Here, There and Everywhere - The Beatles - Full Instrumental Recreation (4K)

Hey guys! Nice to see everyone again! I decided to do a deep dive into "Here, There and Everywhere" due to - spoiler alert - an upcoming episode of our podcast. I thought this would be a fun, simple cover. Not the case! Every track has something interesting and unique going on, and I still have some unanswered questions. How did Paul manage to get that dry, snappy tone? Is that two Strats on the lead riffs, or could it be a Rickenbacker 12-string? Is Paul using his fingers on the bass or a pick? I did my patented Michael Sokil OCD-esque full immersion, and I came to these conclusions: Ringo is playing the drums with mallets, which is clear when you hear the dull attack on the cymbals. His fills are pretty straightforward - linear and uncomplicated - unitl that last fill, which I loved figuring out. Very cool to notice a Ringo-esque swing fill in this plain, romantic ballad. Paul's guitar playing is pretty much just his ordinary simple acoustic fingerpicking style. Two fingers only, thumb and index. In my "research," I realized that this might be the only Beatles tune with Paul fingerpicking an electric guitar. The only other possibilities are something subtle like the buried rhythm guitar on "Good Day Sunshine" (thumb sweeping) or maybe the lead fills on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." I do hear the same tone and fingerpicking on the McCartney song "That Would Be Something" - the tone is actually very close. I also cheated considerably by picking and choosing from my best takes to match Paul's quirky style. For some reason, fingerpicking my Casino was surprisingly unnatural. I wonder if Paul's was more playable than mine. Not sure! Paul's bass overdub is surprisingly awesome. He plays two or three neat fills during the song, then breaks out a really cool fill at the end I'd never heard before. The isolations reveal all! I concluded he's using a pick because I'm hearing a chord in those transitional fills, but I won't rule out that he might've used his fingers. The lead guitars are a mystery. They're on the basic track, and either it's two guitars (John and George) or it's George or John on a Rickenbacker 12-string. If you listen to the outtakes on the Revolver reissue, you can hear that (1) the riffs are shorter on the basic track, which means they were extended in the overdub, and (2) there are indeed slight timing differences in the riff, which to me makes it more likely it's two separate guitars. But I won't rule out the 12-string - I recorded a version of the riffs with my 360-12c63 and it's very close! I'll put out a second version with the 12-string soon. Props to Sam Popkin to opening my eyes to the possibility of 4 Strats on the track. Awesome song. I hope you guys like the annotations - I think it's a cool way to illustrate some of the things I hear on the track while you're watching the cover. Let me know what you think!