Not even 3 hours ago, I searched youtube for 'Mike Pachelli If I fell' to see if you had made a video on this song, and just now I then see this in my notifications... thanks as always Mike

Another incredible tutorial. To me, this is among the finest works of The Beatles. The lads were only a few years older than teenagers at the time. This composition is beautifully composed not only instrumentally, but vocally too. Who could do this in 1964? Fast forward today and I’ll ask the same question. Not many, if ANY. Your breaking this down fundamentally reveals pure greatness. Lennon’s and Harrison’s guitar coordinations are virtuous. And Harrison just turned 21 at the time! Thanks for offering your gifts of knowledge and your time in deconstructing this masterpiece.

@robnic52

7 ай бұрын

It looks like that J160E neck and fretboard has been shifted out to join the body on the 15th fret, allowing the pickup to sit in the space left between the fretboard and sound hole. Still sounds great. A favourite Beatles song of mine, thanks for another brilliant deconstruction and reconstruction. 👍

@grantporter1674

7 ай бұрын

Well stated. The understated elegance and simplicity of George’s accompaniment with subtle transitions is a great example of their magic. Thanks Mike! Love the new cheap 12 string!

@Floodland-bn3ol

7 ай бұрын

Agree. I think this is one of their finest songs.

One of my favorites ❤. Thank you, Mike🙌🙏

Yet another tune on my list of favorite Beatles songs! Thanks so much for keeping their music alive and well Mike! Happy Holidays to you & your family! 👍👍🌲🌲

That intro! Anyone claiming John wasn't "melodical" should be tied up in a padded cell and have it played to them 25 hours daily. Genious! And thanks heaps, Mike! I've been waiting for you to take on this masterpiece! But come on! This is at least the second time you do Pauls part barefoot. You denied everything the first time, but now this affectionate move is beyond reasonable doubt. The verdict is guilty. ❤

Thank you for this. My all time favorite band.

I check your youtube channel everyday for anything new. Thank you for all you do.

Been waiting for this one- one of my favorite songs of all time, and I've wanted to see the odd strum pattern really analyzed like this. So thanks!

Fantastic job, Mike, as always!

So glad you did this one Mike! 🎸🎧🎵

You are truly amazing!Than you for all your hard work helping old guys like myself enjoy the music of the Beatles!

The Brilliance is within you, Mike! Only You can put these together so tastefully and correct! 👏🏻😊👍.

Great work, Mike! This was one of my favorite's from A Hard Day's Night, grabbing my 10 year old heart and ears when I saw the movie in 1964.

Maestro, that song touches my heartstrings and always makes me a little emotional. Your performance was luxurious. Excellent tutorial, as always. Gracias 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Perhaps the most beautifull song for the first love composed by John Winston. Thank you for sharing this treasure.

Excellent performance, beautiful tune.

When you thought you knew the Beatles and then someone takes it to the ultimate level. Thanks as always.

I've been playing this for years and it's alway nice to learn a few new tricks. Thanks Mike......Merci....

you are Amazing Mike! you're such a thorough, patient instructor -- btw top shelf cover by your selves, those Harrison arpeggios knock me out +. LH workout

Fantastic! One of my very favorite Beatle songs. Love all the details you puzzle out. I've been playing that part of the bridge with D9 chord for years, and now I know how it actually was played. How cool about bringing out the harmonies!

Beautiful song written by John……great cover and brilliant job!

Mike fantastic …. Absolutely without a shadow of doubt the best guitar teacher on the internet ….. thank you

Great video Mike. One of my favourite songs of that early period.

JUST PERFECT, Mike...This is one of my favorite since I saw the movie (I think I saw it about eleven times since ...) ,owning the DVD of course ... I like to play that song that, according to my voice's capacity, I need to sing in the key of " A" , thanks again for you devotion to the Beatles' cause ... You're certainly the best expert es-Beatles ever !

Thank you very very much Mike this is one of my favorite Beatles songs. Merry Christmas Happy hannukah happy holidays happy New Year

That was awesome!! Thanks Mike

Thanks Mike! One of my very favorites, and I wish they could have done a few more songs with the Everly Brothers inspiration.

Thanks. for all your hard work. Thoroughly illuminating and enjoyable as always.

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

I learned this as a kid, and am still amazed at the cleverness of the intro, and the smooth melodic line through the half step modulation. It's crazy, and inexplicable.

Love these Mike! Helping everyone learn a lot

I love your back stories (let alone the rendition, which is brilliant as always). It just boggles the mind how it is possible to create 7 songs in 7 days during the concerts. Obviously not possible in 70s ))

Really good take on a fine early Beatles songs Mike. Our family was driving in my dads brand new 64 Chevelle Malibu wagon on vacation from the Burgh to Fort Lauderdale, Florida early summer 64, The Beatles were all over top 40 radio, my dad really liked this song saying they sing it beautifully but couldn't have written it, my sisters & I were sayin' No They Did Write It ! He just could not believe it thinking there has to be a ghostwriter ...

Great as usual, Mr. Pachelli.

Maravillosa y emotiva presentacion. Es un enorme trabajo realizado. Muchas gracias, Mike. Peaceandlove.

I love this song. For some reason I especially like that little overdub at the end of the first verse. I used to play it over when I was a kid.

Beautiful as always greetings from Chile

Que hermosa canción y tu interpretación excelente!

I love this song...I was 10 years old when it came out and love your video 🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦

Fantastic - 🤩 thank you Mike!

I've been looking at that Harley Benton 12 string, since a Rick is out of my price range. Thanks for your work, your vids are a valuable recourse!

Superb Rendition, and I wasn,t aware of Georges ,s extensive search for sound on this one, this shows how Georges had such a wide knowledge of the Fretboard.

Love your guitar stuff

I am a 77j old beginner guitar player from the Flanders in Belgium and Beatle fan. Thank you for the verry clear lesson If I fell. Great !! Jackie Vdk

Definitely in my top 5 all time Beatles songs.

One of my favourite Beatles songs. Great job Mike. Ps love the Abbey Road “McCartney foot ware” 😉

A masterpiece in simplicity! Amazing how the tuning on the 12-string is finicky solo, but sounds so good in the mix! Thanks!

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@davekennedy - the tuning thing when I’m playing solo is caused by indiscriminate tension put on various strings whilst I’m talking. I’m much more careful when recording the part with my track. But then again, there’s NO guitar that’s totally in tune all over the neck. And this is especially true of a 12 string. Plus - if you listen carefully to the record, George’s RickenWacker is WAY out of tune!

Love it! Love it! Love it!

I don’t know how you do it. It must take hours! But all of your labors go well listened. I always enjoy your explanations and your music of The Beatles! Thanks so much!

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@david - You're welcome and yeah - it takes me the better part of two weeks - working day & night to do one of these lessons.

Please, happy just to dance tutorial from you!!! Love your videos!!!

From hard days night, they are in the TV studio and George says something about ringo and his drums and think John says I'll show him then they break into if I fell thanx Mike for all your fabulous fab four tutorials

I have that same Harley Benton 12 string, what an amazing sound right?!? Not to mention its extremely afforable. Stellar lesson as always Mike.

These lessons are like candy Mike!

I remember asking for a video on this song a couple years ago so I’m definitely happy to see one, I actually had A Hard Day’s Night on DVD when I was a kid (as well as Help! and Yellow Submarine) and watched the living daylights out of that movie so that’s where I heard this song for the first time. It definitely became one of my favourite early songs from them and John’s acoustic part at the beginning is just genius, great lesson as always Mike. As for some future lessons how about some for the Abbey Road Medley (either each song gets its own individual lesson and you compile everything at the end or one long video, but splitting it could be a bit easier) or Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I’d love to see those sometime

Superb!

Great video as always. I own 3 Harley Benton guitars and 1 bass. Unbelievable quality. I wish those $200 bass guitars were available when I was flying around with my band. I could drop ship a $200 bass to the gig and give it away when the gig was over. I would save at least $400 on oversized baggage. That's when $400 was $400!

Thank you so much for your lessons Mike ! I would love, if you can show us the the incredible Beatles song: Slow Down

You are amazing brother.

Extremely well taught . You do know how to teach . Jack .

Awesome Mike 💪

You rock, Mike!

Your page is a treasure!

Excellent Mike as always, I'd love to hear you do Anna (go to him)

Super cover!👌

Thanks for your world-class lessons and information, Mike. That Harley Benton 12 string sounds very, very nice (1/10 the price [no exaggeration] of a Rickenbacker C360/12-63). Best Regards.

yay! been hoping you’d do this for a long time - in fact i think you said you sold the guitar that you needed for george’s part to put this together - anyway much as gracias

Love the video as always, but I just wanted to say that's a really funky 12 string. Thanks for the video Mike!

still have no clue how the beatles wrote so well. I heard this at 5 am and its still stuck in my head !

Excellent!

Thank you Mike!

As he’s playing through the chords without singing, my brain keeps defaulting to The Rutles’ “A Girl Like You” for the melody 😂😂

@Berniewahlbrinck

7 ай бұрын

Yess!! 😀

Day 1 of asking Mike for his lesson on The Beatles 'I'm Happy Just To Dance With You' I've been looking forward to Mike's lesson on this song longer than nearly any other Beatles song, the rhythm in particular is one of my favourites. I only have an acoustic to practice on so to hear him play it on some Beatles instruments would be sensational!! Look forward to your next video whatever the song Mike, keep up the fine work.

@LewisCollins3846

4 ай бұрын

Keep going man I love that song 😂

If l fell e uma verdadeira obra prima dos Beatles, uma das mais belas canção, entre muitas outras, produzidas pela maior banda de Rock de todos os tempos !!!❤️❤️❤️👍👍👏👏👏

Я ждал этого урока! Спасибо!

I would love to see one after 909

Thanks so much Mike 🎸🙏 Another amazing tutorial- How in the world do you find out so much detail about the recording sessions? It’s so awesome that you share that information. Thanks again!

@MPfrance

5 ай бұрын

@greg - ANYTHING & everything you want to know about the lads is readily available on the web.

Another fabulous breakdown Mike. I'm glad you've solved the non D9 in there because I was sure that that chord was in there. Just shows the vocals can be misleading to what chord is played over it.

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@alan - I can't stress that fact enuff. The Beatles' harmonies sound SO full because they DO NOT put every note that they sing into every chord that they play.

God bless THE Mike Pachelli !!!!

Belle le armonizzazioni vocali 👍👍

Great!

Thanks Mike

Great lesson, Mike. Just wondering if your Harley Benton needed a lot of tweaking and setup when you got it. Thanks.

There is an advertisement offering guitar lessons because he assures us that we can't learn any guitar off of KZread. Mike you're taught me so many impressive Beatles songs, even if I don't follow every bit of your lesson, it still gives me enough of so many songs that it makes me look and feel like a passible quick good enough continuous Beatles Busker. Could you do a couple of Elliott Smith songs but the ones that aren't so available like Place Pigale , True Love, Taking a fall and Everything's ok

@MPfrance

4 ай бұрын

@uwu - the things that you learn on your own are those that you learn the best!

Thank you, appreciated.

Love the videos Mike. Any chance you can do Yer Blues, I Want You, or Money next? :)

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@sloth - "Yer Blues" is on my to-do list.

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@sloth - "Yer Blues" is on my to-do list. Haven't decided what I'll do next. Workin' on my 7th Django Reinhardt tune for an album I hope to finish next year.

"Hard to see with this lighting" ....... Must have been "A Hard Day's Light." (nailed it!!!)

Finally this song! :D

I like how the opening gives little indication of the rest of the song including basic key.

There are some that stand out on the internet you are one of them. You strive for perfection. How do you know all this?

@MPfrance

29 күн бұрын

@tyrellmiller - I look it up on the internet...

Hey Mike, great lesson as per usual, thank you! I know your thoughts on the Rics, but what do you think about the Hofner bass? Is yours made in Germany? Thx

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@vito - Thanks. Mine's Chinese and sounds and feels great!

How come you don't like Rickenbackers? Great video, keep theme coming!!

@MPfrance

6 ай бұрын

@thomas - 'cuz they're WAY overpriced pieces of garbage. I've had four of them. If you have better than average ears - then you'll know that they sound & feel like crap and are NEVER in tune.

Hard to pick favorites, but this one is particularly romantic

I think I can here a bit of Here There and Everywhere in this song. Certainly that progression of D, Em and F#m

How do you find out all the information you do about each song, how it was recorded how many takes and who played what. You do a great job.

@brent_1101

7 ай бұрын

Probably a site like BeatlesBible

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

ANYTHING you wanna know about the Beatles is readily available on the web. Simply GOOGLE any question and you'll get tons of data.

Harrison’s flourishes on his 12 string always add so much…or on his 6 string for that matter ! Great lesson as always. By the way does that HARLEY BENTON 12 have a wider neck than the Ricks ? How do you rate that guitar? Thanks.

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@1rw - The nut on the Harley is 1 7/8" - It does the job and is thousands of $$ less than a Rik.

@1rwjwith

7 ай бұрын

@@MPfrance thanks Mike!

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

The nut on the Harley is 1.88" - The Riks are 1.63" She does the job - intonation is fine - and costs thousands of $$ less.

I think I prefer your sound a like from the original Mike! Bravo, sterling job😊

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

Thanks - that's very kind of you to say. Fact is - it's much easier to get a cleaner and more separated sound with today's studio technology than it was 60 years ago.

Such a great song and an excellent version by you. That Harley Benton sounds really nice as well. Is it fun to play?

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@paul - Thanks! And yeah - I find nothing criticizable about the Harley. It's definitely more comfy than any Rik I've ever played.

@KingHarvestHSC

7 ай бұрын

I had a hard time with the 360/12 but really liked when I switched to the 660/12.@@MPfrance

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@King - Yeah - the 660/12 is what the Harley Benton is based on. But I've already lost SO much $$ on Riks - and have never 'connected' with any - so I'm done with them...

I think I know where Paul got the starting chords for Here There & Everywhere

Pachelli the man for Beatles song lessons. How about doing "It's Gonna Be Alright" from Gerry and the Pacemakers friends of the Beatles.

How do you like the Harley Benton Rickenbacher-inspired 12-string?

@Cbcw76

7 ай бұрын

I ended up getting two, one strung like the Rick/Roger McGuinn, and one The Normal Way. They're capable of stage-work (ie, mimicry for cover-song performances; tuners hold up well). Mine are 2020 and 2021 purchases and I'm coming close to experimenting with different pickups. Just to try different ones. These H-B's are inspirational enough for composition work, too, but I usually end up on the Guild F512 to finish those. (I sure won't get two of those!)

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@spiecalK - I like her fine. Like I said in the video. I've owned four Riks and didn't like any of them. The Harley is thousands of $$ less and gets the job done.

@MPfrance

7 ай бұрын

@special - It's fine. Does the job and is thousands of $$ less than the Rik.

I did notice the rather different way John strummed that song, not the usual way moat people do, not to mention the chords. Just by ear. And that was in the 60s. I'm just a regular player, but it's my ears, I guess. 😁