Breaking Down Nowhere Man PART 1

Описание: Greetings! In today's two-parter we're breaking down Nowhere Man from The Beatles' Rubber Soul.
I'll talk about the background, including some important context of popular music and culture in 1965 (think pot, Dylan and The Byrds). We'll hear some of John's reflections of writing this classic song.
Of course, we'll break the song down top to bottom. All the chords, lyrics and melody. I have timestamps below if you wanted to jump right into that!

In Part 2 we break down isolated tracks (vocals, bass line, drums). Full notation and analysis of the vocals as well as notation of the bass line.

*SPECIAL SHOUT-OUT to two phenomenal YouTube channels - Rock Band Stems and Isotracks. I pulled from Isotracks for the vocals and Rock Band Stems for the bass line and Ringo's drumming. You can go down quite the rabbit hole in those channels so go check them out if you like to hear isolated tracks like I do (maybe a little too much!). I'll definitely use them again for upcoming Beatle breakdowns.

Timestamps:
0:00 Audio clips copyright issue
1:52 Introduction/some context
2:34 1965 – the year folk and rock combined
3:00 Bob Dylan’s folk to rock arc
3:34 (Bringing It All Back Home and Highway ’61)
4:00 Dylan evolution an example for the Beatles mid-60’s evolution
4:48 Marijuana as creative catalyst
5:10 Rubber Soul lyrics evolution from album 1-5
6:20 John’s crisis of confidence in ‘65
7:02 Touring/production pressures in ’64-‘65
8:30 The Byrds influence
9:42 Nowhere Man: Beatles first existential pop song
10:11 Voice of John Lennon – recollecting creative process
10:50 Nowhere Man: simplicity with a rich arrangement
11:05 Using a folk style in Nowhere Man
11:40 Channel plug (Like and Subscribe!)
12:45 Nowhere Man – who plays what
13:44 Key/Chords inventory
15:04 Voicing for F#m7
16:28 Verse - Chord Progression
17:12 (Is first and last verse a Chorus or a verse?)
18:20 Verse - Harmonic analysis
18:37 George's guitar obligato
19:35 Verses - Melodic analysis
22:08 “Isn’t he a bit like you and me?”
23:10 Bridge – Chord Progression
24:35 Bridge - Melodic analysis
25:20 (harmonic anticipation in melody)
26:18 Guitar solo
26:39 Recording process for double guitar solo
28:30 Guitar solo melody – mirror of verse melody?
29:35 Song ending breakdown
31:17 Overall song structure – again, kind of a mirror!
32:15 CHECK OUT Part 2 for isolated tracks!!

Thanks for watching!