Just want to see what you guys and gals think is the hardest and most compicated song of the Beatles.

If you were in a cover band? "Strawberry Fields" would be real hard. Everything is dubbed and double tracked on that one I believe, and even with todays keyboard technology it would be rough.

If were talking about just a certain instrument, i'd pick "A Day In The Life" being a drummer.

I'll have to think about this one for awhile.

Revolution #9 would be pretty hard to recreate in concert.

Tomorrow Never Knows

Ooh....that could be even harder......"What A Shame Mary Jane" would be hard as well, because the audience would boo you off stage within a minute. 

All I know is at a Beatlefest they had the Beatle soundalike contest (rigged, of course) and at the very end they broke out the ringers from LA...a man and a woman, a set of keyboards and I think she may have played guitar.

That was IT.

The two of them beautifully recreated I Am A Walrus, down to the entire fadeout with everything where it should be.

I plotzed.

A Day in the Life would be very hard to do in concert.

Quoted from misterchaz, posted July 10, 2004, 12:39am at here

The two of them beautifully recreated I Am A Walrus, down to the entire fadeout with everything where it should be.

I plotzed.

Not very hard....just record the entire song on your keyboard. Then press play.

Quoted from Rowdy, posted July 10, 2004, 1:04am at here

Not very hard....just record the entire song on your keyboard. Then press play.

No, no!

He did have a synth, and obviously the parts had to be recorded to a degree for just him and her to replicate, but it was his playing that was recorded, not the CD.

And all the voices and noises and such were made live by them (mainly him).

It was really something one had to see.

Where did this Beatlefest occur? I live a ways away from everything, but I'm wondering if there's some sort of tour that goes around.....like a convention, and if so, does it hit San Francisco?

Quoted from Rowdy, posted July 9, 2004, 5:32pm at here

Revolution #9 would be pretty hard to recreate in concert.

haha, good one.

a day in the life would be hard to pull of in a concert. Hello goodbye would be tough one  too.

Not getting what would make "Hello Goodbye" hard.......Paul does it in his concerts even...

Quoted from Rowdy, posted July 10, 2004, 1:49am at here

Where did this Beatlefest occur? I live a ways away from everything, but I'm wondering if there's some sort of tour that goes around.....like a convention, and if so, does it hit San Francisco?

It was about 4, 5 years ago, the usual Mark Lapidos thingie.  Except it had never been in Northern California in 20 years (it's always in LA).

It was in Burlingame by the airport...the Hyatt I think.

I wish there were more conventions and nearby.........seems like Trek ones are in Sacramento every other month......I like Trek though.....maybe I should go......

you're in my little book

Quoted from tkitna, posted July 9, 2004, 5:08pm at here

If you were in a cover band? "Strawberry Fields" would be real hard. Everything is dubbed and double tracked on that one I believe, and even with todays keyboard technology it would be rough.

If were talking about just a certain instrument, i'd pick "A Day In The Life" being a drummer.

I'll have to think about this one for awhile.

Not too mention the pitch change when the strings come in at 1 minute.  (Sorry to be anal)

What about the hardest song concerning with the guitar or base?

I imagine that the solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" would be a hard one......and the backwards one in "I'm Only Sleeping" could be a bit weird.....not sure what the hardest base parts are...

Try singing and playing macca's bass line in the third verse of taxman. ('If you get too close I'll.....")etc.

Got there in the end. Not the easiest.

Quoted from Rowdy, posted July 11, 2004, 8:57pm at here

I imagine that the solo in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" would be a hard one......and the backwards one in "I'm Only Sleeping" could be a bit weird.....not sure what the hardest base parts are...

what album is im only sleeping found. And yeah i agree while my guitar gently weeps is a cool/hard guitar song.

Another one would be Norwegian wood and revolution.  Norwegian wood would be a hard guitar song because lots of chords change really fast.  And revolution is just plain hard.

and Helter Skelter is has fast electic guitar.  that song would probabaly be pretty hard to play.

Quoted from number14, posted July 12, 2004, 2:39am at here

what album is im only sleeping found.

Revolver.

How about The Abbey Rd. Medley? Especially when the "And In the end" section is a semi-tone down from the rest of the track (Spliced on Edit). Thus giving guitarists a very hard time learning those final historic licks!

Love, Love, Love for all the string arrangements and lack of guitar. That's tough.
You'd need to be a bloody barber shop septet at least to recreate "Because" off Abbey Rd.

I could bore on and on about different songs with effects. Depends on how faithful you were learning the songs.

In terms of just plain buskers guitar, you'll be surprised at how hard some of the earlier ones really are! Thanks to George Martins diminished sixths and sevenths they all can be a handful to the learning guitarist.

Try playing Revolution #9 then!!!!

they don't get enough credit for some of there early stuff....they made it sound easy, but some of even the earliest tunes were very elaborate pieces......they just made it look so easy......

Penny Lane...I just really struggle with that one.

Quoted from Strawberryfields67, posted August 11, 2004, 2:15am at here

Penny Lane...I just really struggle with that one.

Penny Lane would be tough. Norwegian Wood is done by every cover band that i've ever seen. Put the capo on the guitar and go. The guitar solo on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' doesnt sound hard at all, but i'm not a guitar player and I have heard the song played out before.

Within You, Without You would be tough.

Quoted from Rowdy, posted July 12, 2004, 4:01am at here

Revolver.

Sorry i bet you think im stupid i dont realy listen to revolver that much

Taxman would be hard, thinking about harmonies (Heath/Wilson)

Any Enjoyable and easy bass line is: I want to Hold Your Hand..Lovely little run.

I don't know much about guitar, but And Your Bird Can Sing seems like it would be fairly difficult.

i think tomorroe neveknows also...casue even in the studio i heard they had a hard time making it

Bump.

I know for us, its a tie between Walrus and Strawberry Fields.  We never really nailed them but got pretty close.  Of course, we have a much stronger string section now then we did for the MMT album so maybe one day we'll get to take a crack at them again.

I exclude Revolution 9 because I don't consider it a song but instead more a soundscape.  Therefore, for our White Album performance I put together a short version of my own using a similar piano intro and the same chant ending but the middle is everything from the Tardis materializing to roosters.

I saw that someone mentioned Tomorrow Never Knows and that song is the only one where we break form and just turn it into a jam and let it go wherever it takes us.  I play my trombone on that one and improve around using some different effects and just have a good time.  You can't always play everything note for note.

Its kind of funny though where our mistakes pop up.  We'll typically get all the hard stuff but then someone will mess up a change in While My Guitar Gently Weeps since its fairly easy just monotonous.

Happiness is A Warm Gun, Hey Bulldog, You Know My Name. All the feel changes in 'I Want You You (She's So Heavy)'

Happiness is fun, we have that on the Youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbvUOVVQe3o
Definitely a tricky rhythm, one day I'll nail the tambourine part in the middle but the tuba swap kind of distracts me, heh.

I know what you mean about the "feel changes", we really enjoyed doing I Want You(Heavy) for some previous shows and get to work it up again since we're doing Abbey Road next year.

Tonight we participated in the local Christmas charity concert that is "The 12 Bands of Christmas".  Nothing difficult but our short 20 minute set was Sgt. Peppers Intro into With a Little Help from my Friends, Birthday (well, we're celebrating JC's aren't we?) Guitar Weeps, Christmas Time is Here Again and My Sweet Lord complete with southern black church choir singing in the aisles for the Hallelujah.  It got a full standing house, totally unexpected.

Did I mention that I'm not even a fan of the Beatles?  I'm a metal and heavy rock guy. However, being that I'm friends with all these guys and had done Darkside of the Moon with them that when they asked I didn't hesitate?  That probably makes me an oddity.

I'm told by a drummer friend of mine that the time changes in Yer Blues are very tough on tub thumpers. And Rain can't be easy either.

Quoted from Kirkwood

Did I mention that I'm not even a fan of the Beatles?  I'm a metal and heavy rock guy. However, being that I'm friends with all these guys and had done Darkside of the Moon with them that when they asked I didn't hesitate?  That probably makes me an oddity.

I think you forgot that little point! Beatallica for you then.

Hey Kirkwood. I loved the Glass Onion that you did. We just started to play that recently and had some fun figuring out that final cello outro. You guys nail i