Till There Was You

[ecca]

With the Beatles - what a groundbreaking LP.
We ended up doing about 7 songs from it on stage.
John's rhythm playing alone on All My Loving was brilliant , apart from the melody, the chord flow, the words and the lovely, lovely solo.

[cockroach]

And Paul did a great bass part on All My Loving- if you watch live clips, he seemed to have worked out all the notes and runs to be playable in the first four frets of the bass with open string notes included, so that he could sing the lead vocal and play the runs with all four fingers-one per fret-without having to move around further up the neck and keep looking at his hand position- similar to the way a stand up bass player might have worked the bass line out.

Yeah, they were bloody clever! Always used plenty of different chords (major sevenths, minor sevenths, sixths, ninths etc) and great use of augmented and diminished chords to give nice chromatic bottom and/or top lines to complement the melody lines and chord changes. Tasty indeed!

[Martin Page]

And Paul did a great bass part on All My Loving- if you watch live clips, he seemed to have worked out all the notes and runs to be playable in the first four frets of the bass with open string notes included, so that he could sing the lead vocal and play the runs with all four fingers-one per fret-without having to move around further up the neck and keep looking at his hand position- similar to the way a stand up bass player might have worked the bass line out.

Yeah, they were bloody clever! Always used plenty of different chords (major sevenths, minor sevenths, sixths, ninths etc) and great use of augmented and diminished chords to give nice chromatic bottom and/or top lines to complement the melody lines and chord changes. Tasty indeed!

I love the augmented chord that they play at the end of the From Me To You middle eight...

Martin.

[JimN]

And Paul did a great bass part on All My Loving- if you watch live clips, he seemed to have worked out all the notes and runs to be playable in the first four frets of the bass with open string notes included, so that he could sing the lead vocal and play the runs with all four fingers-one per fret-without having to move around further up the neck and keep looking at his hand position- similar to the way a stand up bass player might have worked the bass line out.

Yeah, they were bloody clever! Always used plenty of different chords (major sevenths, minor sevenths, sixths, ninths etc) and great use of augmented and diminished chords to give nice chromatic bottom and/or top lines to complement the melody lines and chord changes. Tasty indeed!

I love the augmented chord that they play at the end of the From Me To You middle eight...

Martin.

That chord in that part of that song was the clear influence for the similar turn-around out of the middle eight on the Rutles' I Must Be In Love.

Hear it at 0:50 in: