NGW: Beatles Boot Camp

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:56 am

If anyone is interested, National Guitar Workshop this summer will conduct a week-long "Beatles Boot Camp" seminar at two locations (Connecticut and Virginia) covering Beatles music.

www.guitarworkshop.com

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:54 pm

Very me, Mark, but very far away....

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:39 am

Sorry, Mike.

But there are planes from Arizona to the east coast . . .

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 8:45 am

...and god knows I've been on a dozen so far this year. Have fun if you go, Mark!

randyz · Post by **randyz** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:30 am

A Beatle boots camp? You mean a bunch of guys line dancing in Beatle boots? I think I'll sit that one out...

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:09 am

I sat in on a few of the sessions (since it was next door to my class and I was getting a little bored anyway).

The instructor basically handed out chords/tabs of Beatle songs and had the class run through them once or twice.
Some analysis was done about why certain chords (or voicings) were used but not much.
Though a couple of the guitar players in the class were pretty good they were also very young and knew nothing about basic theory so a lot of the instructor's time was taken up with the basics of chord structure and scales.

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:38 am

Speaking of chords, on 'Things We Said Today', most books have:

C ....................... C7
Someday when I'm lonely

Not so. Try this and you'll see it sounds much more like the record:

C ....................... C9
Someday when I'm lonely

325_fan · Post by **325_fan** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:08 am

Right you are Kent! I love how The Beatles mixed the chords up in certain songs.