Blasphemy! Revising or "Correcting" Beatles songs in my mind... | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

I may try to record some examples of what I’m talking about, because I think it would be too subtle and complicated to describe in typed out words (and I can’t write music well enough to communicate it that way, either).

For now, just one example I will allude to:  “I Need You “.  When I was listening to this song many times this past spring, I began to develop ways of singing along to it that added to it.  Also, at other times when the song wasn’t playing but just remembering it in my mind, I would continue to flesh out these “additions”.

I’ll take a stab at describing a couple of things I do with that song, I’ll add my vocal additions in bold (with caps denoting accented sounds): 

“You don’t realize how much I need you–buh-buh-buh buh BUH buh…”

These “buh-buhs” at other times in similar spots can be changed to:

“dit-dit-dit-dit”

After these are done a few times at the appropriate places, when I do them the last time I increase the number and placement of them so that the rhythm of them starts to sound like I am trying to change the time from 4/4 to something else (5/4 or 7/4) in tension with the ongoing 4/4.

In addition to these vocalisms, I also want to hear some kind of percussive addition — either snare drums or fast rhythm guitar doing a fast strumming patter of 8th beats, at about the same place as my “buh-buhs” above — either replacing them once or twice, or sounding at the same time.