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^^^ John's favorite chord figure: the barred (with pinky) E7.

Looks like an A7 to me...

dpowell wrote:Looks like an A7 to me...

Yes; a barred-at-the-fifth-fret E7 is an A7. I was referring to the fingering, not the chord being played.

She's a Woman:
barred twelve = E7
barred ten = D7
barred five = A7

He used that pattern a lot. Can't recall specifics from the Let It Be film but we see this quite often.

He would also use the pinky placed on the 4th string 4th fret when he played a regular old D. (correct me if I'm wrong) but think that technically made it a Bm7 (?) .... but hey, close enough.

Well, with no bass note that would be a bit ambiguous. The notes you refer to, with a D bass, would be a D chord. With a B bass, it would be a Bm7. With an F# bass, that would be a D/F#.

I've played with guitar and bass players that don't know the D/F# notation. Guitar plays a D chord; bass plays an F# note.

John's chords in All My Loving verses fall into the same four-strings-only patterns.

Back to those groove Beatles pictures!

It's always seemed to me that JPGR really cut loose and enjoyed themselves
while playing Long Tall Sally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7dVqFl2hBA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZFgIrnQlxA
another interesting vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-PwXZG1TbE

Presumably a photo-shoot, with no mic's up they're not going to hear much( well vox anyway)......

feedback wrote:

Presumably a photo-shoot, with no mic's up they're not going to hear much( well vox anyway)......

Rehearsals (in Miami, me thinks) for The Ed Sullivan Show. Perhaps they had to map out stage placements, and
producers had to see who went to the mics at what time so they could pre-arrange close ups, hence the mic-less
mic stands.

There are a few shots of George holding one of John's guitars (and even Paul's Hofner), but this Miami rehearsal shot is one of the few I've see the other way around...
maybe the only one?