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Careful study of Paul's first "aaah" will show
that half way through the pitch flattens
slightly.
* NEW * I do know that Lewisohn states
clearly that this recording is one complete
take, and that the following take was useless
because John's voice was shredded. Having said
that, I'll try and make this next sentence
clearer, because it's causing some readers
stress ...
>This seems like an edit between two takes,
although only one basic take was recorded (the
second being abortive due to John's voice being
gone!).
I say "seems like" because it is
uncharacteristic for John or Paul to sing out of
tune like that, and it is odd (fortuitous?) that
he corrects it on a beat. This makes it feel
like, I say, feel like, the joining of two
takes, or of an edit piece. But as this cannot
be the case, then John just snapped his pitch
down realising his mistake.
Thanks to Stephen Moss for pointing out the
error that no-one noticed, all of this was
originally attributed to Paul's voice. The order
of the "aah's" is clearly John first, Paul and
George together next (but one of these is very
faint). We discussed this, and came up with the
following. Discuss ...
1 bar John (Note A)
1 bar Paul (Note C#) and George faintly, fade in
(Note F#) (Making chord A6th)
1 bar George (Note E)
1 bar Paul (goes to Note G) (Making chord A7th)
Then Paul and John jump up notes, I believe
John takes Paul's note (Note C#), Paul goes
wild.
Let's see how that grabs people ... either
way it's still an anomaly :) |
