"I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"

Yester-day, I was thinking about "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" and noticed a small feature in the lines "Just to dance with you / Is ev'rything I need."  The three syllables of "ev'rything" are each sung to a different pitch (C# B G#), so musically, there's a sense of breadth.

"If I Fell"

I listened to the second disc of On Air - Live at the BBC, Vol. 2 to-day and noticed a small feature in "If I Fell" that's also present in the studio version.  Throughout the song, Lennon and McCartney are singing alternatively in unison and in harmony.  At the end of the line "When she learns we are two," they break from unison singing to harmony (on "two," Lennon sings a C; McCartney an E).  This musical break mirrors the fracture in the lyric itself.  That Lennon's C is an accidental (the song is in D major) highlights this break.

"In Spite of All the Danger"

I listened to Anthology 1 yester-day and noticed a small feature in "In Spite of All the Danger."  Lennon starts singing each verse alone but is joined by McCartney at the end of the first line, so "In spite of all the" is sung by one voice and "danger" (or "heartache" in the second verse) by two.  This arrangement (with "danger" and "heartache" sung by two voices) provides a sense of that "all."

"Savoy Truffle"

As part of my blog about the Hohner Pianet, I made a video on how to play the Pianet part in "Savoy Truffle":

"What You're Doing"

I was thinking about "What You're Doing" this morning and noticed an interesting feature in the structure of the first two lines:  "Look what you're doin' / I'm feeling blue and lonely."  There's a mosaic rhyme between "doin'" and "blue and," so in terms of completing the rhyme, the word "lonely" is unnecessary.  Even in the structure, then, it's left by itself, and there's something of an impression of its meaning.

"Piggies"

Recently, I learned (or re-learned) some parts for "Piggies."  While there are some spots where all I know is one instrument part, I still felt I had enough to make it worth recording.  This is up until the bridge:

Along with electric bass, I used French harpsichord E and the Mellotron cello sound on my Nord Electro 5.  I'd learned just the beginning phrase of the harpsichord part in November 2017, but I never wrote it down.  I recently re-learned it and then got a bit more too.  I noticed what is probably a trivial feature in the second phrase (at ~0:21):

The last four notes of the first measure have the same intervals as the third phrase of "Westminster Quarters."

This is probably just coincidental, but I thought I'd point it out all the same.  (For what it's worth, Paul McCartney also quotes "Westminster Quarters" at the beginning of his "Let 'Em In.")