"Two of Us"

I forgot to record this at least twice, but last month, I learned the electric guitar part in the coda of "Two of Us" (the Let It Be version, at least).

"Cry Baby Cry"

I'm not sure this lasts long enough to have been worth recording, but yester-day I learned the harmonium phrase near the beginning of "Cry Baby Cry."  I learned the chords beneath it too, although I also referenced The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook.  My keyboard doesn't really have a harmonium voice, so I used the pipe organ.

"Here, There, and Everywhere"

Yester-day I started reading the entry for 14 June 1966 in Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions.  This was the first session for "Here, There, and Everywhere," and just in reading the title, I realized something about the song.  At the end, the three syllables of "ev'rywhere" are all sung to different pitches: D B G in the line "I will be there and ev'rywhere" and D F# G in the line "Here, there, and ev'rywhere."  Because the syllables are all sung to different pitches (with spans of a fifth and a fourth, respectively), there's a musical sense of the breadth of "ev'rywhere."

"Got to Get You into My Life"

I recently read the entry for 18 May 1966 in Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, which details the session at which the saxophone and trumpet parts for "Get to Get You into My Life" were recorded.  Yester-day, I figured out one of the saxophone parts (although, of course, I think I figured out the one that's least interesting to listen to on its own), so now I can put it together with the bass part, which I learned in March.  After I'd recorded both of those, I also figured out an-other phrase (which I think is trumpet), which makes this a little more interesting to listen to.  I don't know how to play saxophone or trumpet, so I used mellotron voices on my keyboard.

In the original recording, it sounds - to me, anyway - as if McCartney plays the first bass note simultaneously on two different strings: a G on the fifth fret of the D string and the open G string.  I'm not sure if that's really what's going on there, but that's what I did in my recording.  The longer the fade-out goes on, the less confident I am in my accuracy.  I think I flubbed a note there too.

"A Hard Day's Night"

I was thinking about "I Want to Hold Your Hand" this morning, and I realized that one of the musical phrases is re-used in "A Hard Day's Night."  After every other line in the verses of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," there's this chromatic phrase in the bass part:

I think this is even doubled on guitar an octave higher.

This same phrase (just shifted up pitch-wise) is also in "A Hard Day's Night":

It's present only once in the studio version (at ~2:10, in between the lines "But when I get home to you / I find the things that you do"), but I think it's in every verse in the live versions on Live at the BBC and Live at the Hollywood Bowl.