Paul's Piano Playing
-
Macsback:
WixRocks!:
Macsback:
Paul was the best at everything in the Beatles
I'd give Guitar and Sitar to George but, other than that......yeaaaaah.
why don't we compromise and just say Sitar
Geoff Emerick heaped tons of praise on Paul's guitar playing in his book, seemed to be quite critical of George's.
-
Martin Luther:
Macsback:
WixRocks!:
Macsback:
Paul was the best at everything in the Beatles
I'd give Guitar and Sitar to George but, other than that......yeaaaaah.
why don't we compromise and just say Sitar
Geoff Emerick heaped tons of praise on Paul's guitar playing in his book, seemed to be quite critical of George's.
I prefer George's style. Much more precise, and a little less...well, rocking.
-
I'm going with Geoff Emerick's version of events
-
Paul was the Beatles
-
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
-
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
-
I'm most impressed with his ability to play traditional, jazzy -- albeit, show-tune'ish -- songs like "If I Were Not Upon The Stage," etc. "You Gave Me The Answer" and "Lady Madonna" are among my favorite "air piano" songs. Paul knows a lot of intricate chords, but he seems to rely on them more with more traditional music.
-
CMackbird:
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
No argument here.
-
audi:
CMackbird:
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
No argument here.
He was the best aspect of The Beatles, no doubt. George was a force to be reckoned with at that time too.
-
Lady Madonna terrified me - I am only now getting it 'fluid' after about a month of practice. The thing about Paul's piano playing - and bass playing, for that matter - is Paul's ability to play these parts and sing the melody lines at the same time. Like Lady Madonna - I know many great piano players who play it with ease, but then ask them to sing it at the same time! Same with Day Tripper or Penny Lane on bass/vocals, all you fellow musicians out there know what I mean. But as far as piano playing, creativity surpassed technical abiltity most of time - music theorists are STILL debating the structure of the basic piano chords of Maybe I'm Amazed. they are baffled. Therein Paul's genius lies. Paul's magic wasn't just the voice or just the music - it was that magic synergy of both together.
-
audi:
CMackbird:
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
No argument here.
Yeah. Right. "I Am the Walrus," "Revolution," "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," "Julia," "Come Together," "Across the Universe" and "The Ballad of John and Yoko" are nothing. Hard to know how to react to that except laugh.
-
Bruce M.:
audi:
CMackbird:
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
No argument here.
Yeah. Right. "I Am the Walrus," "Revolution," "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," "Julia," "Come Together," "Across the Universe" and "The Ballad of John and Yoko" are nothing. Hard to know how to react to that except laugh.
Did anyone say they were nothing!? The majority of those songs were made a lot better by Paul. Same cant be said for John. Obviously touched a nerve for you to react like that.
-
Paul's piano parts usually aren't too hard. They just sound more complicated than they are! Like Lady Madonna or Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five - They sound tricky but once you get the hand of em they're really very simple and you almost don't have to think about playing them, which leaves you to sing without getting confused
-
CustomMadeDinosaurs:
Lady Madonna terrified me - I am only now getting it 'fluid' after about a month of practice. The thing about Paul's piano playing - and bass playing, for that matter - is Paul's ability to play these parts and sing the melody lines at the same time. Like Lady Madonna - I know many great piano players who play it with ease, but then ask them to sing it at the same time! Same with Day Tripper or Penny Lane on bass/vocals, all you fellow musicians out there know what I mean. But as far as piano playing, creativity surpassed technical abiltity most of time - music theorists are STILL debating the structure of the basic piano chords of Maybe I'm Amazed. they are baffled. Therein Paul's genius lies. Paul's magic wasn't just the voice or just the music - it was that magic synergy of both together.
I've all but given up on Lady Madonna. I can play one hand or the other but not both, let alone sing along. Same with 1985. I can play and sing the easier ones; Let it Be, Let 'em In, Hey Jude, Maybe I'm Amazed. I'm a much better bass player than piano player and don't have much of a problem playing and singing Day Tripper or Penny Lane. Songs I'll never get are I Saw Her Standing There and Obladi, and many others.
-
CMackbird:
Bruce M.:
audi:
CMackbird:
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
No argument here.
Yeah. Right. "I Am the Walrus," "Revolution," "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," "Julia," "Come Together," "Across the Universe" and "The Ballad of John and Yoko" are nothing. Hard to know how to react to that except laugh.
Did anyone say they were nothing!? The majority of those songs were made a lot better by Paul. Same cant be said for John. Obviously touched a nerve for you to react like that.
WTF??? You were there and know exactly what Paul and John contributed to each other's songs? But we do know, from Paul's own words, that John made a meaningful contribution to "Hey Jude" by convincing Paul not to take out the line, "The movement you need is on your shoulder."
-
Bruce M.:
CMackbird:
Bruce M.:
audi:
CMackbird:
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
No argument here.
Yeah. Right. "I Am the Walrus," "Revolution," "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," "Julia," "Come Together," "Across the Universe" and "The Ballad of John and Yoko" are nothing. Hard to know how to react to that except laugh.
Did anyone say they were nothing!? The majority of those songs were made a lot better by Paul. Same cant be said for John. Obviously touched a nerve for you to react like that.
WTF??? You were there and know exactly what Paul and John contributed to each other's songs? But we do know, from Paul's own words, that John made a meaningful contribution to "Hey Jude" by convincing Paul not to take out the line, "The movement you need is on your shoulder."
Yeah, I was there. I was the little songwriting fairy on each of their shoulders. I basically wrote all the songs. He told him to keep one line in the song so its basically his then eh : The amount of songs Paul wrote in that period and the consistency trounces the odd great tune from Lennon.
-
Bruce M.:
CMackbird:
Bruce M.:
audi:
CMackbird:
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
No argument here.
Yeah. Right. "I Am the Walrus," "Revolution," "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," "Julia," "Come Together," "Across the Universe" and "The Ballad of John and Yoko" are nothing. Hard to know how to react to that except laugh.
Did anyone say they were nothing!? The majority of those songs were made a lot better by Paul. Same cant be said for John. Obviously touched a nerve for you to react like that.
WTF??? You were there and know exactly what Paul and John contributed to each other's songs? But we do know, from Paul's own words, that John made a meaningful contribution to "Hey Jude" by convincing Paul not to take out the line, "The movement you need is on your shoulder."
Sorry Bruce, i'm with Cmacks on this, John's meaningful contributions were very few and far between on Paul's songs where as you can hear Paul meaningful contribution on practically every Beatles song, btw I wasn't there, I got my info from the same source you use. I won't hide the fact that i think Paul was better than John, imo it was Paul who gave The Beatles their unique sound, without him The Beatles would never have got out of Liverpool.
-
CMackbird:
Bruce M.:
CMackbird:
Bruce M.:
audi:
CMackbird:
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
No argument here.
Yeah. Right. "I Am the Walrus," "Revolution," "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," "Julia," "Come Together," "Across the Universe" and "The Ballad of John and Yoko" are nothing. Hard to know how to react to that except laugh.
Did anyone say they were nothing!? The majority of those songs were made a lot better by Paul. Same cant be said for John. Obviously touched a nerve for you to react like that.
WTF??? You were there and know exactly what Paul and John contributed to each other's songs? But we do know, from Paul's own words, that John made a meaningful contribution to "Hey Jude" by convincing Paul not to take out the line, "The movement you need is on your shoulder."
Yeah, I was there. I was the little songwriting fairy on each of their shoulders. I basically wrote all the songs. That's exactly what someone else said on here too. He told him to keep one line in the song so its basically his then eh : The amount of songs Paul wrote in that period and the consistency trounces the odd great tune from Lennon.
were you really a little songwriting fairy>? I think Paul overplays John's involvement on that ONE line, while we're at it, A Day in the Life would never have worked without Paul's input. just thought i'd add that
-
Bruce M.:
CMackbird:
Bruce M.:
audi:
CMackbird:
WixRocks!:
CMackbird:
Paul was the Beatles
....you are kidding, right?
A little bit. But from 67-70 he practically was.
No argument here.
Yeah. Right. "I Am the Walrus," "Revolution," "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," "Julia," "Come Together," "Across the Universe" and "The Ballad of John and Yoko" are nothing. Hard to know how to react to that except laugh.
Did anyone say they were nothing!? The majority of those songs were made a lot better by Paul. Same cant be said for John. Obviously touched a nerve for you to react like that.
WTF??? You were there and know exactly what Paul and John contributed to each other's songs? But we do know, from Paul's own words, that John made a meaningful contribution to "Hey Jude" by convincing Paul not to take out the line, "The movement you need is on your shoulder."
While I'm kinda split down the middle of this argument, I can see CMack's point - starting with at least the Sgt Pepper album, there are very few John contributions that stand out immediately while listening to any given Paul song which enhances the song any more than a session musician could..I know we have John's 'Can't get much worse' fills during 'Getting Better' and the point was made that John convinced Paul to leave that line in during Hey Jude...but that's small pickings compared to the 'Paul stamp' left on many John songs during the later stages of the Beatles tenure (on several George songs as well - such as his bass line on Something is very defining)
-
But to be fair - John admittedly lost interest in the Beatles during these latter years and thus, my comments aren't meant to compare the talents of the two