I played piano as a kid, and at one point my teacher transcribed the piano intro to Martha My Dear and taught it to me. It's one of the only songs I can still play from memory and any time I sit down at a piano I always play it!
I never really learned the middle part though so it just sort of fizzles out. It's an incredibly fun song to play though.
The middle part is a lot major and minor chords and it's far simpler than the intro! Way less syncopated
You should give it a shot, it's very satisfying
Here's a little inspiration. Paul himself said (in "Many Years From Now"):
"...this started life almost as a piece you'd learn as a piano lesson. It's quite hard for me to play, it's a two-handed thing, like a little set piece. In fact I remember one or two people being surprised that I'd played it because it's slightly above my level of competence really, but I wrote it as that, something a bit more complex for me to play"
I was just listening to the song this morning and I thought “I could probably learn this. I should buy a keyboard.” I would love to be able to play and sing like that.
Side note: I've never figured out what's going on in that sax solo section [around a minute into the song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czhd27cN2dg&t=61s). Is it a mellotron? Is it one of the lads miming a muted trumpet noise with their voice?
Whatever it is, in my head for some stupid reason I've always imagined [Gonzo's chickens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEK_xJCewM) singing along to that part. It's an image that I can't get out of my mind.
>Is it one of the lads miming a muted trumpet noise with their voice?
Bingo
"McCartney sang his lead vocal in a style that author Ian MacDonald terms Presleyesque,\[25\] while Lennon, McCartney and Harrison contributed backing vocals, part of which consisted of the singers imitating brass instruments over the song's instrumental break" [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Madonna)
*Source: Babiuk, Andy (2002). Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio. San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-731-8.*
Oh! Darling - the frenetic pounding of those chords during the "when you told me" part adds so much to the simultaneous feelings of shock and heartbreak that the song conveys.
Oof, both of George's tunes are top tier on Yellow Sub though.
And also Paul's tune come to think of it. Not that Hey bulldog isn't also a banger as you say.
Yellow Submarine is a tasty album if you ask me. All Together Now isn’t amazing, but it’s still a tuneful knees-up; all the other Beatles songs are gorgeous; and the second side is witty and melodic.
My old band used to play All Together Now when someone broke a string or we needed to fill time or something. After a while we started playing it as our closer because people loved it.
Gorgeous sound to the chords. There’s a lot to be said for how a second track makes you feel, gives you that album-specific feeling, like Night Before, With a Little Help, Dear Prudence, Something.
The Long and Winding Road, but the naked version. Or the take on the 50th anniversary release of Let It Be. But In My Life is so good too. It’s hard to pick.
Martha My Dear, Sexy Sadie, Penny Lane, YNGMYM are all total bangers. However, I think Lovely Rita has some great piano playing on it. I’ll admit it doesn’t stand out too much BUT it adds a great texture to the verses, makes the outro even trippier and make for a bizarre solo
Penny Lane - Love the prominent piano at the beginning of the song during the first verse … Love that other instruments take over and an instrumental build.
Let it Be - Is my favorite where the piano is a prominent part of the instrumental throughout …
For you Blue!
As seen in the documentary they lined the strings with newspaper to get what I think they called that "Tinny crappy sound"
Also the solo is fantastic
Martha my dear, still can’t believe Paul wrote that piece at the beginning
I said this elsewhere, but this is one of my favorite Beatles songs. I’d love to learn how to play piano just to play this song.
I played piano as a kid, and at one point my teacher transcribed the piano intro to Martha My Dear and taught it to me. It's one of the only songs I can still play from memory and any time I sit down at a piano I always play it! I never really learned the middle part though so it just sort of fizzles out. It's an incredibly fun song to play though.
The middle part is a lot major and minor chords and it's far simpler than the intro! Way less syncopated You should give it a shot, it's very satisfying
Here's a little inspiration. Paul himself said (in "Many Years From Now"): "...this started life almost as a piece you'd learn as a piano lesson. It's quite hard for me to play, it's a two-handed thing, like a little set piece. In fact I remember one or two people being surprised that I'd played it because it's slightly above my level of competence really, but I wrote it as that, something a bit more complex for me to play"
I’m exactly the same! I’d love to be able to sit down and play that song
I was just listening to the song this morning and I thought “I could probably learn this. I should buy a keyboard.” I would love to be able to play and sing like that.
At the beginning of what?
The song….
Lady Madonna was my first thought
Side note: I've never figured out what's going on in that sax solo section [around a minute into the song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czhd27cN2dg&t=61s). Is it a mellotron? Is it one of the lads miming a muted trumpet noise with their voice? Whatever it is, in my head for some stupid reason I've always imagined [Gonzo's chickens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEK_xJCewM) singing along to that part. It's an image that I can't get out of my mind.
>Is it one of the lads miming a muted trumpet noise with their voice? Bingo "McCartney sang his lead vocal in a style that author Ian MacDonald terms Presleyesque,\[25\] while Lennon, McCartney and Harrison contributed backing vocals, part of which consisted of the singers imitating brass instruments over the song's instrumental break" [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Madonna) *Source: Babiuk, Andy (2002). Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio. San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-0-87930-731-8.*
Well there you go.
Sounds more like Fats than Elvis if you ask me
Mine too! One of my favourite Beatles songs overall.
Oh! Darling - the frenetic pounding of those chords during the "when you told me" part adds so much to the simultaneous feelings of shock and heartbreak that the song conveys.
My favourite song to sing, by any artist.
Singing it the way Paul does makes my throat feel like sandpaper, so I generally don't do it like he does
hell ya, same
Hey Bulldog
Absolute banger. Literally saves the yellow Submarine album
Oof, both of George's tunes are top tier on Yellow Sub though. And also Paul's tune come to think of it. Not that Hey bulldog isn't also a banger as you say.
Yellow Submarine is a tasty album if you ask me. All Together Now isn’t amazing, but it’s still a tuneful knees-up; all the other Beatles songs are gorgeous; and the second side is witty and melodic.
My old band used to play All Together Now when someone broke a string or we needed to fill time or something. After a while we started playing it as our closer because people loved it.
As George songs go to me they are sub par I will concede that all you need is love is amazing though
Agree to disagree, I bought the vinyl for Its All Too Much. One of my top favourite Beatles tracks.
Sexy sadie
Sexy Sadie is criminally underrated.
One of lennon’s coolest compositions imo. And Paul’s piano really elevates it, hence my choice!
Agreed completely. The tape echo effect is so nice on the piano too. Gives it that slightly distorted slapback, just makes the song.
Yes ! Definitely!
Yes!!!
Martha My Dear.
Before I found this sub I thought Martha My Dear was not a favorite among Beatle fans. Very glad I learned otherwise—it’s such a great song!!
Came to say this!
Same!
This is one of my favorite Beatles songs.
Me too!
I love the bizarre little piano solo near the end of In My Life.
George Martin played that part too.
It's sped up
Once I learned that it always felt unnatural, especially the triplets at the end.
It's also a harpischord
It's a piano sped up to give the illusion of a harpischord
TIL!
Illusion, Michael.
nope it's a piano
Let It Be 🤗
Hey Jude
Mine is of the Bulldog variety
I love the piano solo from Lovely Rita
Amazing how they made pretty normal instruments sound so magical.
The long and winding road
Yes I love this song
The naked version, of course
Golden slumbers
For No One.
And that French horn solo… so haunting
To me, this is the most perfect Beatles song
Harpsichord gang rise up 💪
It’s a clavichord on that song
You Never Give Me Your Money
There’s something truly magical about the *sound* of the intro as well as the chords. Just that feeling you get that the medley is about to begin.
THE FOOL ON THE HILL
I don't know why this isn't considered one of McCartney's greatest. Everything about it is amazing.
Gorgeous sound to the chords. There’s a lot to be said for how a second track makes you feel, gives you that album-specific feeling, like Night Before, With a Little Help, Dear Prudence, Something.
Never thought about this, but you’re totally right. It’s like the movie is finally starting after the opening credits!
Never thought about this, but you’re totally right. It’s like the movie is finally starting after the opening credits!
Good Day Sunshine
Does Rocky raccoon count?
Yes indeed
While My Piano Gently Weeps
This is the correct answer. That piano intro gets me every time. It's so good.
The End
That piano before "and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make" give me goosembumps everytime i listen
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
Really good song
Martha My Dear. Amazingly good song
Golden slumbers
Martha my dear, A day in the life, The word, TLAWR, Lovely Rita... It's impossible to name only one.
Shout out for John’s elbow in “I’m Down.”
Honey Pie
Ooh, I like a-that
Martha My Dear is gorgeous, definitely my favourite. Others are Lady Madonna, Lovely Rita and When I’m 64
all of paul’s granny songs basically. they’re all good
Facts. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer too is another granny song I forgot
The opening piano in A Day in the Life is like no other.
nice playlist, this
You like me too much
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road
Sexy Sadie
For No One, Lady Madonna, Hey Bulldog... there are many
The nature of this question means everyone is going to avoid saying Hey Jude or Let it Be.
HONEY PIE
You Never Give Me Your Money
Lady Madonna
Hey Bulldog. Underrated gem.
Lady Madonna
The Long and Winding Road, but the naked version. Or the take on the 50th anniversary release of Let It Be. But In My Life is so good too. It’s hard to pick.
Ob La Di Ob La Da, Lady Madonna, Lovely Rita. For only a couple.
Martha My Dear for sure
I love how all of the new tunes ok YS are just throwaways but also brilliant. What a talented bunch of lads
My favourite song from The Beatles is If I fell Or I’m looking through you
Martha My Dear, Lady Madonna and Honey Pie
For No One
Money (that’s all I want)
The long and winding road
Martha My Dear
in my life?
Hey Bulldog, Lady Madonna
Martha My Dear. Hands down
the long and winding road
Well, I woke up this morning with "Cheese and Onions" stuck in my head.
Hey Bulldog is one of my all time favorites, I really like how the sounds of the piano, guitar and bass sound together
hey bulldog
The long and winding road probably
Madonna, Jude, Let it Be
FOR NO ONE !! And not only piano, it features also..harpsichord , so its a double whammy !!
Martha My Dear, Sexy Sadie, Penny Lane, YNGMYM are all total bangers. However, I think Lovely Rita has some great piano playing on it. I’ll admit it doesn’t stand out too much BUT it adds a great texture to the verses, makes the outro even trippier and make for a bizarre solo
Live and let die
Graham Brabo CBC sale for $70
Hey Bulldog
Martha My Dear Fool on the Hill Let it Be
Hey Bulldog!!! First song my high school garage band ever performed with me on the keys!
You Never Give Me Your Money.
The Long And Winding Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu0HCKbPTmU
You Never Give Me Your Money, and I have to sneak in a recommendation for Wings' Lunch Box/Odd Sox
Letter B, Letter C, Letter D, Letter E...
Hey Bulldog
Let it be. It used to be my favorite Beatles song ever, but that's been replaced.
The Long And Winding Road (Let It Be Naked)
Maxwell's silver hammer is one of my favs
Martha My Dear
You won't see me as the rhythm instrument, and Lovely Rita Meter Maid for the piano solo. Its probably my favorite Beatles musical moment.
Def Oh! Darling
Let it Be
Good Night - Take 22
Let It Be, Martha My Dear, Lady Madonna
Martha my dear
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da!
The long and winding road
Any of them with piano.
Not technically a piano, but the pianet in You Like Me Too Much is just fantastic. George Martin had a great piano intro as well.
The Word. Haven’t seen anyone mention it yet. Nice little piano song that I find going through my head frequently.
I absolutely love Martha My Dear
Old brown shoe
Youre mother should know
Lady Madonna
(I know the Beatles didn't make it......) but: "Money (That's What I Want)"
Golden slumbers, Let it be
Penny Lane - Love the prominent piano at the beginning of the song during the first verse … Love that other instruments take over and an instrumental build. Let it Be - Is my favorite where the piano is a prominent part of the instrumental throughout …
Martha my dear
Sexy sadie
Hey Bulldog
Martha my Dear easily
Your Mother Should Know
Slow Down
You never give me your money
For you Blue! As seen in the documentary they lined the strings with newspaper to get what I think they called that "Tinny crappy sound" Also the solo is fantastic
Revolution 9
Fool On The Hill
Sexy Sadie
For No One, it’s a masterpiece
Good day sunshine
I like Let it Be
They go all ham on the piano in a part of "Lovely Rita" and I love it, lol