Beatles - Hold Me Tight Guitar Secrets -- No Backing Tracks
Beatles guitar lesson ****ALTERNATE VERSION**** I've republished WITHOUT BACKING TRACKS due to USA blocking. PLEASE: Read video description below BEFORE COMMENTING. Redundant comments or questions will be deleted. I eliminated a the 2nd verse, the firsts bridge and the 3rd verse. This is a 1966 Gretsch Country Gentleman played through a Vox AD15VT set to AC30TB w/ no effects. Min Bass, Min Mid, Max Treble. .010 -.046 nickel plated wire wound strings. The main lead riffs are not single notes, rather they are played on top of chord figures, so that the picking style, which favors the lower strings, is what gives the sense of a melody. Lennon’s part is the top guitar which he played on his Ric 325. His strumming is similar to ‘I Saw Her Standing There’. The bottom guitar is Harrison’s part which he played on his Country Gentleman. The lead is very tiring despite being quite simple. Despite lots of info to the contrary, I am convinced that the song was recorded in the key of F. Listening to studio takes 22, 23 and 24 shows that they sang and played at the same time and recorded in the key of F. No tabs. • Video The electric guitars are played through a Vox AD15VT set to AC30TB with min bass, min mid and max treble and the amp is close mic recorded with a Tascam DR01 hand-held digital recorder. Acoustic guitars are recorded with the Tascam DR01 hand-held digital recorder about 12 inches away from the neck and midway between the 12th fret and the sound hole. Effect effects are added during mixing. My performance, with compression, is mixed with the backing tracks and the whole mix is limited. This is the way the Beatles recorded these early tunes. It is difficult to duplicate the sound with just the guitar and amp. My videos are really intended for accomplished guitarists who want to polish up their Beatles repertoire and can benefit from "seeing" how a song is played - I am not a guitar teacher and do not provide tabs. I welcome specific questions. If the various chords that I am playing are not familiar to you then I would suggest that you visit some of the many free guitar chord sites. I had to learn these songs by listening to vinyl records and watching live performances on tv. The use of any copyrighted material is used under the guidelines of "Fair Use" in Title 17 § 107 of the United States Code. Such material remains the copyright of the original holder and is used here for the purposes of education, comparison, and criticism only.
