Thursday, January 19, 2017

"Every Little Thing"

Backdated, archival post

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When I listened to Beatles for Sale a couple days ago, I noticed that the electric six-string part in "Every Little Thing" is just two phrases and (I think palm-muted) chords at the end.  That seemed pretty easy to figure out, so I did that yester-day, but then I also got the entirety of the twelve-string part (which I'd tried to figure out months ago with no success).  I knew about half of the piano part (the four notes during the verses) although I don't remember quite when I learned it (I knew it last April at least), so I figured out the other part too.  There's timpani at the same time, so I'm not entirely sure those notes are accurate (I might be playing the timpani part instead, although it's entirely possible that the piano part just doubles the timpani).

I referenced The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook for the chords, although I didn't follow exactly what they have.  Like I mentioned before, I think they try to incorporate other elements of the arrangement into the guitar chords rather than just listing what was played in the original recording.

I'm not sure if I have the last half of the twelve-string solo right as far as where I played it on the fretboard.  The top two pairs of strings on a twelve-string guitar are tuned to the same note where the other four pairs are the same note an octave apart, so depending on where on the fretboard something is played, there's a difference in sound.