Next time someone interviews Paul McCartney he'll just reply: "Ask Mike Pachelli...he knows all the answers!"

A couple of kids taking a bus across Liverpool to find a guy who knew the B7 chord to playing these chords blows my mind. Some serious woodshedding went on somewhere along the line...Thanks again!

@RelivingHistory1

3 ай бұрын

It seems surreal

Wow, George's part was really impressive. Have been playing for years but I still could not do that. For a twenty year old kid to come up with that is really something.

@Prof.ArnonPalty

2 жыл бұрын

All 4 = Geniuses.

Mike , i can't begin to tell you how wonderful your Beatles Guitar Lessons are . I had basically given up on Guitar till your Lessons came along . Now i am having fun again . Thank You So Much for sharing your awesome Talent with us ..

@EdwardBloom89

2 жыл бұрын

Till there was Mike

@nickfernandez853

2 жыл бұрын

@@EdwardBloom89 lol nice one

@Oldstylemusic25042

2 жыл бұрын

@@EdwardBloom89 that was a good one

@geneo3654

Жыл бұрын

Awesome Mike !

That F#7-something towards the end of the solo is like a breath of fresh air. George takes simplicity to the highest level in such a young age. His solos are always on my top lists rgardless of technicalities.

Insane that a kid picker from Liverpool back then came up with that Chet Atkins level of a lead. Johns tasty chords as well as Paul's beautiful bass are so choice and beyond their years! All gelled together perfectly. I am old enough to remember this song a couple years earlier from The Music Man ... but this version is the gem. Mike's lessons show every drop of sound they laid down on vinyl. Incredible video and thanks.

@Spartanm333

Жыл бұрын

With a sprinkling of Django Reinhardt :)

I have watched this tutorial numerous times now and it never ceases to amaze me the genius of the Beatles and the passion of Mike recreating these songs, note-by-note, for us all to emulate. Thanks Mike 👍👍

George, 19 years old, didn't screw around, he came right out of the gate a genius on guitar.

@pauldank3453

3 жыл бұрын

Really though how'd they do it? The formed the greatest, most succesfull and most influential band ever. Saved Rock and Roll started the british invasion came up with a lot of new genres, made several of the greatest albums ever and popularized and partly invented new recording techniques and broke up all inside their 20s. I don't get it

@jamesthompson316

2 жыл бұрын

And some people call them a boy band..ignorant fools

@cuebj

Жыл бұрын

​@@pauldank3453 Saved far more than RnR. Musicologist and composer Howard Goodall made TV programmes for BBC about how they saved classical music which had disappeared up its own backside in elitist no harmony, silence, death of music - well worth tracking down on YT or BBC iPlayer

@KaraLey98

Жыл бұрын

@@pauldank3453 I'm just so glad to have lived through the time all of this happened, and hope Paul and Ringo live a long time from now in good health. Such a shame about George and John!

I am continually amazed at how good of a guitarist John was especially how young he was

When I was a kid in possession of Meet the Beatles and my folks were less than thrilled with my take over of the living room console stereo, I sat mom down to listen to Till There Was You b/c in part, she was a show tunes kinda gal. FANTASTIC video-makes me appreciate the little bits that make this one shine-at least for me. I can't help but wince when I see GH stretch his fingers an inhuman distance on the Gretsch on the Sullivan show

@stephensmith60

3 жыл бұрын

Like you, I used to involve my mother because she knew music. My mother happened to think that the Beatles were great musicians.

Thanks for all the cool background info on this iconic song

I agree. I think this song proved that they were musicians.

@stephenstrang590

2 жыл бұрын

I think you mean to say special musicians.

Simply magnificent. My gosh, George Harrison at 20 was a master.

No one bar none has done it any better Mike...beautiful and most accurate lesson.

@MPfrance

2 жыл бұрын

eagle52 - I'm humbled by your VERY kind words. Thank you!

George Harrisons parts never cease to amaze me, a master craftsmen at the age of 20, incredibly subtle simple and complex at the same time and always playing for the song

@MPfrance

2 жыл бұрын

Graham - absolutely! And you said it very well.

Amazing how without any training George got the fretboard and modes so well. He would be handed these new songs and a few takes later he would drop just what the song needed. Same with Ringo really. Still those arpeggios and that lead part takes that song up to world class. Mike great lesson! I am putting this one on the set list!

Beautiful. Brilliant. Thank you. What a pleasure to behold. I'm 73, which means I was there in front of the radio and my record player when Meet The Beatles came out. I've always been amazed at George's work on this, especially his solo. Thanks for breaking it down and recreating this special cut.

I play this solo anytime I'm testing a new guitar to test its articulation and whether it has its own voice.

@hugopena7140

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, this is my go to song

@switch.8536

Жыл бұрын

x2

Mike, I am running out of superlatives for you and your lessons. I asked and you did it in your usual incredible style. What a gem you are to Beatles fans. Thank you thank you thank you. Love these acoustic arrangements.

It s look like simple guitar playing by John but in fact, it s rhytmically more complex. The whole song, the whole harmonic or rythm skills are just perfect. 👌

Yet another fantastically inspiring and professional lesson from the great maestro Mike Pachelli. Thank you so much for this video!

@MPfrance

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

You put so much work and effort and time into these lessons, demystifying this wonderful stuff, can't thank you enough

@MPfrance

3 жыл бұрын

ppixilation - You are welcome and thanks very much for understanding. It takes A LOT of time - many days as a matter of fact - away from my family to produce these lesson videos.

I absolutely love the way the instructor teaches it is so refreshingly humorous and makes learning fun :-) highly recommended

This video proves just how underrated these guys were as musicians. Just sublime playing... and singing..

@venderstrat

3 жыл бұрын

Mate- no one under-rates them. They are universally accepted as musical geniuses. Love and Peace. Out.

@tomk1tl39

3 жыл бұрын

@@venderstrat Yup, still amazing how a group of young musicians were so talented and 'clicked' together !

@cuebj

Жыл бұрын

​@@venderstrat A lot of people still underrate the early stuff compared to the later. It ignores the exuberance and originality of merging Everleys with Little Richard, Crickets, Berry, US girl groups, etc. Also forgets that early monster sales bought the right to experiment later on. And, from the beginning, top classical musicologists and critics in UK hailed what they were doing with harmony

@KaraLey98

Жыл бұрын

@@venderstrat Yep someone ALWAYS has to make the "underrated" comment. That it's made about the Beatles just shows how mindless one's head must be in a particular moment to say something like that 😯 And no, my reference point in music is not Rock n Roll, but any thinking person who has a normal level of awareness, knows this group won't ever be matched.

@JFFM730

11 ай бұрын

@@venderstratthey said under rated as MUSICIANS for a reason… most people think they were extremely mediocre musicians who could barely play their instruments, not that many people even know paul mccartney can play drums. also, accept opinions…

Mike....You explain and cover this song, and ALL the songs you post very well! Very thorough!

Love this song truly shows what geniuses these young cats were! I love their other versions of this song aswell and how george constantly adds new flourishes each time amazing !

There's a reason I'm up at 2:20 a.m. in Los Angeles - these lessons are more than info and technique - they are glimpses into a bygone culture. No auto-tune. Just great Beatle music fueled by mass hysteria and a bit of payola. Still holding out for a Hold Me Tight lesson! Hope you're well Mike!

@MPfrance

3 жыл бұрын

Richard - thanks - VERY kind of you to say - and yeah - "Hold Me Tight" (played in tune) would be interesting! Doin well - thanks for the well wishes.

@mikeshort130

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Hold Me Tight would be great. I play it from the Beatles Complete Scores tome but want to see Mike interpret it for inside tips.

How cleaver were The Beatles ..i have played guitar a long time ..but the chord changes in this number ..wow ..and they played it live for the Queen of England ..was that 63 ..

It always amazes me how little I recognize the underlaying rhythm parts of these songs, just goes to show how much goes under the radar or at least for me. So thank you a bunch Mike, I very much adore these lessons

@MPfrance

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Bravo. So nice to listen to John’s part as I’ve been singing George’s for years. George’s solos can always be sung. Thank you

@josemiguelvillar9074

3 жыл бұрын

Maravilloso!!!

Fantastic lesson Mike! It still boggles the mind at how they could take a song like that and make it their own. Once again, pure musical genius! Thanks so much for these videos. Hope that you are doing well.

@MPfrance

3 жыл бұрын

Saeple - Thanks - I am doing well. It's fantastic here in the south of France! And yeah - they were pure musical geniuses.

Another home run-- bravo! Great song and such tasteful licks from George.

Mike is the best teacher of Beatles songs on YT. This is another example of why.

Even the bass guitar was a real lefty like Paul's and played lefty too was quite impressive!!!! You are ambidextrous!

Total perfection, my friend!! I wish I could sing in that upper register, but not unless I got an operation.

I call this tune “till there were hand cramps!”. The version I play has too many bar chords and I end up cramping my hands and fingers. I’m seeing this version is a bit different, so thank you!

@JamesMacYT

3 жыл бұрын

I feel ya buddy 😂

@hepgeoff

3 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one who got hand cramps with this song. I hear ya!

@tomk1tl39

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto on the cramping with the bar chords......usually when that happens, I go to playing the 'triads' like Mike does........still the pain ain't any fun !

Finally, a KZread video with the correct rhythm patterns and voicings, thanks!

Just wanted to let you know how great it is to have such a talented person leading us through great pieces of music culture. I'm so glad that I grew up during the time of the Beatles! Thanks Mike!!!

@MPfrance

2 жыл бұрын

Joe - thank you - that was very of you to say. And yeah - I'm glad to have grown up with the lads also. Not that fun being as old as I am (lol) but it beats the antithesis!

I have always been fascinated by the complexity of the guitar arrangements in this track and to see them dissected and broken down is pretty striking. They were a consummate band - a collective creative genius. John’s brilliant driving rhythm and these complex, perfectly placed pieces woven in by George’s parts…all the right notes in the right places. It’s incredible. Great work piecing it all together and thank you for sharing it with us.

great lesson mike , how the heck these 20 year old master this tasty song is just beyond me , the solo always just knocks me out . you have the details down MIke very very well

Mike, you never disappoint. This song is the reason I am trying to learn guitar...Thanks. At age 71...lol.

Love this song .. I sing as part of jazz repertoire and now learning Beatle version on guitar. This song expresses my feelings about my relationship with Christ who gave me a new world view full of love. It is my love song to Christ. Chords in this song are very beautiful.

@andygrant56

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, stop it

@Stefandejager01

Жыл бұрын

Amen ... feel the same way

These lessons/demos you do for Beatles songs are just priceless. Thank you.

Thank you , excelent solo George !!!!

Mike, thank you so much for the time you invested on teaching us "Till There Was You". I totally enjoy your teaching technique.

What an ear you have! I really appreciate what you’re doing as I have been learning Beatle tunes for decades and finding someone like you that absolutely, meticulously breaks them down perfectly makes playing them even more fun! Thank you!

Wow. Thank you! When it came to the performance at the end, I was all set to concentrate on the guitar parts, but I ended up just being memorised watching the vocal performance. Spectacular!

Your love and passion for these Beatles treasures is awesome. I feel the same but my guitar skills are amature. I still can’t get enough of your videos. You bring The Beatles to life, note by note. Thank You.

absolutely phenomenal.

Just beautiful! Love playing along with your "band" at the end this video. With the way you presented these parts to us "regular" guys, I can now finally play our wedding song to my lovely wife. Thank you Mike, you're the best!

I've always loved this song-great job! And the interpretation of this song by four young lads from Liverpool-unbelievable!

Mike, an absolute classic & well done for managing to breakdown such a complex arrangement. How the lads worked this song out at such a young age (no internet or KZread!) is beyond comprehension! Marvellous....

Thanks so much, Mike, I was blown away by your tutorial and, of course, by your rendition of such a fabulous Beatles masterpiece !

As accurate as always with loads of info around it. Brilliant.

Thank you Mike for the many hours it took to put this together. Nicely done.

@stephensmith60

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

Beautiful job Mike, just perfect finish to a beautiful song. I`m sure John and George are looking down at you with a big smile on their face.

I've always loved the intertwining of guitars in this song

When we can see someone with all this talent and dedication of a lifetime play this song with great pleasure and enthusiasm, we can say that something great is being reproduced. Incredible how these boys through simplicity left an eternal and brilliant legacy. Lucky for us!

Wow! Mike - that was awesome! I'm looking at the John and George parts playing in such perfect harmony! I knew the Georges licks were tricky but had no idea how complex the chords that John was playing. (He never really got credit for being such damn good rhythm guitar player.

Mike, this was excellent! I’m a keyboardist and loves to play this. But hearing it on guitar the way the Beatles did it was priceless. Great job bro.👍👍👍

I saw " The Music Man " when I was ten in Toronto. Imagine my surprise when the Beatles covered it! I played this song for the Grade 8 class. ( Things changed for me.) George's solo is scrumptious! Great job, Mike!

Magnificent work Mike! I can’t thank you enough for reminding me how much I love this song and helping me understand why and for revealing it’s delights so beautifully. It’s good for the soul!

@MPfrance

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

My favorite beatles song! Been waiting for this lesson for a while. Thank you!

Thanks for presenting the back story as well as your excellent instructions and presentation...

You are an incredible musician. It's just so beautiful how you perform and explain Beatles' music. Simply brilliant! Thank you for a great guitar lesson.

Thank you for doing these lessons. I have been a beginner for 40 years, I am now excited to get serious and take lessons to play my guitars that till now have just been hanging on the wall. Thank you.

Mike I love your lessons and appreciation of the Beatles who were the best ever.

Mike; brilliant; I remember spending hours on end in the ‘60’s learning Beatles songs (into the early hours) and particularly “Till there was you” and after all these years you have given me the actual chord pattern used by the late great John Lennon. Many thanks…..unfortunately Paul Simon took over and I moved on to the Paul Simon Song book and entered the world off Folk Clubs around Manchester and Liverpool before ending up “getting a proper job” as my Dad would say……now retired i can revert back to my youth.

#1 Thank you for all that you do!!! I can’t get over this was recorded in 63. I’ll be 67 on July 7th same day as Ringo as watched The Beatles in Ed Sullivan. ( one of the lucky ones) keep up the great work. I’m also left handed and play drums right handed.

Yikes, could this work be an example of dedication meets talent meets superbrain? Yes! My faith in humanity is restored. Thank you Mike!

Great job! I always knew there were a lot of chord changes and the solo guitar of George was fantastic! Thanks for putting it all together!

Hi Mike! Thanks for answering my questions and your insights on this classic song! It is my favorite beatles song! Peace be with you!

I feel the same as Dave ... good teacher and his slow motions are awesome!

Great song. They were geniuses. I'd love to show this video to people who think that Beatles' songs are simple . Thanks Mike!

Hi Mike, I cant congratulate you enough on that lesson and rendition of till there was you. Not alone did you call into vogue the spectacular musicianship of the Beatles but you catapulted them to the level of the all time greats, such as Beethoven and Mozart, of which they truly belong. I thank you so much for showing the world the true master musicianship of the Beatles and indeed your own exponency of their music. With Thanks. Ronnie.

A beautiful arrangment, not Beatles,s own but, uncommon for boys in their twenties, but Paul was such a melodist who could draw his feelings into it , and make it their own, Thanks a million for doing it.

The best arrangement they did in those early days. Wonderful as always, Mike.

@MPfrance

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Another excellent video Mike. , I love all the history to the song as well. Still hoping you will hide you,r love away one day. Keep up the great work 👍

I really appreciate the break down of George's part - Thanks Mike!!

Just outstanding! Great job Mike!

This song is a gem and you nailed it. Thanks Mike.

That was great Mike! Thank you for posting your awesome talent.

Great job again Mike! You truly are "da man!"

By George! you have showed me how it's done in one lesson!! The Harrison part, and in context! At last I am learning the real cool stuff that I always had an ear for but was afraid to ask. Thanks Mike.

Wow, what a brilliant lesson! Thank you so much! I´ve tried (and failed) to play this for numerous years, but your lesson is so easy to follow and to get the main concepts of the song. Extremely helpful (like all your other Beatles tutorials).

@MPfrance

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Thanks for another great lesson...absolutely beautiful Gibson too ....I'm jealous 👌✌👍

Another masterpiece from the "surgeon of pop music" ! Bravo !

Dear Mike I saw them do this song on Ed's show back in the day. Your lesson version of this is rt on. When I look for Beatles music to play you are one of my top choices. GREAT LESSON BRO this music will never die and you put it out there like it needs to me. Peace out ❤ for the Beatles.

great work and art Mike, thank you very much. This is my favorite Beatles song for 50 years and it's still going on. Over the years I always come back to this beautiful song interprated by the Beatles. Your elaboration is by far the best that can be found on the internet.Your singing is also brilliant! I am curious about your other songs.

You are awesome Mr Pachelli... Thank you for all that precious info... You rock.. ✅🥊

Excellent performance.Thank you Mike.

Hi Mike, I really enjoyed watching you review this cover number by the Beatles. [Especially the part about Harrison's guitar work, which I see you really enjoyed displaying very well. Which is incidentally my favorite part of the song, as being interested in playing guitar later in my teens when I had become about the Beatles age as they were in the Ed Sullivan Show.] I remember when our parents turned on the Ed Sullivan show that night in February 1964. Our mother was screaming for John Lennon. Everything the Beatles performed live that night was like magic, as I recall. And I believe they performed this number, as I think you mentioned in your opening intro here. But there was something particular about the middle verse when George Harrison plays guitar, that caught my ear even as a nine and a half year old then. For some reason I thought Harrison's guitar work reminded me of the Jazz records our parents played on the home stereo. I can't remember the particular Jazz records now but there was Dave Brubeck and some old swing dance era orchestras from the late 1940s, that our father would play a lot on the home stereo. It took me many years later when I started picking up guitar myself and as a left-hander, I immediately started playing an acoustic guitar right handed, that sat idle around the house by the time I was then 18 1/2 years of age and just out of high school attending art college in 1973, that our little sister had given up on her guitar lessons. As I listen to that record again as a 19 year old and I was developing a further interest in jazz and maybe even Bossa Nova, or from a flamenco style of guitar playing. I realized what Harrison was playing back then at the young age of about 19 or 20 was phenomenal from what we usually only heard from pop rock groups, as simple major chord strumming. As I figured out some of the sliding chords, and fretting, it looks like diminished and augmented chords that would be played by Jazz guitarists, or even a little like Django Reinhardt, in late 40s to early 1950s swing era. It convinced me that I was confirmed that the Beatles were actually better than we originally thought. And that George Harrison was quite a mature guitar player for a very young guy in those days. I suppose many thought it as schmaltzy later, but I think it eventually showed that the Beatles gained a great eternal and future respect for their maturity. Thanks again for posting this great historical review on Till There Was You.

Mike, I do not know how to thank you for having made my time and enjoy again The Beatles music which made my time when i was in my early teen's and started playing my first cheap yet much beloved guitar. Now 55 years later I discovered your channel and your lessons and I found back the pleasure of picking up one of my guitars and playing along (not as good as you, unfortunately...).👍

Good one Mike!! Like the style you had on putting that song all together. A tribute to John and George for sure.

One of my favorites ! Done well and easy to understand. Thank you !

Really a very good lesson ,much more thorough than others,well done Mr.Pachelli

Hey Mike, your efforts, the content, the songs; such a well done job! I always end up sharing with guitarists across the talent and experience spectrum -- there's something for everyone. And of course, your infectious pleasure as you're playing and teaching!

@MPfrance

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Outstanding delivery and explanation opens up an entire new way of playing for me thanks 🤠🎸

Forensically brilliant again Mike. Thank you so much again.

It's a great video, Mike! I think how they heard the complex codes and what a good play of George! Thank you.