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7 November 2022
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I just discovered that you can clip YouTube segments, so I’ll try to use them to illustrate what I mean:
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxn…..3Xaw4gqCEG
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-…..uslIaweaoo
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxx…..pUl9XFJSa6
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx5…..B6FsPHXwLi
These are all I can think of at the moment. Seems unique to Paul’s songwriting.
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Nice work spotting that!
“Hello Goodbye ” is another one, with George(?) playing that 8-note ascending major scale during the refrains.
(And hmm, the coda of “Across The Universe ” also features a repeated 8-note octave ascent, but that one’s not a Paul song, of course…)
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12.37am
7 November 2022
Offline Yes @vonbontee — Hello Goodbye , I’d forgotten that, and probably was Paul’s input. When you clicked on my links, did they work in the sense that they led you to little snippets of a few seconds on a loop? A friend told me another link I created for him the same way did not work for him but only played the entire song.
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Offline They did work correctly, @Sea Belt. It really helped to hear just the bit you want us to hear. Good job. I’m going to have to learn that trick.
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7 November 2022
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They did work correctly, @Sea Belt. It really helped to hear just the bit you want us to hear. Good job. I’m going to have to learn that trick.
That’s great news, thanks! I’m still puzzled why the same links didn’t work for my friend via email — actually doubly puzzling because they worked for another email friend! Oh well, at least they worked here!
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4 September 2019
Offline Sea Belt said
These are all I can think of at the moment. Seems unique to Paul’s songwriting.
Ascending riffs are a common technique in all kinds of music. Here’s one of my favorites, from Led Zeppelin’s Over the Hills and Far Away. I always thought it sounded very clever:
https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxj…..lBHA7h4JMG
By the way, thanks for pointing out that clip function, that’s pretty cool.
For another Beatle Paul example, there’s the beginning riff of Helter Skelter .
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Offline @forn — that Led Zeppelin one is pretty good.
I’m not sure the Helter Skelter intro counts, since the guitar is actually descending, not ascending, while Paul’s singing is ascending. That incidentally illustrates another thing Paul has done which he has mentioned in interviews — he likes to have an instrument go one direction while his singing goes the opposite. I think the example he gave was the boogie woogie piano in You Never Give Me Your Money doing this in contrast to his vocal melody.
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4 September 2019
Offline @forn — that Led Zeppelin one is pretty good.
I’m not sure the Helter Skelter intro counts, since the guitar is actually descending, not ascending, while Paul’s singing is ascending.Sea Belt said
Oops, got that backwards. How embarrassing. But at least it allowed you to bring up Paul’s use of contrary motion. The Helter Skelter riff also uses a drone note, for that matter.
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