There's A Place- The Beatles (Guitar Cover)

Описание: I'm excited to present this cover to you, as it is my favorite early Beatles song!
For anyone unsure, George is on the top of the screen and John is on the bottom

The Beatles recorded it on February 11th, 1963. This was the same day they recorded most of the songs for their Please Please Me album. They recorded ten takes, and then John overdubbed his harmonica onto take ten

Like most of their first album, George and John used their acoustic-electric Gibson J-160e guitars plugged into their fawn colored Vox amps: John's Vox AC15 Twin, and George's Vox AC-30. John's vocal mic picked up his acoustic strumming as well, so you hear a blend of acoustic and electric for his guitar

John's strumming pattern was difficult to figure out, and I watched ‪@MichaelSokil‬ cover to get some help. John switches between down-strums, up-down-up strums, and sometimes a unique down-down-up-up pattern, in no particular order. I made notes while listening to the isolated guitar track to find out when he's doing each pattern

I'm using my 1966 Gibson J-160e, all original except the vintage replacement tuners. My J-160 is typical of mid-late 1960's Gibsons in that it has a cherry sunburst finish, unlike John and George's brown sunburst 1962's. I'm using Ernie Ball Pure Nickel 11 gauge roundwound strings

For George's part, I just mic'd the amp directly. For John's I mic'd both the amp and the acoustic guitar directly, and blended the two signals

INTERESTING NOTES:
0:01 John hammers-on the A-string to the second fret
0:04 John again does the same hammer-on, in the middle of his intro strumming
0:06 George hits the last note of the intro (C-sharp) slightly late
0:21 George doesn't play the ascending B scale notes as cleanly as you'd think. He intends to hit C-sharp after B but slides up from B to C. Then slides up sloppily to Eb
0:24 George plays an A7 bar chord
0:37 George slides from G to G sharp on the Low E string, instead of just hitting the G sharp
0:52 John plays some syncopated strums on B
1:11 George strums hard on open E5 and A5 chords here, instead of playing the single B and G-sharp notes like the previous verses
1:24 George plays a similarly sloppy ascending B scale run like before, but starts by sliding into B from Bb

MY GEAR:
1966 Gibson J-160e
2010's Vox AC-30C2X
Neumann TLM-103
Shure SM57 (John's Amp)

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