beatles midterm

This song starts out a cappella and has the lyric "you don't know what your missing the world is at your command"

"Nowhere man" - used this song in the yellow submarine movie

The single that features two beatles innovations: backtracking and varispeeding

"Rain" from revolver sessions

This song returns as a reprise at the end of the album sgt pepper

"Sgt peppers lonely heart's band club"

Brian Epstein and George Martin

2 most influential people in the early stages of the beatles

"While my guitar gently weeps" is the fist song completely dont on this new machine

3M 8 track tape recorder - 3m got into the tape recording business because they made scotch tape

The original title of the movie help

8 arms to hold you

The opening of "eight days a week" features this pop music "first"

A fade up

An early take of this song shows him playing the joker and causing a real "train wreck"

And your bird can sing

This george insisted that this session drummer replace ringo at their first studio session

Andy white

For this song they had to mix the four channels of strings down to one mono track

Eleanor rigs by

This instrument starts john lennon's lucy in the sky with diamonds and its not a synthesizer

Electric organ (Lowrey DSO)

John lennon's "you've got to hide your love away" owes allegiance to this american songwriter

Bob dylan

Even though he owned a record store and became their manager, he steered clear of giving them musical advise

Brian epstein

The signal processing that adds dirt and grit to a guitar sound

Distortion

The B side of the beatles 45 RPM single "get back"

Don't let me down

This simple procedure helped the beatles evaluate their arrangements of new songs

Record their rehearsals and listen after to decide if they liked it or not

The facility where the beatles started to film their rehearsals in january 1969

Twickenham film studios

The recording system they employed for this first album

Twin track recorder - can't overdub with the twin track

The urgency to compose new, more serious songs, led the beatles to adopt this new work regimen

Working late, often after midnight - they were allowed to do this because of how successful they were

Not a gimmick - this song features ringo's longest ever drum solo

The end from abbey roads side b

For this singing debut on a beatles album, they had to record drums and vocals together, altering the sound

"boys"

Ringo's unique drum style on the song "ticket to ride"

A pattern of accents mimicking the rhythm of the opening guitar

Ken townsend came up with this process to save mr lennon time and effort

ADT (artificial double tracking) they did this by sending the single into a second machine them from the playback into a another machine

new technology used on rubber soul and revolver for recording

ADT- artificial double tracking. You could create another vocal through that second tape machine - this made john lennon happy because he wouldn't have to sing an overdub Tape looping, playing tapes backwards, splicing things together, building songs, lots of tape loops specifically in tomorrow never knows On the song rain, something new they did was play the end backwards - john lennon took the song home and played it backwards by accident and he loved it

The american label in LA representing EMI

Capitol records

What innovations in the studio helped the beatles make unique cutting edge records

Close miked the sitar and tablas Artificial double tracking (flanging and phrasing) Backtracking Moog synthesizer Jess Emerick stuffing a sweater into ringo's drums on tomorrow never knows Varispeeding and backtracking - used on the song rain Half speed Tape loops Extreme close miking on eleanor rigby Leslie speakers and radio voice Use of sound effects - used in yellow submarine

The changes that emerick instituted for recording his drums

Close mugged the drums Mick under the snear Put a sweater in the drum

In "blue jay way" george harrison is waiting for this friend

Derek taylor, who later worked at apple as his personal assistant

A forceful and dramatic overdub at the end of the last song

Four pianos playing an E major chord

This classical instrument has a solo in the instrumental section of "for no one"

French horn

These two nationalistic pieces frame the song "all your need is love"

French national anthem la marseillaise and green sleeves

A prelude to guitar distortion, engineers came up with a device for the bass on harrison's "think for yourself"

Fuzz box - the fuzz box works by clipping all the peaks to give them the grainy sound/ alter the sound

He quit during the white album sessions

Geoff emerick

He says let's whittle them down to 14 and 16 titles and concentrate on those

George martin - beatles did not actually whittle them down

This liverpool group made a hit out of the song "how do you do it" which the beatles rejected

Gerry and the pacemakers (brian epstein was also the manager of this group)

Ringo simulated maxwells crimes with this "on maxwell's silver hammer"

Hammer and anvil

How did epstein benefit from getting turned down from decca records

He got to keep the demo tape and that's how he actually got a record deal later

What beatles songs reflect their british culture and heritage

Her majesty Taxman Strawberry fields forever - about a park in liverpool Penny lane - a street in liverpool Eleanor rigby - real family buried in liverpool cemetery A day in the life When I'm sixty four - talks about retire and moving to the isle of white - island where lots of brits retire Back in ussr Mean mr mustard She's leaving home

Mccartney's martha my dear is falsely rumored to be about this creature

His sheep dog

The song in mag mystical ride that requires 4 reduction mixes, with the last one recorded to an open track on an earlier tape

I am the walrus

John lennon's confessional song from the beatles for sale album

I'm a loser

Maxwells first victim

Joan

The failed piece of studio gear that magic alex built for the new apple studio

Mixing console

The reason why the ast tape fo the please please me session had to be a one take wonder

John lennon was sick, so he had a ragged voice on "twist and shout" as he was losing his voice

when you get other noise coming into your microphone

Leakage

A revolving device for making vocals and guitars sound "trippy"

Leslie rotating speaker

Wrote and released the original version of kansas city

Little richard

The first single released by the beatles (not when they are the beat brothers but when they were the beatles)

Love me do - did not do super well on the charts, reached 17 on the charts, never got over to the united states until a year later

The beatles used this device to record at home

Magnetic tape recorder

Mccartney's initial inspiration for "lady madonna"

Musical inspiration was a jazz tune and Lyrical inspiration was him reading through national geographic snd he was reading about mountain madonna and there was a picture of a woman with a baby

Some nicknames john lennon gave to their balance engineers

Norman smith - called him normal Glyn johns - glynis

The rhythm tracks of "all you need is love" were recorded in this studio

Olympic studios

Beatles last performance

On the rooftop of apple studios

One of their older songs about british transportation that ends up on side B of let it be

One after 909

Back in the ussr features a new drummer

Paul mccartney

Surprisingly this beatle rang up george martin and said they wanted to make a new album

Paul mccartney

He had the idea to create a wacky psychedelic film

Paul mccartney - though of the idea while on a plane in the us

Between vocal phrases on drive my car, this instrument fills the role of a lead guitar

Paul mccartney's bass

The american producer hired by allen klein, to rescue the let it be album

Phil spector

It's not a harpsichord, so what is it?

Piano recorded at half speed, then sped up again on "in my life"

The special treatment given the guitar solo on "I'm only sleeping"

Played it backwards

George Martin

Producer of the Beatles at emi - took a leap of faith on the beatles and signed them and worked with them and at the beginning everyone thought they were nothing special but he could see their promise

The term for consolidating several tracks to one on a new tape to enable more overdubs

Reduction mix

The procedure of mixing and copying to a new tape machine to create more available tracks

Reduction mix (later dubbed "Ping ponging") - purpose is to create more tracks

In the quote "I am the foundation, and then I put a bit of glow here and there" he's talking about

Ringo's drumming

The two georges agreed that this album was perhaps their favorite

Rubber soul - george martin liked the acoustic nature of the album and george harrison felt it wasn't too technical which he also liked

On harrison's you you blue" john lennon plays his rooftop instrument on his lap

Slide (bottleneck) guitar

the you in paul mccartney's song you never give me your money

The lawyers and administrators at apple

This new way of monitoring helped them improve their overdubs

The use of headphones (these replaced the great white elephants)

In a manner of speaking, this set them apart from their london counterparts

Their mersey accent - called mersey accent instead of liverpool because there was a river running through liverpool called the mersey river

Ringo had never played this classical percussion instrument when he did the overdub for "every little thing"

Timpani

The music ensemble that mr martin used for the arrangement of yesterday -

a string quartet

The only song on please please me that has a double track vocal

a taste of honey

A device that george harrison employed to ease in the guitar chords on his songs I Need You

a volume peddle, later called a war wah

The record label started by the beatles

apple core records

This family of jazz instruments is prominent on "got to get you into my life"

brass

what is varispeeding

changing the speed of the tape machine - through increasing or decreasing the electricity to make the motor slow down or speed up, changing the speed and pitch of audio

Mccartney's blackbird was subtle commentary on this american social crisis in the 60s

civil rights movement

In multitrack recording george Martin strongly believed that these two components needed to be separated

corals and instrumentals

Both these and original songs existed no their first few albums

covers

Brian epstein was feeling down when this major record label turned him down for a record label with the beatles

decca records

A recording trick used to enhance and fortify the vocal

double tracking

Perhaps the first instance of beats, what two elements make up the intro to tomorrow never knows

drums on a loop and tamboura

This addition by Paul on "come together" made mr. Lennon quite happy

electric organ

For this reason, lennon missed some of the early sessions of abbey road

he was recommended bring from a car accident

Where is the place that lennon sings about in there's a place

in his mind

The method used to assemble the medley of short songs on side B

magnetic tape splicing

The fool on the hill utilized these two harmonic modes

major and minor

Brian Epstein

manager, kept them in line, made them dress more formal, wanted them to clean up their live act - spent a lot of time goofing around and Epstein wanted them to cut it back - he set the guidelines for them. His role as a manager didn't end once he got signed to EMI, it continued because he had to oversee all their tours. He was responsible for their media and press. Without brian epstein they wouldn't have been able to launch and sustain their careers successfully. Managed many other brands from the Liverpool area. Came from a wealthy family in which he inherited the largest record business in liverpool, heard of the beatles through people requesting their album, my bonnie by tony sheridan, when he met the beatles he fell in love with them

The revolutionary new electronic toy is used throughout the abbey road record

moog synthesizer

John lennon's pet name for balance engineer normal smith

normal

We know he wasn't just sleeping, but in this song, john lennon sings "i crawled up to sleep in the bath"

norwegian wood

the tape machine that was the workhorse for their recording projects from 1965-68

studer j 47 4 track

Most of the sessions for this album take place in this smaller studio

studio 3

The way to make a piano sound like a harpsichord

recorded it at half speed

He felt pretty good when this "band of a bunch of punks" asked him to replace pete best

ringo star

Who is mr starkey

ringo star

These instruments are playing the counter melody to "ob-la-di, ob-la-da"

saxaphone

"Love is the one thing that money can't buy" - poignant lyrics to this song about the generation gap

she's leaving home

The song filmed and recorded by granada tv at the cavern club before they were famous

some other guy

new instruments used on rubber soul and revolver

string quartet (eleanor rigsby case double string quartet), clavichord, french horn (for no one), bongos, maracas, and foreign, specifically indian, instruments such as the sitar and tamboura, on the song got to get you into my life, lots of brass instruments

An important indian instrument overdubbed on george harrison's song "within you without you"

tabla

George Harrison finally got one of his songs to open an album. Which one?

taxman on the record revolver

how was a day in the life initially going to end before deciding to end it with 4 e major chords?

the beatles were going to hum

The main venue where the beatles performed in liverpool

the cavern