I Need You- The Beatles (Guitar Cover)

Check out my bass cover of I Need You-    • I Need You- The Beatles (Bass Cover)   The Beatles recorded I Need You on February 15th, 1965- the first day of the Help! album sessions. The backing track consisted of George on his Ramirez Classical Guitar and vocals, Paul on Hofner Bass, Ringo tapping the back of a Gibson J-160e Acoustic Guitar, and John hitting a Snare Drum The following day, overdubs consisted of Cowbell, Vocals, and George's famous Rickenbacker 360/12 12-string part- played into a volume pedal. George plugged the volume pedal into a Vox AC-100 amp John does NOT play guitar on this song. This unusual personnel was detailed by George Martin himself, in thorough session notes, notes he also took for other Help! recording sessions. Our podcast ‪@GearThereEverywhere‬ will be covering the contents of these notes in an upcoming episode! Some more details on George's guitar parts: he strummed his Classical guitar using a pick. Atypical for playing classical spanish guitar, but George played his Ramirez with a pick often (And I Love Her, Till There Was You, etc.). The brand of volume pedal George used is unknown. George Martin only lists him on 'foot pedal'. But it's possible he used the volume pedal included with either the Vox Continental organ or Hohner Pianet that The Beatles used in the studio I believe that I was able to disprove a theory that George used a capo on the 4th fret for the Rickenbacker 12-string part. Some people realized it was easy to play it this way in an F chord shape. But playing it this way with the capo would result in an octave C# note, which is not heard. George plays the C# note (A major chord) on the 2nd fret of the B-string, which on a 12-string is doubled, not an octave string I'm playing my Admira Irene Spanish Classical Guitar, and my 1999 Rickenbacker 360/12V64. The Rickenbacker is plugged into my Lehle Mono Volume Pedal, into my Vox AC-30C2X amp INTERESTING NOTES: George's Classical: 0:03 George goes to Asus4 slightly early 0:13 George transitions to the D chord before the downbeat 0:16 George again goes to Asus4 early 0:40 George stays on A major here, instead of going to Asus2 0:53 Both guitars go to A-augmented: X03221 0:58 George plays latin-inspired rhythmic flourishes throughout the middle-eight 2:01 George goes to the D before the downbeat again 2:03 George plays A to Asus2 to A again, before going to Asus4 2:17 George goes to the F#m early, before the downbeat 2:24 George plays the A before the downbeat, and does a different Asus pattern George's Rickenbacker 12-string: 0:15 George goes from A to Em/A (X02000). The Classical stays on normal Asus2 without the open G-string 0:19 George plays the F#m chord after the downbeat 0:57 George swells in a subtle E major chord 1:05 George plays the B major to Bm chords barred on the 7th fret. I confirmed this, because you hear his octave Eb and D notes (played down at X24442, the Eb would be doubled-strings not octave). Also, he plays the Bm chord late here 1:07 George plays E here as 079900. When he hits the two notes at the end of the middle-eight, the first note is B/E together, then a single E 1:35 George does not play the A-augmented chord here 2:18 George picks F#m once and swells multiple times after with his volume pedal 2:21 George picks D5 once and swells multiple times. He doesn't play the high E-string, so it's just XX023X 2:25 George scrapes the strings a little bit, so the Asus2 sounds clicky MY GEAR: 1999 Rickenbacker 360/12v64 (replaced Rickenbacker Scatterwound Toaster Pickups) Admira Irene Spanish Classical Guitar Lehle Mono Volume Pedal Vox AC-30C2X Neumann TLM-103 #thebeatles #help #rickenbacker