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Just got into Abbey Road again, and I find Because and Sun King to have very beautiful melodies.
Have some quartet gigs coming up, and I definitely will play this tune. The harmony is simple, yet unusual---every brick in place, with beautiful voice-leading. The F-F Diminished (the latter a 'pivot' back to E Min, then functioning as a sort of E7th b9, b9 in the bass, to get to A) are a really nice surprise. Love the lyric, too---everyone can relate to what they're saying.
Here's a little chart w/a sort of rhumba feel, a la Jamal/Fournier on Poinciana (the original key is C# Min. E Min is more guitar-friendly):Last edited by fasstrack; 09-03-2017 at 09:58 PM.
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09-03-2017 09:30 PM
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I learnt a lot about voice-leading studying some Beatles stuff. Those guys could write a song.
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Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus
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Have you seen these films,
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond.
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years - Special Edition.
Well worth watching!
Music is the key that can open strange rooms in the house of memory.
Llewelyn Wyn Griffith
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Oops. On my chart I goofed: wrote B as the pickup to letter A, and 2 other times---instead of the correct note, E. Guess it was hard to hear w/the harmony underneath.
Here's the corrected chart:Last edited by fasstrack; 09-04-2017 at 10:29 AM.
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Just recorded it today, for future inclusion in Melody Messenger. 4 1/2 hours of grueling work to get an action-packed 2:47 (2 seconds longer than the Beatles) using 3 tracks. It was worth it. I like the track.
Who SAYS music isn't hard work?
Will post it when it's mixed...Last edited by fasstrack; 09-07-2017 at 01:33 PM.
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FWIW: Here's a preview of the track I just recorded for inclusion on Melody Messenger, a solo CD I recently finished. 3 tracks on this one, and I tried to use the lads' vocal harmonies in the arrangement:
(WTF? Tried to upload it and got an error message saying 'invalid file'. It's just a wav. Why did THAT happen?). Someone please tell me how to fix this so I can post the track. Thanks in advance, Joel
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I don't think I've ever gotten a file to successfully upload to this site, I always just host/link...
my guess on the .wav is that it's too darn big.
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Originally Posted by fasstrack
John
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I remember talking to Barney Kessel about The Beatles when he was teaching a seminar in Annapolis during the late 70's. He said that The Beatles single-handedly changed peoples' conception of what harmony and chord progressions could be. I agree.
The most beautiful solo guitar arrangement I have ever heard of Because is the one that classical guitarist John Williams plays on his Columbia record album "Changes".
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Originally Posted by John A.
Except that last sentence. Moonlight Sonata? I don't hear that at all. Did you mean the quasi-harpsichord intro? The rest of the tune is nothing like Moonlight Sonata to my ears...
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Originally Posted by Steven Herron
but Barney was probably doing a lot of studio work and was unaffected by their presence.
btw, many moons ago I caught Barney and Herb Ellis doing a duo show in town.
I'll never forget when Barney played a quote during one of his solos and it took me a minute to figure out what it was, then it dawned on me.....Eleanor Rigby!
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At long last---Mp3: (Gotta love this digital world---NOT)
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Originally Posted by fasstrack
There are a few variations on this theme in other interviews, which has morphed into the urban legend that Because is literally the Moonlight Sonata backwards (the opening arpeggio section has some similarity, but it's not completely the same). Sheesh, these kids today. They don't know anything ...
JohnLast edited by John A.; 09-13-2017 at 04:47 PM.
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Originally Posted by John A.
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Originally Posted by fasstrack
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Originally Posted by fasstrack
John
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Originally Posted by John A.
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Beautiful version of a beautiful tune ! Thanks for posting.
Coincidentally I was listening to Anthony Wilson's album Adult Themes last night, which also has a version of Because on it.
Wouldn't you know it, no jazz versions of a tune for 50 years and then 2 come along on the same day !
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Originally Posted by newsense
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I enjoyed the track, lots of feeling in the melody. Great song, Al DiMeola also has a version.
Last edited by JazzinNY; 09-14-2017 at 05:30 PM.
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Very cool Joel.
John
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Originally Posted by John A.
Um, could we make that 'Mr. Whippersnapper'?
(I'd adopt it as a nickname---but it doesn't sound Jewish enough)...
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Originally Posted by fasstrack
John
Elias Prinz -- young talent from Munich
Yesterday, 10:24 PM in The Players