Lesson prep today is particularly fun, as it involves getting the electric guitar part to "Nowhere Man" together. This is one of the places where the "Beatles Complete Scores" really kind of falls down on the job. It doesn't take into account that both George and John played it in "unison" on their brand new pale blue Strats (they had sent Mal down the street to buy them), through 2 little amps with one mic set up between them recording both. So that slightly 12-string-ish sound is really just variations in their tuning, phrasing, and timing. And certainly in the case of that very first swept arpeggio in bar 8 they are clearly playing 2 different chord voicings (there's a dominant 7 buried in there) that I have never been quite able to untangle. Add to that the incredible Abbey Road compression that no stomp box can ever recreate and you get a sound that I can only hint at, but never duplicate.
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