"And I Love Her"

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Friday night, I finally learned the rest of the arpeggiations in "And I Love Her."  I'd been stuck on the last one, but I figured out that where the rhythm guitar plays an E major, that arpeggiated chord in the lead guitar is a C# minor.  Together, they make an E major 7th, which the rhythm guitar plays as a chord in the introduction.

Because I just learned those parts, I'm not very good at transitioning yet, so I missed a few notes in my recording.

"Yellow Submarine"

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I forgot to write about something I noticed when I listened to Yellow Submarine a few days ago.  In "Yellow Submarine," there's the line "Every one of us has all we need."  I think it's meant to describe what the previous line states - the "life of ease" where everyone has enough.  But because the pronouns change from singular ("one") to plural ("we"), it actually describes an excess.  Each single person has the amount required by the whole group of people.

"Hey Bulldog"

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I listened to the Yellow Submarine album this morning, mostly to hear "Hey Bulldog" after seeing some footage of it from the new Beatles 1 Video Collection and not remembering the song that well.

This evening I thought I'd try figuring out the riff, and it was pretty easy.  I figured out most of the chords for the rest of the song too, but I figured them out on guitar, and I don't know if they're played differently on piano (with inversions and such), so I didn't include them.