This is a wonderful documental.

And acid restores one's child-like view of the world -- hence Strawberry Fields Forever, John's favourite childhood play area, a thick wood bounded by a high brick wall, not to mention all the Pink Floyd songs from 1967 recalling their childhood experiences.

@BrianCarnevaleB26

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic technical breakdown of this stunning composition. Many thanks.

@BrianCarnevaleB26

2 жыл бұрын

This really shows how brilliant and creative they really were.

Yes , the picture , yes , LSD . SUCH A BEAUTIFUL creature , now , John , it's okay , I'm with you always . Thank you , much to learn . I see , next in line , have another go at It . Peace , Love , hope , and understanding , tod .

I could never figure out why Lennon's voice had the ethereal quality it had on this masterpiece tune. I guess after George Martin did his majick on "Strawberry Fields" it was just more tape speed technique to create new sounds. Genius. I believe Jimmy Page did the same thing on Robert Plant's voice on "Song Remains the Same" to give it the higher pitch. But The Beatles did it first. Go figure........:-)

Very clever band indeed. Soooo much talent and inventivity.

Thank you Bill for all the great songs you made...They were my lullabies.

Wow, I learned something new about this song.

The guy talking is a good singer!

Awesome song.:)

John Lennon is so badass on that looks😎

I Am The Walrus, was also inspired by Alice In Wonderland.

Despite what anyone says, I believe the song is about Alice in wonderland while on LSD

@nellsun2521

6 жыл бұрын

Hanna In the Memoirs of Bill Shears he says that's exactly what he and John intended.

@rickbladzik408

3 жыл бұрын

He liked to.play w words n have fun w secret meanimgs

Brilliant Howard. Loved your "Big Bangs In Music" too (history of Western written music, loosely called "Classical"). I wish that was available commercially, it would be so good for my piano students to own.

Paul's bass notes do not leave the key of A, they simply step down. I love how these guys think they can get into the heads of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

@shamsam69

6 жыл бұрын

TheJhaley12 true - but the description of how it may sound without the bass line that Paul does is also correct.

@chicklets4ever51

Жыл бұрын

Well, it should perhaps be rephrased to say that by including the dissonant notes in the full chromatic A scale, Paul's lines open up the natural possibility of the modulation. It's true that for anyone used to this stuff--and I'm pretty basic just the same--it also seems odd for him to make so big a deal about the chord change to f-sharp minor, which is simply the natural minor of A major. (G major is also totally natural to this progression.) This doesn't take away of course from the fact that the full chord sequence, especially the dreamy B-flat half-step (more typical of John than Paul), is terrific, but that's just normal for the best of the Beatles.

Masterpiece!

Still so much fun!

Awesome

He states at 5:26, Lennon and McCartney were clearly loving their newly discovered wizardry of modulation. Really? They had been using modulation for years. Just one incredible example of John Lennon's mastery of modulation is his composition, If I Fell from 1964.

@eminem13001

3 жыл бұрын

Gary Esposito hmm, well this just opened me up to using modulation in my songwriting o only the basics and a chord progression like 2,5,1 and 1,4,5

You can hear John straining to get those notes in that take, and the finished version sounds like his voice is significantly sped up. (They did speed up their vocals on a few of their songs -- compare the mono and stereo versions of She's Leaving Home, and, there's a film clip of them playing the fast, heavy version of Revolution in which you can see John playing an 'open' A chord [but with a flat 1st finger barre so he can play the rock-n-roll 6th note with his 3rd finger] but the song is somewhere between B & C concert pitch.) I reckon this song was written on acoustic guitar down in E -- it works really well with the open B & E(high) strings in that key.

@joaquinpino4242

5 жыл бұрын

forestsoceansmusic That is just the tape that sometimes messes up the pitch, you can hear it in a lot of songs from the 60s if you try to play along with a guitar. Obviously excepting lucy in the sky.

nice

interesting bass lines.. i'm a Lennon freak.

Wow interesting

@CalVid

3 жыл бұрын

Very!

Escuela Normal de Piano AGREED, profoundly. Paul's innovative bass was driven by John's VOCAL modulations - any cursory listening to the demos makes the quite plain.

Who also thinks that THEY SHOULD MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO FOR LUCY IN THE SKY? USING EDITING

@davidsharounoff8521

5 жыл бұрын

Watch 'Yellow Submarine' there is a scene dedicated to that song and it's pretty much a music video of sorts

Hmm I saw this on PBS recently while staying at a hotel. Interesting.

It is about LSD. LSD makes you look at the world like a child. John was taking LSD at least once a week at this time

Strawberry fields are penny lane aren't on Sgt pepper. They were released as singles before the album.

Compare the songs of John with Paul.....against John's solo songs ,the latter were raw.

Bullshit it's fact they both wrote the lyrics even Lennon said so

I do not agree with crediting McCartney with modulations in the Beatles, nor in John Lennon's songs. As a matter of fact most of the first remarkable modulations in Beatles compositions were actually written by John: Not a second time, If I fell, you're going to lose that girl, to name a few. Yes, McCartney was and still is a great composer, but Lennon was at least just as great. Lucy is mostly a Lennon song, and quite possibly the greatest in Pepper album.

@Johan93888

7 жыл бұрын

Oh, great. I agree with you completely! With "modulations" you mean change of key?? In that case you even have I Should Have Known Better where you have both a change of key in the transition to the middle part and i n the middle part.

@FreeSociety1

7 жыл бұрын

Great points. Lennon's songs were the most harmonically complex in The Beatles catalog. The song "Because" (Lennon) is also a great example of that.

@daviddamico3615

7 жыл бұрын

Yep, I agree. I don't think it's safe to just assume McCartney had to do with modulations in Lucy. He did however become a lot more interested in experimenting with bass notes after Pet Sounds was released( "The Fool On The Hill" is one of my favorites). But like you said, people seem to forget that John Lennon was a great creative mind not just lyrically, but musically as well. I always thought that John was a bit more naturally creative with his compositions and that Paul had to work a little harder whether it was classical training or such to tap into his creativity.

@zekielswheel

7 жыл бұрын

@FreeSociety1 Good point, but it should be noted the harmonies were pretty much arranged entirely by George Martin on 'Because'

@oldhat6100

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's as if he is saying that Paul is responsible for 'changing the harmonic structure of the whole song' -which is untrue, as the 'destabilising' chromatic bass line, with the 'rogue notes' is already present in the lower notes of the 'music box' counter melody which John wrote. Paul is essentially just doubling up. All the chord progressions and modulations in this song are Johns.

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LSD

It's too much of a coincidence. I reckon little Julian asked his mum (Cynthia) 'What's this LSD that daddy and Paul and George and Ringo are always talking about?', and I reckon his mum remembered Julian's favourite girl in infants school at the time ("Lucy") and made up "Lucy Sky Diamonds", which then prompted (or Cynthia prompted him) to paint his picture. After all, it was illegal (still is) and the British Police had been busting Rock/Pop stars with a vengeance, even over mild marijuana, so they couldn't have Julian blabbing about LSD (as little kids are apt to blab about anything they hear). Acid was very important to The Beatles, Paul even said to the Press around this time (give or take a month) that he thought it was a wonderful mind-expanding experience (and he was the last of the Beatles to try it, having many reservations initially). They were first given it in late 1965, and you can hear its influence on Rubber Soul, and even more so on Revolver (early-mid '66). Four whole Beatle albums (four-and-a-half counting the Rock side of Yellow Submarine soundtrack) devoted to consciousness raising and tripping out. Psychedelic means "consciousness-raising", I think the term was coined by Timothy Leary -- he had been researching LSD since the late 1950's. Cary Grant had LSD-therapy back then for hang-ups he had with women. They were also curing alcoholics with it back then.

Who thougjt he said john cena at the start?

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Just play around until it sounds good. That's what Paul.and many others do, it is not premeditated

mike chen

who knows where the Alice movie clips shown in this video are from?

@pelutzza

7 жыл бұрын

Dino Agate Alice in Wonderland BBC 1966

And he took the title from his son's drawing and wrote a song about LSD. The rest is a story for the straights. Anyone with experience of acid knows this describes trips. This commentator is a straight, determined to dash any connection with drugs, perish the thought, and more interested in displaying his musical analysis than just playing the fucking song!

@MilesBellas

6 жыл бұрын

Peter Simmons The topic is music composition and theory.

Paul bossing everyone around as usual. John relied on Paul because he's more musically literate. but he soon released after the Beatles that you can make great songs using just 6 or 8 chords. as was so beautifully demonstrated by groups such as led zeppelin.

its so jarring to hear him quote, 'on a boat on a river'.

5th

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"John and Paul" did not make the music to the song. It was Lennon. And the music is typical Lennon. McCartney has never claimed he contributed to the music. McCartney helped Lennon with the lyric. i think McCatney exaggregates his contribution there. Soon we will perhaps hear from McCartney that he made a part of the music too.

@daniru5710

4 жыл бұрын

McCartney keeps stealing credit for Beatles songs. He always will be second to john

Paul McCartney discusses it kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqJrqtqYntOZoc4.html

Hasta el culo de lsd

Now I know why John hated the song. It took him ages to get it right. His first attempt is terrible.

I'm curious that they really wrote these songs if they were written for them by some sick groups. Lucy and Alice is always satanic Lucifer. And diamonds the other stars maybe the fallen ones and we'll never know. Yes I would agree with the drug thing too. This stuff must have been shoved on them.

fake news

Great music, however why not used for good? Alice in Wonderland give me a break.

Sounds like an agenda

nice one if they did not have all the crappy talkover.

@designerlarry

7 жыл бұрын

Fabric - Chasing Sun doesn't bother me- it was part of a documentary about the making of the record . Either get the album or the 50th anniversary with all the takes and rehearsals instead.

@fabric-chasingsun3478

7 жыл бұрын

Larry Fulmer fair enough... as a musician I'm more interested in hearing the raw stuff

Bullshit , the song is about LSD.

Bullshit. It's about LSD.

Bull shite. The brothers brimming Are as much children books as play boy is to atnomy studies