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The Beatles, She Loves You - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
YouYube ^ | April 30, 2023 | Amy Shafer

Posted on 05/08/2023 6:12:16 PM PDT by grundle

I found this song to be both charming and imaginative. The Beatles' ability to handle common material in a fresh way is clearly evident in this song.

Amy Shafer, LRSM, FRSM, RYC, is a classical harpist, pianist, and music teacher, Director of Piano Studies and Assistant Director of Harp Studies for The Harp School, Inc., holds multiple degrees in harp and piano performance and teaching, and is active as a solo and collaborative performer. With nearly two decades of teaching experience, she teaches privately, presents masterclasses and coaching sessions, and has performed and taught in Europe and USA.

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49 minute video. Very detailed.
1 posted on 05/08/2023 6:12:16 PM PDT by grundle
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Wow! What a coincidence. First time I’ve ever heard that song too. /s


2 posted on 05/08/2023 6:22:09 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: grundle

Never could stand that song. Later years they got away from that sort of pop crap and became listenable.

Just me, yeah yeah..


3 posted on 05/08/2023 6:27:19 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: grundle

It’s better on a 45


4 posted on 05/08/2023 6:29:03 PM PDT by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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To: doorgunner69

Agree. Revolver is when they start to get interesting for me.


5 posted on 05/08/2023 6:39:42 PM PDT by Yardstick
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Revolver is when they start to get interesting for me.

That's funny, that's when they started to go downhill for me. Too much drugs and experimental stuff, not enough melody and harmony. Although I do like "And Your Bird Can Sing" off of Revolver. Otherwise, my experience is similar to Don Draper's.

Mad Men - Tomorrow Never Knows
6 posted on 05/08/2023 6:45:36 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: grundle

My favorite Beatles’ song is “I Wanna Hold Your Hand”.

My apologies to those who liked them after that. I know I’m in the minority.


7 posted on 05/08/2023 6:49:55 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: grundle

As a beginner in Piano at age 79 I was very interested to hear Amy’s take on “She Loves You”. Thanks for the post. I loved “Yesterday” and so many more.


8 posted on 05/08/2023 6:56:41 PM PDT by teletech (you)
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To: grundle

I love when she tells us she was warned about the “yeah, yeah, yeah” part. Then I remembered in the movie “Peggy Sue Got Married”, she tried to give her future husband the tune and lyrics in 1960, saying it would be a big hit. He liked it, except he changed “yeah, yeah, yeah” to “oh, oh, oh”.


9 posted on 05/08/2023 7:01:27 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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Never could stand that song. Later years they got away from that sort of pop crap. . .

Okay. I'm a classical musician. This is not pop crap. The Beatles may not be everyone's cup of tea. The marvel is that they became MOST people's cup of tea. This doesn't happen by accident.

She Loves You shattered the pop music industry when it came out because it was so much more deft, original, polished, intelligent, and imaginative than 99.9 percent of any popular music out there. And most important, it was more emotionally engaging--something typical of their music. I remember when it was released, and it justly put everything else on the charts in the shade.

The Beatles were just lower-class, mostly Irish boys from Liverpool--right across the water from Dublin. But they were much more imaginative and skillful than most pros in that business. They were lucky that they had a towering genius for an arranger as well, and that they were willing to learn from him.

That's why they blew up the music business and re-made it in their image. They were better, right out the gate (after years of work in England) than anyone in the business.

I'm not in love with every song they've ever done. But so what. Their standard of creation and performance has had no peer in popular music in my lifetime--which is long. They deserve it all, and we should be thankful for them.

10 posted on 05/08/2023 7:05:18 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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Well said Samurai.


11 posted on 05/08/2023 7:10:44 PM PDT by AloneInMass (You'd think there would be more similarity between "chain letter" and "chain mail".)
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To: SamuraiScot

Geez, so you love them, I get it.


12 posted on 05/08/2023 7:35:22 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: grundle

Better song. I do not think these are the instruments they used....

Beatles - I Feel Fine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrAV5EVI4tU


13 posted on 05/08/2023 7:57:33 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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Leonard Bernstein was often seen at Creem concerts. When asked why he made an exception to only go to their rock concerts and not others he said “Well, their drummer keeps good time.”


14 posted on 05/08/2023 8:57:31 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: SamuraiScot
As a drummer I always liked the way Ringo does a sort of tumbling 4/4 intro to this song.

It comes right at you. There's a rawness to a lot of this song. "Rock a billy'' as it were.

15 posted on 05/08/2023 9:06:37 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: grundle

i know opinions vary, but this is just a great driving pop/rock song. as a musician, i love it.

power chord (interval) harmony in the vocals and quick guitar fills, high energy, great syncopation in the drum intro, and she’s right. that 6th chord just pours gas on the ‘yeah’ fire. really a stroke of genius in vocal harmony. it all works together in a song.


16 posted on 05/08/2023 11:12:16 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: grundle
Peter Sellers: She Loves You
Ja!
Ja!
Ja!

17 posted on 05/09/2023 1:48:34 AM PDT by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: grundle

Seen her vids...she is way too wordy for a 3 min song. She could do this one in 10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll1fAC6rEek

I like this guy much better...but then I am interested in harmony...I never realized just how complex their songs were.


18 posted on 05/09/2023 3:23:15 AM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: SamuraiScot

Growing up with the Beatles truly got me into pop music as it was so fresh and lively and so different from the bubblegum schlock I was hearing on the radio.

That they played their own instruments was so different from other US bands who relied on session players - BeachBoys, etc - and their playing was tight. Certainly George Martin was helpful in polishing their sound but the songwriting was so superior to others at the time.

Beginning with Rubber Soul, the Beatles evolved from pop band to a creative studio project - from the songwriting to using the studio in their creations.

Amazing their great trilogy - Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper - was released in just an 18-month period.

Dec,1965 - Rubber Soul
August, 1966 - Revolver
June,1967 - Sgt Pepper

After my freshman year at Cincinnati, I moved to Hollywood with plans to transfer to UCLA. One Sat afternoon, my old clock radio sitting atop the refrigerator was tuned to KHJ. and I was hearing songs I’d never heard before. The guest DJ would speak about the song or what was happening in studio during the recording sessions.

The album being played? The “White” album
The guest DJ? George Harrison

A week later the album was released and I bought it at a small shop on Sunset.


19 posted on 05/09/2023 3:47:27 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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You’re making the standard case for the early Beatles and of course there’s a lot of truth to it. “Pop crap” is more a comment on the format that the Beatles were confined to early on. You can hear their potential in their early work but it wasn’t until they left the confines of 2 minute pop tunes that they started to accomplish what they were capable of.


20 posted on 05/09/2023 4:40:11 AM PDT by Yardstick
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