I Feel Fine was recorded on 18 October 1964 and was released as a single on 23 November 1964, marking one of the earliest uses of guitar feedback, most notably through a Gibson J-160E. On this cover I'm using a 1957 Gibson J-160E and a 1963 Gretsch Tennessean (Both with Pyramid Gold Flatwound 12s). Trying to match the tone was the biggest challenge here, as the Beatles were recording through Vox AC100 amps, while I've got an AC30. I'm gradually learning the differences between the two, but generally the lower the wattage on a Vox amp, the duller it will sound. I tried to turn up the treble to compensate for this while trying not to sacrifice too much low end in exchange. As you can see in the video, I was able to get a similar sounding feedback on my J-160e by leaning it back against a bass amp (Fender Rumble 25), which is supposedly how the Beatles stumbled upon the sound in the studio. I couldn't get as much sustain as the original though, likely because they were using a much louder/higher wattage bass amp. On the actual song however, I believe John is holding the guitar, presumably fairly close to the bass amp. Unfortunately I do not have four arms, so I couldn't do this. Big thanks to Sam Popkin and Mattiboo's videos on the guitar parts which were a big help in getting all the details, not sure if I got all of them exactly right, but it's pretty close. Go check out their channels if you haven't yet. Especially big thanks to Michael Sokil who recorded the drums for this which I definitely wouldn't have been able to do on my own! Definitely check out his channel as well if you haven't! John Lennon - Lead Vocals, Lead/Rhythm Guitar (1964 Gibson J160E) Paul McCartney - Bass Guitar (1963 Hofner 500/1), harmony vocals George Harrison - Lead Guitar (1963 Gretsch 6119 Tennessean), harmony vocals Ringo Starr - Drums (1964 Ludwig Super Classic Black Oyster Pearl) (taken from http://www.beatlesebooks.com/i-feel-fine ) I played the Gibson, Gretsch, and Hofner through my Vox AC30CC2X, and I recorded everything with my WA-47 condenser mic. Here's the song request list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvfYU4gYdzPSDHx5Uum_aj5eQWAhJ0jvs-9p0iiugSY/edit Feel free to comment your song requests, and ask any questions you have about chords or notes. Thanks for watching! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWcL6dGCgLU

“You Won’t Have To Cry” is the fourth track off of the Byrds first album, Mr. Tambourine Man, recorded on 14 April 1965, and released on 21 June 1965. This song is one of the few credited to both Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn. It’s a very interesting chord progression (https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the_byrds/you_wont_have_to_cry_chords_62988 - this is mostly accurate) and I would say that it rivals some of the album tracks from Help! that the Beatles were recording at this time. It’s interesting to note that the Beatles recording the title track “Help!” the day before this. The important chord in “You Won’t Have To Cry” is the major II chord which is the F# because they use it in a nice V to I chain of the vi to II to V to I to IV (C#m F# B E A) and then during the bridge they mix it up a bit by doing a different V to I chain of (B E A D) and this is complemented I suppose by starting and ending the song with an E7 so that we get the D note which is reminiscent of the bridge. I think the strangest part of the song is leading into the bridge, Roger McGuinn plays an F on top of his F# making it an F#maj7. This part stumped me because that note isn’t in the key they’re playing. I guess it’s acting similarly to the F in an Aaug with the progression being something like A to Aaug to D. I’m not exactly sure; it kind of works with the song though. Concerning the intro E7 to the song, Gary Jacob plays this as an E9, with I think is wrong. It does sound very close, but we hear a B octave being played on the 12 string at the beginning and there would be no reason to play that right before that E9 voicing because that string would be open. So I played an E7 with the 77999(10) voicing on McGuinn’s guitar because I definitely hear the D on top. In the right channel I think I hear Crosby’s Gretsch playing an E7 with the x7675x voicing. Crosby’s rhythm playing is very percussive as usual and he lets loose a couple of times on the B7 chords. I've panned the Gretsch to the right, the Rickenbacker to the left. The song is playing with low volume in the background and the vocals are isolated being played a little louder than that. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5VRfD1j93M

Care of Cell 44 was recorded on 16-17 August 1967 at EMI, and was initially released as a single on 20 November 1967, then was released as the first track on Odessey and Oracle on 19 April 1968. I'm guessing that Rod Argent is playing the famous Mrs. Mills tack piano here, which the Beatles used several times, but I'm not entirely sure. It's definitely not a harpsichord as I initially thought. Given that this song was recorded in 4 takes (the 1st being a false start), we can listen to Rod Argent's playing on take 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i5ZRXn6iC8 and realize how radically different the piano is. Sometimes Rod plays higher up on the keyboard and sometimes lower, so a lot of this arrangement seems to be fairly improvised, minus the bridge and the intro. Some of Rod's voicing's on the turnaround after the silent vocal bits are very buried in the mix so I made my best guess as to what he was doing. Near the end of the song it sounds as though he's doing D C Bm Am rather than the D C G D, but it's very hard to tell. It didn't really seem like the guitar was following that though, so I kept the guitar doing D C G D, despite the dissonance (the guitar's somewhat buried in the original mix too) Paul Atkinson is likely playing his Rickenbacker 330 through a Vox AC30 as he can be seen doing in the session photos for Time of the Season, recorded about a month later. (here's a few of those session photos: http://youmusthearthisalbum.blogspot.com/2019/07/odessey-oracle-vs-sgt-peppers-lonely.html ) Chris White is playing a Fender Precision Bass (as can also be seen in the session photos for later in the month, but I'm not sure if this would be direct or through an amp. The Zombies would have likely used the same Mellotron MKII that the Beatles had used on Strawberry Fields Forever and other songs, which if I remember right was actually John's that he had brought into the studio. Fun fact: there's a little section of dissonance between the Mellotron and the piano during the bridge at 2:10 where the Mellotron plays a G major while the piano is doing G minor. Big thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@UCpuQrDLTijwSh_cUc12iA7g for playing Drums on this one! (I couldn't fit his name in the title due to a character limit) He did a fantastic job imitating Hugh Grundy's unrelenting kick on this song, so go subscribe to him! I may make a separate video breaking down the whole piano part if that's something people would be interested in! Here's the isolated guitar part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnQ60duMz7Q Here's the isolated bass part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_i5ts254LQ I recorded the Rickenbacker 360 through my Vox AC30 with a WA-47, and the P Bass (a Squier P Bass built from parts and painted and relic'd) through a Fender Rumble 25 with the WA-47 I played the Honky Tonk piano setting on my Nord Electro 6 for the piano (although there are Mrs. Mills plugins that exist which may have been more accurate, I didn't want to spend the money on them), and I used these samples: https://sonicbloom.net/free-sb-mellotron-samples/ by Sonic Bloom for the Mellotron being played on my Nord Electro 6 (these samples have a bit more of the glassy impact sound that you get when playing a real Mellotron, as opposed to the tapes in the Nord Sample Library) Here's the song request list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvfYU4gYdzPSDHx5Uum_aj5eQWAhJ0jvs-9p0iiugSY/edit Feel free to comment your song requests, and ask any questions you have about chords or notes. Thanks for watching! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COJc9P7r9Es

Time For Love is the fifth track off of the Hollies’ second album, In The Hollies Style, recorded on 13 April 1964, and released on 1 November 1964 (54 Years ago today). Time For Love was the first song recorded for the new album, being recorded directly after the Here I Go Again/Baby That’s All single. It would lead the charge of 7 originals out of the 12 tracks on the new album, quite an increase after Little Lover being the only original song on their debut album. I believe Tony is playing his Cherry Gibson ES-345 on this song, having acquired it in early 1964. I imagine Graham is playing the acoustic on this song, especially given that it a pretty simple rhythm part. Although the song composition is tame for 1964, the Hollies a bIII chord in conjunction with a temporary key change, which is certainly a step in the right direction for Allan, Graham and Tony as songwriters. I’m using a 1967 Gretsch 6120 in the middle position, which is panned some to the left, with the acoustic panned some to the right. The vocals from the stereo right channel are panned mostly to the right, and I panned the stereo left channel with most of the instruments to the left. The current request list is as follows: The Beatles - She Said She Said The Hollies – I Can’t Let Go The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night The Zombies – She Does Everything For Me ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvKiF7OgbAE