People dont realise how good a guitarist Paul was. I think I like his licks best here. Heres the play-by-play, courtesy of Jeff Allen sharing Jonathan Goulds words: Jeff Allen This video need annotations!!!! People need to know when Paul is playing, then George, then John, etc... From the book Cant Buy Me Love by Jonathan Gould: Paul opens with a characteristically fluid and melodically balanced line that sounds a high A before snaking an octave down the scale; George responds by soaring to an even higher D and sustaining it for half a bar before descending in syncopated pairs of 16th notes; John then picks upon the pattern of Georges 16ths with a series of choppy thirds that hammer relentlessly on the second and flattened seventh degrees of the scale. The second time through, Paul answers Johns blusey flattened 7ths with bluesy minor thirds and then proceeds to echo Georges earlier line, spiraling up to that same high D; George responds with some minor thirds of his own, while mimicking the choppy rhythm of Johns part; John then drops two octaves to unleash a growling single-note line. On this final two-bar solo, Paul plays almost nothing but minor thirds and flattened sevenths in a herky-jerky rhythm that ends with a sudden plunge to a low A; George then reaches for the stars with a steeply ascending line that is pitched an octave above any notes heard so far; and John finishes with a string of insistent and heavily distorted 4ths, phrased in triplets, that drag behind the beat and grate against the background harmony
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:24:01 +0000
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