Antiquity, there were four elements: air, fire, water and earth. It wasn't until alchemy that a fifth element was added--the quintessence.
This is excellent. I hadn’t realized until this video how restrained but perfect the drum part is for this song.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing 😃
One of my favorite songs
Truly excellent David & co. Bravo! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Absolutely stunning! Excellent work.
Brave and great effort - I can't imagine anyone else doing a better cover of this song. Well done!
Maybe these people? th-cam.com/video/r-tZg4kj8Ys/w-d-xo.html
@@topologyrob pretty impressive
Bravo young man. Love to see young people digging the music I was raised on.
Bravo! Congratulations from Brazil!
Wow, really well done!
Thank you 😊
Bravoooooo, great musicians!!!!
I actually like the crescendos better than the ones on the original. Great work all around!
the singer ruined it with the annoying vocal flicker thing at the end of each phrase, ruins the energy of the song
You mean vibrato? lol
Maravilloso, insuperable, Congratulations to all of you.
Amazing! Up till that last chord. A difficult song to recreate done flawlessly. I don't recall having heard A Day In the Life by anybody besides the fab 4. Congrats David!
This was stellar man!
Amazing video as always!!!
One of my favorite songs of all time. Beautiful rendition!
Beautiful man just beautiful
WOW
This is great! Well done. One small fact left out is the orchestra were aloud to play at their own speed which also is why it's impossible to recreate. In other words one player can get to E with in two bars and just keep playing it and someone else may have taken all 24 bars to get there. Multiply that by 40 players. Paul said the strings tended to stay nsync and brass did whatever they wanted.
Awesome work, band great too.
THAT was fantastic!
bloody fantastic mate
*_That was SUPERB!!!_*
Great work really loved seeing the whole thing love The Beatles
*never goos be any other way
You pulled it off! Honestly I like this version as much as the Beatles. Great job! 👍
Beautiful!
Awesome. Nice work, man.
Interesting that, in the orchestral bridge between Paul's bit and the last verse, you've got 'John' doing the AHHHs. Which, of course, it is.
i remember listening to this when i was a little kid on the record player and it was mind blowing . you did a great job , very brave cover !
That's gave me the feels. To watch each instrument being played really helps to understand their genius. Well done 🐛
Bravo! Quanti ricordi... sembra ieri. Thank you!
bravo David