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John Lennon’s Under-Appreciated Gift
One of our first-ever posts, way back in 2016, focused on John Lennon’s unique guitar playing.
We’ve been adapting our “Greatest Hits” into YouTube videos, so here’s our appreciation of John’s guitar skills.
Please have a look and let us know what you think. Thanks!
-Al Cattabiani
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John and George and Paul played guitar really good. But I think it was John who strummed the strings the best. He would accent a chord in the middle of his rake strums mostly in the middle few Beatles albums. I figured a few out pretty good. It is quite amazing. So was Paul’s Michelle and George likely played acoustic on A day in a life. Sometimes there was a lot of rhythm changes happening. On the intro to his first movie title John eases up on a few chord notes and a few notes ring out. All the unbelievable things those guys did I don’t think anyone will figure them out. So copyrights are really a waste of time. They usually tend to dull up the great work done. While no one but them or the best virtuoso experts can really do it. There’s too many ideas to complete. Only they know what they played and how to make it sound good. They could have unbelievably been more popular perhaps if they played there best strums and chord progressions on every song.
Although I won’t dispute your opinion on John’s underrated guitar abilities…I already agree in ways…but your short video really doesn’t prove much…just gives an opinion… if you really want to illustrate your point, maybe give us some actual examples? 30 second bits, or whatever you you’re allowed to use without royalties, maybe?
We’d love to play more, but YouTube is very strict about it.