Friday, September 11, 2015

"Tell Me Why"

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I haven't been doing much work on learning the songs (mostly because I've had difficulty distinguishing the parts), but when I listened to A Hard Day's Night yester-day, I thought the bass part to "Tell Me Why" would be pretty easy to figure out because it sounded pretty much like a scale with a few back-tracks.  It didn't take too long to figure out, and then I referenced The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook for the chords (although I played the opening part as just E minor chords, not E minor 7ths as the book says; it goes between E minor 7ths and A majors, and that's a difficult transition to make quickly).

I'm still suspicious about the last note in the bass part at the very end of the bridge ("Well, I'm beggin' on my bended knees…").  I played an E note, but the chord above it is a D major, so I probably have that wrong.