The rest of the Abbey Road Medley, by the Beatles.
Once I commit to a bit, I see it through, as evidenced by this being day 351 of this project.
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Put some more tracks and chaos into this, but it’s just as silly as yesterday, but it’s better than yesterday, but also there’s a verse missing here and there, and Her Majesty, well, I can do better. But it was fun.
A good chunk of the Abbey Road Medley, by The Beatles.
Uhhhh so this is 7 minutes of the Abbey Road Medley.
This suite of songs (start here), as far as I took it tonight, was of critical importance to, hmmm, maybe my senior year of high school? Then again, the closing lines of “The End” were my key summer camp yearbook quote the summer after 10th grade. Then again, “The End” by the Doors was a much more important song at summer camp. Then again, I tried to play My Sweet Lord three times and was interrupted by myself or the dog on each attempt.
Maybe I’ll play the rest of the medley tomorrow, just as unrehearsed.
(Also noticed after publishing this, I messed up the day count yesterday. Sorry if you were depending on me to know how many days long this year has been, ugh.)
Don’t Let Me Down, by the Beatles.
This song was the first attractive thing I spotted on the trending list of songs on the guitar chords website, I guess because of the Get Back documentary, which I will go watch some of now while applying some pressure on my bleeding hand which I don’t think I cut playing guitar earlier, nah, couldn’t be that.
Two Of Us, by the Beatles.
This song was a highlight of some alternative universe Let It Be anthology, I think? Or does John really make an Everly Brothers reference on the original? Or was Let It Be just the Beatles record I got into last, appropriately enough, having started early in life with mom’s vinyl copies of Meet The Beatles and Rubber Soul? I spent a solid chunk of my teenage years with the back half of Abbey Road on repeat, but feel like I didn’t give Let It Be the time of day until much later in my early twenties. 😉
I Will, by the Beatles.
This song is one I’ve seen in a songbook I’ve owned for probably going on 30 years, and it looked much, much harder before I bought a capo. Bit easier now! But not so easy that I don’t keep messing up the same parts on multiple tracks of guitar that I keep adding to cover up the mistakes on the first track, ha, ha ha.
Limping closer to the halfway point of this project — and 2021 — but it still feels like it’s all passing much more quickly than last year, doesn’t it?
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Oh, btw, I bought new headphones, and they’re better than ancient iPhone thingies, I think?
Also, I will work on the terrible guitar strap rubby noises that come through so clearly with the microphone and the guitar where they tend to be on quiet numbers like this one.
Yesterday, by the Beatles.
What’s the first Beatles song you can remember hearing as a kid? Is it this song? For some reason, I think maybe it’s this one for me, but then pretty quickly I took possession of my mom’s LPs of Meet the Beatles and Rubber Soul, so Michelle and a few others loom heavily in my early consciousness.
I could say more about the Beatles. But not right now, I’m exhausted.
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Just a simple (capo 5) set of changes, no big deal, always seemed harder than this before. This is one I might remix in the future to add, oh, idk, a string quartet, and piano and bass, and etc. but I’m not sure I ever noticed how short this song was before, too?