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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2016 1:22:30 GMT -5
I'm not sure what the level of interest is amongst fans when it comes to the musical compostion of Beatles songs.
I found this youtube clip to be very educational when it comes to Beatles harmony and song construction.
I hope someone else likes it as much as i did..
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Post by lowbasso on Mar 29, 2016 12:59:16 GMT -5
I'm not sure what the level of interest is amongst fans when it comes to the musical compostion of Beatles songs. I found this youtube clip to be very educational when it comes to Beatles harmony and song construction. I hope someone else likes it as much as i did.. Enjoyed the program very much. Well put together. However there is one glaring omission that can be summed up in two words; George Martin. George is only mentioned once at 43 minutes into the documentary, and only in the sense of as an engineer who spooled tapes through a machine to aid in the creation of the song Tomorrow Never Knows. I can't believe the producers and the narrator of the film who is quite knowledgeable and talented in his own regard could leave George Martin out of the picture when it comes to how the music of The Beatles, particularly Lennon & McCartney was created as well as recorded. The Beatles were not musically schooled and thus, in spite of their incredible talent to invent melody, lyrics, and harmonies, without George Martin's highly musically-educated background, what emerged from the studio could never have reached the sophisticated levels described in the documentary. I have always wished I could have been a fly on the wall in the studio when The Beatles were recording. Because we rarely get to hear aurally the discussions that went on between the band members and George Martin in the control booth as a song progressed from it's presentation by its composer, whether it be Lennon, McCartney, or Harrison, to the finished product thereby determining how much each band member contributed to the development of the song as well as Martin's imput. We get snippets in pirate or bootleg recordings of some of that creative process, but never enough to fully evaluate who gets what credit for the finished product. Thus we have to rely on interviews with the band members and George Martin to tell us how a song evolved. If ever there were a reason to call George Martin the 3rd Beatle, it would be because I believe almost every song in the Beatles Catalogue, especially from Rubber Soul onward should be accurately labeled Lennon/McCartney/Martin as composers, or call him the 2nd Beatle in Harrison/Martin works where applicable. Even as early as the song "Please, Please Me" you get Martin encouraging the band to change the tempo of the song in order to get it to a point it would be their first #1 hit on the charts. The Beatles as composers were pioneers in their compositions and deserve much credit as some of the most influential composers of the 20th century in Popular Music, but without George Martin's imput, how might their songs have sounded? Very few of the post Beatles era compositions by Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison as solo artists seem to reach the level of innovation or quality as their works they created within the framework of The Beatles. Is that because without George Martin in the studio with them, helping them, making suggestions, orchestrating their ideas, their solo music never quite achieved the qualitative and creative level of their output as Beatles? The Beatles were giants in the composition of Popular Music in the 20th Century. But so was George Martin. The mix of the two entities is what made their music move to the level of the classics that came before them in the entire history of Western Music. Thanks for posting the video! As you watch it you can't help but think of George Martin in just about every example of Beatle music they talk about. Wish they hadn't completely omitted that aspect....
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