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I don't necessarily mean gigging... but GTF's White Album thread got me to wondering: is there anybody besides me on this site who plays a bunch of Beatles songs?
If so, which songs in particular do you play?
Here are the ones I play:
You Never Give Me Your Money
Nowhere Man
Yesterday
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Something
Because
Dear Prudence
Blackbird
and I also play a guitar adaptation for McCartney's song Maybe I'm Amazed.
Most of these songs are a lot of fun to play. My instructor taught me all of them except for Nowhere Man and While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
I learned a lot by playing Beatles music. For instance, I learned the rudiments of accurate picking and chord arpeggiation via plectrum as a result of being taught to play Because, and got my first-ever groove going while playing the second movement of You Never Give Me Your Money. In addition, some of the chords I've learned while playing those songs are chords I've never seen anywhere else-- which is always interesting.
There's a descending progression that ends the verse in Maybe I'm Amazed that I find to be perfectly lovely. The chords are Bb, F, Ab, Eb, C... it's very pretty, but the progression is also useful for those beginning players who desire to practice the switching of barre chords while going from one shape to another. I know three different ways to play the progression offhand, and it's interesting to see how the different chord voicings compare to one another.
--R
If so, which songs in particular do you play?
Here are the ones I play:
You Never Give Me Your Money
Nowhere Man
Yesterday
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Something
Because
Dear Prudence
Blackbird
and I also play a guitar adaptation for McCartney's song Maybe I'm Amazed.
Most of these songs are a lot of fun to play. My instructor taught me all of them except for Nowhere Man and While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
I learned a lot by playing Beatles music. For instance, I learned the rudiments of accurate picking and chord arpeggiation via plectrum as a result of being taught to play Because, and got my first-ever groove going while playing the second movement of You Never Give Me Your Money. In addition, some of the chords I've learned while playing those songs are chords I've never seen anywhere else-- which is always interesting.
There's a descending progression that ends the verse in Maybe I'm Amazed that I find to be perfectly lovely. The chords are Bb, F, Ab, Eb, C... it's very pretty, but the progression is also useful for those beginning players who desire to practice the switching of barre chords while going from one shape to another. I know three different ways to play the progression offhand, and it's interesting to see how the different chord voicings compare to one another.
--R
