A Guide to 12 Acoustic Guitar-Based Tracks on The Beatles' 'White Album'
Guitar World takes a look at the acoustic guitar-based songs on the "White Album" -- how they were written and the process they went through to become finished tracks.
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"BLACKBIRD"
Recorded June 11, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Said to have been inspired by news of race riots in America, Paul McCartney's "Blackbird" -- rivaled, among Beatles songs, only by George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun" for sheer acoustic guitar virtuosity -- was recorded in a single session. The recording was especially efficient, with McCartney simultaneously fingerpicking his flowing counterpoint lines and singing while a metronome ticked away in the background.
After 32 attempts (11 of them complete), McCartney nailed the perfect take. As a crowning touch, he dubbed onto the recording the sound of chirping blackbirds, courtesy of the Abbey Road taped sound effects collection. George Martin was kept particularly busy during this session: While producing "Blackbird" in Abbey Road's Studio Two, he was also overseeing John Lennon's work on "Revolution 9" in Studio Three.
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bobby fischer
December 08, 2011 at 9:29pm
3 songs for Paul McCartney: "Live And Let Die" a good song. "Band On The Run" why not. But seriously "My Love" is very boring. How the author of this article may have forgotten song released in 1973 like "Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five" one of the best song of Paul McCartney. Still released in 1973 and approximately one hundred billion times better than "My Love". "Single Pigeon" a jewel of a lenght of 1:52, "Loup(1st indian on the moon" a very strange song. There are other good songs in 1973 like "When the night", "Little Lamb Dragonfly", "Bluebird", "Picasso's Last Words".
Another thing. A good Beatles'album is a album without a song sung by Ringo Starr.
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