Hi peterbell1,
Hi Xosé (complete with accent )...
Great!!
...I see what you are saying about George only hitting the high "E" string by mistake while he is plucking the "B" string. It could be that, yes...
Well. I was referring to Harrison plucking (=not hitting) the G string instead the D string at that particular point:
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----------5--------------------------5-5^3--------------5-------------6-------------------------------------------
-------------7--10------------------------------------------7--10--------7-------
2^0-----------2-----------------
---5-7-8--------------------5-7-8--------------5-7-8----------------------8-7---------------0--------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-3--------3-0---------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-1^3-
Instead of what we can listen at the recording:
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----------5--------------------------5-5^3--------------5-------------6-------------------------------------------
-------------7--10------------------------------------------7--10--------7-----------------------2-----------------
---5-7-8--------------------5-7-8--------------5-7-8----------------------8-7-
7^5---------0--------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-3--------3-0---------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-1^3-
...I just watched the clip again and it actually looks like he does play the "A" note in the slur part on the 4th string but the next string that moves after that is the third (G) string. That doesn't make much sense when you try to play it though!
Perhaps he does play the slur on the 4th string, 7th and 5th frets, but is hitting the G string by accident, as he does with the high E string at the start of that section?...
The E string "moves" when he plays the B string, because the downstroke with the pick "stops" at the E string. The same applies with the other strings: if he plucks the G string, then the B string "moves", because the pick "stops" at the B string. If he pluks the D string, the G string "moves" because the pick "stops" at the G string. It's like the apoyando technique of the classical and flamenco guitar players, but played downstroke (=i.e.: reverse way...) and with a pick instead of the fingers (=index and middle...)
Said that: at the "wrong" point, the string that "moves" is the B string. Why?? Obviously because he has plucked the G string just before that "movement". That is why I'm saying that Harrison did this wrong mimmic for the shot (=we can clearly hear the slur between the VII fret and V fret on the D string, because we hear the sound of a wound string. If he had played the "correct" D string at this particular point -slur VII ^ V fret-, then we should see the G string "moving", as the pick would have stopped there..)
...The only way I can play that slur part to sound like the record is to do it on the 4th string - it just doesn't get the same sound when you do it on the 3rd string and finish it with an open string...
Correct!!
You got what I mean...
...And Robbie McIntosh agrees (his solo is really lovely on this version) ....
And I love Her - Paul McCartney Unplugged
Very good!!
Thank you!!
Xosé