SteveW
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Beatles cover versions (whoops, accidentally posted the last message before I was done typing) 16-Aug-2012 00:50:37
| CorrsClub Time: 07-Aug-2026 18:22:37 |
I think often with Beatles covers, artists want to 'make the song their own' and will add vocal embellishments, melisma, etc., and they just end up over-singing or over-doing the song. (Here's an example (IMO): Joe Cocker's version of With a Little Help from my Friends. He takes a simple, charming song and makes it completely overwrought. Bertolf does not fall into this trap.
The Beatles's arrangements are almost always tasteful, and although they are excellent singers and musicians, they avoid having long and self-indulgent solos, pointless jams, and the like in their songs. (In fact, some of the best solos in Beatles songs were not played by the Beatles themselves -- e.g., the French horn in For No One, the trumpet in Penny Lane, the 'harpsichord' (really a sped-up piano) in In My Life.) In this way, I think the Beatles are similar to the Corrs, in that the musicianship is always in the service of the song, rather than calling attention to itself for the sake of virtuosity.
Steverino -- that's pretty cool about Bertolf and Pat Metheny. Now we just need a quote from Metheny saying that he likes Foster the People, and we would have a whole chain of AOTM!
Cara and Steverino -- yes, All You Need is Love sounds like 7/4 and 4/4 to me (two bars of 7/4, two of 4/4, and one more of 7/4). Sounds like Money is also in 7/4. I know I've heard other songs in 7/4 as well, but I'm not remembering what they are at the moment (Sting? Bruce Hornsby?)
Here Comes the Sun has some odd time signatures, too, especially in the bridge ("Sun, sun, sun, here it comes"). There's also an unusual grouping of 16th notes in the guitar part after "It's all right" in the chorus. Instead of grouping the sixteen 16th notes as 4 4 4 4, they are grouped as 3 3 3 3 4, which is responsible for the 'jerky' rhythm. Here's a page with a very detailed discussion of the song, which is interesting but pretty much beyond my level of understanding.
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