Last night, I wrote out the tab for the repeating guitar phrase in "What You're Doing" (I've forgotten it once; I don't want to forget it again), and I figured out the rest of the solo! I had the first six or seven notes (in the wrong octave), but I'd gotten stuck after that.
Also, apparently the lead guitar parts are on twelve-string guitar, which I hadn't realized. So I've corrected that too.
A few of the phrases near the end are incomplete. I'm not sure if they're incomplete in the same way in the original, but I do think they are incomplete.
I listened to A Hard Day's Night this morning, and I noticed a few things that I've been oblivious to, even though I've been listening to the album weekly for months. Mostly, the things I noticed were just piano parts I hadn't realized were there. (They're in "Tell Me Why," where I think it just doubles the bass part, and in "When I Got Home." A few months ago, I discovered that there's one in "Things We Said Today" too.) I'm pretty sure the CD copy I have of the album is in mono, which makes it a bit more difficult to distinguish the individual parts.
The other thing I noticed was in "Any Time at All." Almost the entirety of the verses have doubled-tracked vocals except for the beginning of the fourth line. In the first verse, the "If you're feelin'" part is just a single voice, but there's a second for the "sorry and sad." Way back in March, I noted that alliteration, but the double-tracked vocals there emphasize it, since there's a second pair (a pair of words beginning with S and a pair of vocals).
In the second verse, the "When you need a" has a single voice, and "shoulder to cry on" has two. The single/double-tracked voice feature here is more interesting. There's a single voice for the part of the line that indicates a lack ("When you need"), and a pair of voices for the part that offers assistance.
All I'd intended to do was write a post about how I listened to Beatles for Sale again a few days ago and discovered that after the hand-claps in the bridge, there are a few finger-snaps during the third verse. They're sort of loosely structured which makes me think that they were just improvised while recording the hand-claps. That's all I intended to do, but then - in verifying that I did actually hear finger-snaps - I ended up learning the piano part and then I referenced The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook for the rest of the rhythm guitar chords. I don't have the rhythm right for the "I saw the light" part in the first verse; it wasn't until I got to the second verse that I realized you have to strum upwards during those parts to stay in time.
A while after I listened to Beatles for Sale two weeks ago, I remembered that years ago I'd learned the recurring guitar phrase in "What You're Doing." I re-learned it recently and got a few more parts too. I figured out most of the chords on my own, but I did refer to The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook and made a correction. Also, I figured out a truly minuscule part of the piano part. There's an A note to accompany the "me" in "It's me." I doubled it at the octave, but I'm not sure if that's accurate.
My recording cuts out a bit early compared to the original (also, it starts later because there's no way I could have done the opening drum part). The tag at the end is made up of the same elements from the verses, so I didn't think I really needed to include it.
I thought I'd learned the twelve-string part at the end of "A Hard Day's Night" months ago and that I just couldn't play it right. But last night I discovered that the A note I'd been trying (and failing) to play is actually supposed to be a G. Discovering that made this much easier to play. It made it able to play, actually.
I listened to Beatles for Sale to-day, and I decided to figure out the short guitar phrase in "I'll Follow the Sun." I'm not sure it's really long enough to be considered a solo. Anyway, there it is.
After I re-learned a guitar part in "Please Please Me," I learned the bass part for the verses too (mostly so I could post an audio example that was more than just a seven-note guitar phrase).
This is only about the first minute; I'm still stuck at the bridge. The bass part during the verse after this is virtually the same, but I still have the end to figure out too.
This morning, I got to thinking about how "Please Please Me" has a guitar part doubled on harmonica (or a harmonica part doubled on guitar, whichever). I knew I'd figured out it before, but I didn't remember it, so I had to figure it out again. I would post an audio example, but doubling the guitar part with harmonica requires an E major harmonica, which I don't have (and the guitar part by itself wouldn't be too interesting). So until either I get an E major harmonica or I learn an-other part to the song, this text post will have to suffice. I made sure to write down the part, so I won't have to re-learn it a second time.
