229: Something Deconstructed

 

A new phase SATB episode: audio with full video accompaniment!

My guests are returning musician Jack Petruzzelli (Fab Faux, Joan Osborne, Patti Smith), joined by Cameron Greider (Freedy Johnston, Sean Lennon, Rufus Wainwright), who in the past year developed a series of online Beatles classes. For the latest, The Beatles and You, they are joined by musicologist Walter Everett (The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men to Rubber Soul and The Beatles As Musicians: Revolver to Anthology).

RPM School is presenting a holistic approach to getting inside Beatles music, combining lecture and discussion, music instruction and recording and performance sessions, geared to your individual level. Their approach is unique and individualized, as shown with the demonstration here on George’s “Something.” Learn the influences that informed its construction (and where else they were used), as well as the technique utilized to capture the song as we know it.

As this is an interactive presentation, you can see ALL of the conversation here.

 
Check out Walter’s lecture here.  (password: SATB )
 
His slides here.
 
Sign up for The Beatles And You here.
 
RPM School site
 
Also discussed: their take on Peter Jackson’s Get Back

1 thought on “229: Something Deconstructed”

  1. What a gift from RPM School and SATB! Thanks for this inspired true teaching. Learning about the bone structure & nervous system of even a single Beatle song like this can only empower students to love the world of music more and help them create better songs of their own.

    Awesome comment about how understanding their music better only deepens our awe of the mystery. Under all the knowledge there’s that mysterious singularity — how inspiration happens instantly outside time, even in dreams. The best artists can do is lay the groundwork and hope for it to grace them. Its true for any artist. But for these 4, I think we’re talking the level of a miracle. Tons of song writers know more than the Beatles musically but aren’t able to touch the whole planet and change history. (Almost uncanny like the Beatles were the “spirit of history” trying to heal or rebalance itself after World War Two — with Liverpool-Hamburg, the two most bombed out cities, giving birth to them and ‘all you need is love’ vs all out total war.)

  2. What a gift from RPM School and SATB! Thanks for this inspired true teaching. Learning about the bone structure & nervous system of even a single Beatle song like this can only empower students to love the world of music more and help them create better songs of their own.

    Awesome comment about how understanding their music better only deepens our awe of the mystery. Under all the knowledge there’s that mysterious singularity — how inspiration happens instantly outside time, even in dreams. The best artists can do is lay the groundwork and hope for it to grace them. Its true for any artist. But for these 4, I think we’re talking the level of a miracle. Tons of song writers know more than the Beatles musically but aren’t able to touch the whole planet and change history. (Almost uncanny like the Beatles were the “spirit of history” trying to heal or rebalance itself after World War Two — with Liverpool-Hamburg, the two most bombed out cities, giving birth to them and ‘all you need is love’ vs all out total war.)

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