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0:00 Introduction.
1:05 From Me To You.
2:11 I'll Follow The Sun.
3:08 Yesterday.
3:49 I Feel Great.
4:27 And I Love Her.
5:05 A Difficult Day's Night.
6:20 Girl Madonna.
8:01 Hooktheory.
8:52 Norwegian Wood.
10:21 Nowhere Male.
12:11 8 Days A Week.
14:00 Outro.
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Great video as always David. Another peculiarity in Beatles songs is when in the intro they do a shortened version of the chorus like in Help and Can’t Buy Me Love
It’s like getting to watch the trailer followed immediately by the whole movie lol
Isn’t that pretty common though?
I don’t think it’s so common but I could be wrong
@@ri3545 I think the Beatles are known for popularising it. “She Loves You” is a famous example of jumping straight into the chorus. How many other famous examples of this can you name? Not too many, I guess.
@@fabioalbertani945 I’ve definitely heard it a lot. Obviously it’s not the majority of songs, but I don’t think it’s that uncommon
I think that is what made The Beatles stand out from other “British Invasion” or “Mod” acts of the time; those classic American 30s-50s influences makes their work timeless yet familiar and comfy.
Yes, thanks to Macca’s dad’s influence for one (as mentioned in the video), probably George Martin helping with the structure/arrangement as well
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Nice to see “I’ll Follow the Sun” getting a little love. It’s one of Paul’s less-acclaimed melodies, perhaps — even by Paul.
(On the other hand hand hand, “Follow” was also George Martin’s favorite track on _Beatles For Sale._ So it’s got that going for it; which is nice.)
It’s definitely one of my favorites. Very folk. Almost like a great Dylan song, but with actual good vocals
That is hard to believe. That is such a beautiful little song! It almost brings tears to my eyes
@@DenKulesteSomFins oh come on. The “Bob Dylan can’t sing” trope is so dumb. Bob’s distinctive voice is honestly a huge part of the appeal
I’ll Follow the Sun is a GREAT song. It has that quality great songs have, which is that they seem always to have existed.
I have heard an audiotape of McCartney which is probably from 1960. He has the idea for the song, but at that point, all he has is singing the line, “I’ll follow the sun” over and over. It’s fascinating to hear.
“Things we said today” is a truly outstanding example, a lot of songs slacken off somewhat in the bridge, this one jumps in energy and firms up moving seamlessly in, then back out to the verse.
My favourite on A Hard Day’s Night
From minor to major. Even the teenage girls dug it. Listen to live versions
An underappreciated song all around. I love the 2009 remastered version, which brought out George Martin’s menacing, rolling piano underneath Paul’s vocal. It adds to the breathtaking tension of that middle eight.
“Love is here to stay and that’s enough to make you mine”
This line blew me away because it so seamlessly ended the middle eight and went into the next verse. Its a complete line in itself but can also be broken into two parts
@@prettyshinyspaghetti8332 One of my favourite things about lyrics is when each line makes reference to the last in a very concrete way so that the entire text feels like a cohesive web rather than just a bunch of lines that sometimes go together (which is most often how songs are and is completely fine). My go to example is Stromae’s ave cesaria, which, I guess if you don’t speak French, you won’t really get, but every single line just makes me go “ooooh,” which is itself my single favourite thing about lyrics. I don’t want them to just pass by unnoticed, I want them to catch my interest one way or another — sometimes sheer easy memorability is enough to do that. But yeah that line in Things We Said Today absolutely does that for me.
The real question is, has ABBA ever used AABA?
I think that would need Björn again.
Safe to say, they never used a C-Part, though … 😉
So I read your comment and thought of a double beef burger and two middle eights, and wondered if there are any ABBA songs?
But has Genesis ever used Abacab ?
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Dear David- You’re a Great music teacher and have re-re-reignited my love and respect for the Beatles. Thank you!
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Same here!
I always get inspired to dive deeper into songwriting myself.
Michael Stipe describes “Losing My Religion” as a song without a chorus, which is why he was surprised it was such a big hit. I’m thinking I should listen to it again now and see if maybe this explanation is a better fit for its structure
Funny I just looked that song up a couple days ago interested in how some of the things Ive learned from David’s videos would apply. Was surprised to learn not only is there no real chorus but the whole song is simple chord progressions from key of A minor (A Aeolian). On top of that, Michael Stipe only sings two notes (B and A) for 90% of the song, with the occasional G or C thrown in. Goes to show how talented REM is by turning the most basic chord progressions/melodies into something amazing.
Those recreated Beatles tracks have got really good. It’s dangerously easy to forget that you’re not listening to the original.
You understand it’s not ‘AI’ so called? It’s a band “Ably House.” They’ve made these recreations for years.
Came to say exactly this 😊
@@allancerf9038 Yes, I’m aware they’re recreated ‘manually’, I wasn’t thinking about AI.
Exactly my thought. As I read through the fine print at the bottom that had the name of the performer, I thought how many great Beatles tribute bands out there!!! They are REALLY good.
I’ve noticed the Ably House tracks are listed as “recreations” and the other ones as “covers”. When I search the Ably House YouTube page I see a lot of instrumental covers of Beatles songs. I think David is taking the Ably House instrumentals and putting the original Beatles isolated vocals on top, hence dubbing them a “recreation” rather than a “cover”. For the other credited covers you can clearly tell it’s other people singing.
“Things We Said Today” from A Hard Day’s Night is my favorite Beatles middle eight. The tempo picks up and you can practically hear the seams in the production where they dropped it in to the song. It’s so good, they ran through it it twice!!
Can we please get this good man to 1m subscribers? The best song structure analysis to be found on YouTube.
thank you!!
@@DavidBennettPiano you’ll get there soon, patience master. 😉
IMO, it’s so good it should be funded by the government as a necessary utility. Not joking.
Your videos are so intelligent, so profound, so well made and they show so much passion for music. And they show also, what we can learn from the Beatles and George Martin, which for me is the 5th Beatle. Thank you for your work and your passion!!
I just love hearing all these great Beatles songs one after the other! The older I get, the more I love their music. Thank you David.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the sheer amount of flawless recreations the Ably House guys have put out that allow genuine sounding audio to be played without striking out on the copyright deal!!
Ascap or BMI could still get them with a cover recording.
Ably house is amazing on the instruments but I’m pretty sure David has put the original lyrics over the top.
@@jeffh8803 Yes, those sound like the original vocal tracks to me as well. That said, this is a fantastic video, with the concepts once again brilliantly explained by David. This channel is a treasure.
The Beatles were so good at writing melody hooks that every section was effectively a “chorus”. It blows my mind.
I love a good middle 8, like a song within a song, and consider it an art form unto itself.
David how crazy is it that we both used Somewhere Over The Rainbow as our classic AABA song?! Thanks again for doing the collab video and to David’s fans who made it over to my video as well! Let’s do it again!
I think Over The Rainbow is the true archetype 🙌🏻🙌🏻😊 pleasure collaborating with you!
@@DavidBennettPiano — Wonderful song.
I just checked: not crazy at all, actually. The proper authorities have been informed. 😮
You think that’s crazy? The song almost got canned by a studio head! He said it had no place in the movie! 😮
The Beatles are the band that I associate the term “Middle 8” with. You’d think they were the ones who invented it with how they were able to use it to such great effect.
The fact that it’s really a remnant of a much older era of songwriting is a nice fact in itself. I feel like Paul being influenced by show tunes may have played a part in the Beatles’ massive success among American audiences by adding an appealing British twist to the familiar American song structure.
The next time I listen to music, I’m going to try and identify any “Middle 8s” I come across. I may even update this comment if I find any.
The AABA format is fairly common among classical Christian hymns. Some that I can think of are “Let All Things Now Living” & “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing”, which are set to the Welsh folk tune “The Ash Grove”; “Thy Strong Word”, “Oh the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus”, & “Through the Night of Doubt & Sorrow”, which are set to the Welsh hymn tune “Ebenezer”; “Son of God, Eternal Savior”, “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy”, & “Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling”, set to Dutch folk tune “In Babilone”; “Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers”, set to Swedish folk tune “Haf Trones Lampa Fardig” (or “Keep Your Trimmed Lamps Ready” in English); “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”; “Christ the Lord is Risen Today”; & “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” (almost, in the final line’s second measure, the second note comes on beat two instead of three in lines one & two).
My fav fab4 middle8 is in No Reply… “lf I were you, I’d realize…” Amazing shift which transforms the song and the mood if the song and lyrics. Amazing stuff!
It’s funny because I’ve always considered these AABA as songs that start with a chorus, as opposed to more usual ‘don’t bore me get to the chorus’ type of songs. It’s interesting how they approached songs as well. Can’t Buy Me Love started as a 12-bar rock with a middle-8, but George Martin stuck half the middle-8 to the beginning effectively turning the middle-8 into a more recognisable chorus by the time we listen to it after the two 12 bar verses.