"Tell Me What You See"

I probably should have included this in the post with my recording of "Tell Me What You See" in order to substantiate my claim that the bass part is never the same twice, but here's the bass part (and guitar chords) for "Tell Me What You See."  As always, there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong:

"Like Dreamers Do"

In looking through a stack of papers recently, I found the notation of the bass part for "Like Dreamers Do," which I learned and wrote out back in January (in fact, it was the first part I learned in 2018).  As always, there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong:

The reason I started thinking about "Like Dreamers Do" (and ended up learning the bass part) is that I'd listened to a Roy Orbison album and discovered that the phrase "like dreamers do" is in "In Dreams."  This struck me as a unique phrase, so I assumed that "In Dreams" influenced "Like Dreamers Do," but yester-day I did some research and learned that "In Dreams" was released in 1963.  Since "Like Dreamers Do" was recorded 1 January 1962, "In Dreams" couldn't have had any bearing on it.

Regardless of that, this bass part has some rhythmic similarity with the bass part in "And I Love Her" (or, to get the chronology right, the bass part in "And I Love Her" has some similarity with this bass part), specifically the two dotted quarter notes followed by a single quarter note.

"The Fool on the Hill"

A couple days ago, I learned a flute phrase in "The Fool on the Hill," and as I was thinking about the song this morning, I realized something about the chorus.  "'Round" in the line "See the world spinnin' 'round" is sung with a melisma (D E D, I think), although only the first and last times (~0:39 and ~2:38).  This gives a musical sense of the movement of "spinnin' 'round."

While looking into that, I also noticed that the "sun going down" part of "Sees the sun going down" descends (Bb A G G), musically illustrating that "going down."

"Tell Me What You See"

Last week I learned most of the instrument parts for "Tell Me What You See."  Mostly, I wanted to learn just the electric piano part (because it's the Hohner Pianet!), but while listening to the recording in order to learn that, the bass part sounded easy too.  And then the chords (just I IV V in G major), and then the tambourine part.  I learned the claves part too, but since I don't (yet) have claves, I couldn't record that.  (As a sidenote, I think this and "And I Love Her" are the only Beatles songs with claves.)

I notated the bass part (thereby discovering that while a lot of sections of the song are repeated, the bass part is never the same twice), but the electric piano part is above my current skill level of notation, so I filmed those parts in order to have some record of it.  I think there are a few note pairs that aren't as simultaneous as they should be, and the tambourine rhythm lags a bit after the first electric piano part.  I tried doing the vocals too (twice, actually), but they were pretty terrible, so I ended up not using them.

For a (fairly) accurate sound, I used the Hohner Pianet sample on my Nord Electro 5.

"Another Girl"

I listened to Help! again on Tuesday and noticed something about "Another Girl" that I probably should have noticed a long time ago.  In the second verse, after the line "And so I'm tellin' you this time you'd better stop," the instruments drop out, apparently to represent that "stop" musically.

"I Need You"

I recently listened to Help! (and watched the movie), and yester-day I realized something about the structure of "I Need You."  The first couplet is:

You don't realize how much I need you
Love you all the time and never leave you

There really isn't a rhyme here (unless you count rhyming "you" with itself); instead, the lines are linkt through the assonance between "need" and "leave."  Both lines end with "you," though, which is significant.  The word is repeated as if to illustrate that the singer/speaker will "never leave you."

The beginning of the third verse has a similar feature:

Please remember how I feel about you
I could never really live without you

There's a mosaic rhyme here ("about you" rhymes with "without you"), and "you" is integral to both.  As in the first couplet, the word "you" is important in the structure in the same way that the person to whom the song is addressed is important to the singer/speaker.