Don't Bother Me | Lesson and Analysis | Supplemental Video

[@kevinmoore4237]

This isn't a backhanded compliment - the full band and isolation videos are great - but these explanation videos are significantly more valuable because they add insights that we'd be far less likely to figure out on our own or from other resources. There are many excellent video covers out there (Kanayama et al), but nothing else like this, where you dig into the details and explain them verbally. The currently shelter-in-place situation would be an ideal opportunity to do a set of videos like this for each song you've already researched and performed.

[@AblyHouse]

Kevin Moore - Glad you feel that way! I’ll try to work some lessons of the older videos into the newer ones. Thanks!

[@mattmichael6792]

Kevin Moore but, it’s in the whole ensemble arrangements where you hear the unmistakable sonic proof if they’ve truly unlocked the code.

[@wc.1212]

@@AblyHouse I think i'm the first Taiwanese to watch your videos....since late 17.

[@jamesbrady8535]

The KZbin channel Stu Sutcliffe makes excellent early Beatles videos too.

[@kevinmoore4237]

@@jamesbrady8535 do you have a link? All I could find was a channel with one video, a cover of Love Me Tender.

[@jameshitt8385]

I love you showing the chord progressions, George was a true musician.

[@robertomarin1653]

Eres un genio todos ustedes este tema es mi favorito lo baile cuando yo tenia 15 años en un cumpleaños y me quedo para siempre en mis recuerdos tengo 72 felicitaciones genio.

[@daytripper9222]

Some people have said that this was a Harrison throw away. I could not disagree more. I think this is one of George Harrison's best. I have always liked this song a lot.

[@ThatBobGuy850]

Andrew, here's the thing that makes you guys extra-special: There are a lot of Beatles-tribute bands out there in YT land. But *you* guys are all so talented that you can not only replicate what "the lads" are playing, but actually get into their heads to try to figure out why they did the things a certain way. It's hard to know in the absolute, of course, but I believe you and Neil have sort of an "inside line" to what they were thinking as their songs evolved. It's fascinating, and every bit as entertaining as your covers of the songs. Keep up the great work!

[@blackspace007]

Their early stuff just hits different, with this being one of my absolute faves. With your break down of John and George's parts, I can really see why this song does it for me. It's a whole vibe that makes me feel like I'm in the early 60's

[@brenthooton3412]

George Martin's smirk at 1:43 tells me that he is SATISFIED with your pun.

[@ronniechilds2002]

Sir you are unmatched at this. Your insight into their playing is without rival. I'm also a Mike Pachelli fan, by the way; he goes at it a little bit differently. I really appreciate what you do. As a kid I must have spent thousands of hours sitting by the family record player, lifting the needle and backing it up over and over, playing 45's at 33 rpms, all of that.

[@Daytripper51]

Great vid! You really dissected this song......more!!!

[@tonyroma7599]

Wow, great info about George I never heard before and a great job playing his licks

[@1Keef]

Thank you for this amazing lesson and fascinating background information on this oft-forgotten Beatles classic. It is a fantastic diversion while isolating! Cheers and stay safe!

[@forastero4ever]

Hi! Bryan Jones

[@drutgat2]

As always, FANTASTIC stuff, Andrew. Many thanks. It sounds to me that John's descending chord, note plucking might have pre-figured the main 'I Feel Fine' riff - I know that he got that riff from Bobby Parker's 'Watch Your Step', so maybe this is even earlier evidence of John slipping this into a Fabs song. It has also just occurred to me that the title, theme and lyrics of 'Watch Your Step' might have influenced the title, lyrics and theme of 'Run For Your Life'.

[@garywood5882]

Some Other Guy is a similar riff to I Feel Fine too

[@yensilluap]

That was great! I read once where this song was basically dismissed as an early attempt of George to write a song and that it wasn’t up to his later standard- I thought that was rubbish! The song is truly unique with its ambiguity of minor and major throughout, and the number of chords he uses. It has a good, catchy melody and has a great overall mood to the whole song. The modulation in the middle bit is pretty advanced too, I would say. When I was a teenager I remember listening to the record to figure out the solo which was something you could hum in your head and seemed well thought out.

[@AblyHouse]

Paul Lisney - its a complicated first song for sure!

[@paulrickson9796]

Grossly underrated. Frequently overlooked, IMHO.

[@garywood5882]

If George had given this song to another Mersey Beat band they would have had a hit with it. It's better than I Wanna Be Your Man easily

[@chuckwagon5518]

You get the nuance in the playing! Soup for you!

[@localbod]

Great explanation of this Harrison tune. I have always loved the energy and tightness of "With The Beatles" and feel that it's overlooked as an album.

[@clos5700]

I have started learning how to play the guitar and was looking for videos on how to play Beatles songs. Don't Bother Me is one of my to 10 favorite Beatles songs and I must say I was blown away with all the tidbits you interjected into the lesson. Thanks for a great lesson.

[@jamesbrady8535]

You guys are very talented as well as being great educators. I've been a Beatles fan for my whole life and I've played guitar now for 40 + years and you guys isolate parts I never knew existed. Excellent ears !

[@marceloperigolo9675]

Great research. Lots of information. Congrats.

[@mmsb13_420]

Excellent video! That's one of my all time favorite songs by The Beatles (along with I Need You). Gotta luv George! 🎸

[@tach409]

Great tune! Great lesson!

[@maximobenatti6110]

Great song and great job you made!!

[@mattmichael6792]

My favorite content on the tube. You guys are creating an epic body of work. Epic smoking hot body of work!

[@pieta9097]

is the whole ably house staff now growing quarantine beards?

[@AblyHouse]

pieta909 - Exactly, or Corona-beards. Its the first time we haven’t had to shave for gigs!

[@theknightsofawesomeness2701]

@@AblyHouse Keep the beard. I actually like it.

[@IsaacArbec]

Let it Beard

[@onderov]

Well done! One of my favourite guitar parts from John!!! He was excellent rhythm guitar player. Thank you for the video.

[@calliopivogiatzis2235]

It's such a great song! One of George's best!

[@rickpinelli1586]

I miss my 1965 Gretsch Country Gentlemen guitar.

[@Allan-et5ig]

Man, I've seen Beatle obsessives before but you guys take it to the edges of space. And a bloody good thing you do, too. Thanks for all the passion! (I know better than to get in the way of men in love with an idea!)

[@mnpd3]

A really dark song for the EARLY Beatles who only initially sang about the experiences of love. In a few years it would be psychedelia, dope, revolution and whatever. Thanks for doing this. I was alive when these songs were played over the AM radio of the day - some of the radios started having FM capability, but there were no stations to listen to.

[@truthhurts3479]

Best deconstruction of a song ever

[@merontfeelta2557]

Playing with one finger on the guitar causes positive emotions. GooD)))))))

[@johnemerson2876]

Wow! Just so good, to see and hear all these Beatles Secrets, thanks so much for all your hard work.

[@peterringwald9334]

Excellent

[@rudyramirez9904]

I loved this song from the very first time I heard it! Everything about the song is great, but what really got to me was the percussion. I thought it was Ringo doing it all, but now I know that it was collaboration of wood block, tambourine and doumbek (not Arabian bongo). Thank you for putting this out there.

[@jamesdean187]

Great analysis Andrew, excellent!

[@philb1649]

Wow super analysis. You have an an amazing ear for the notes. How do you go about it? Love the demo analysis.

[@CarlosLQT]

en 17:50 George intenta tocar la "Alborada" de Francisco Tárrega.

[@AblyHouse]

Very cool, thanks for the info! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGPPomuNrJ2df5I

[@christopherweaver2398]

Well done,sir!

[@rubbersoul7212]

Good lesson for quarantine. thank you for the lesson :)

[@orangeandslinky]

It's just amazing how you young guys totally study our music the way you do. You have so many resorces to learn from that we didn't have back then. Keep it up man!

[@georgemarie8583]

Great. Thank you.

[@roychristopher5014]

well done!!

[@philmstud2k]

The first Beatles song I learned. Thank you so much for the valuable insight!

[@drexlerjohn3822]

Interesting observation here. It seems Lennon and Harrison slightly switch roles. Usually the parts you say Lennon played here are what I expected George to play, and vice versa. It's amazing how well proficient The Beatles were in guitar playing .

[@youssefkasim7556]

I love these types of videos. More of it please. What's the band's name?

[@AblyHouse]

We are Ably House!

[@MLFranklin]

4:40 -- that is one of the coolest parts.

[@MrMarcbolan]

thank you, amazing

[@Paul_is_bread]

Will there be more videos from your concerts in the future? You are a wonderful tribute, I need your performances in 720!

[@juke699]

I'd like to see you do "Ruby Baby" from the Beatles Hamburg recordings with Tony Sheridan and "Think for yourself " off of Rubber Soul....

[@bolivianprince7326]

you are so fan that you even decipher the demo, thats nice

[@1rwjwith]

Great job, fantastic! The song is underrated in my opinion. Cool guitar interplay and kind of rare with Lennon playing very notable guitar on a Harrison song.

[@ronniechilds2002]

I think Lennon's (I guess) guitar part is the coolest part of the song. It's just wicked. and only they could have come up with it.

[@ronanfitzgerald7524]

loving the beard

[@hamueramusic]

on "Think For Yourself" Paul Mccartney actually used his own fuzz pedal, the Vox Tonebender

[@michaelswinson5199]

Very cool you’ve got a great ear

[@Allan-et5ig]

Your beard is like Ringo's in his beatnik days, lol. Seriously great video. John's rhythm guitar is (I hate to use that word!) truly brilliant and really 'does,' drive the song.

[@ghramsey1681]

You guys are so great at analyzing The Beatles' songs and breaking them down. I love the videos. I am an enormous Beatles fan as you guys seem to be. Can I ask if you could maybe do a similar analysis for the group Badfinger who were proteges of the Beatles. They had so much help from George Harrison and Paul McCartney. Jerry Molland's song Sweet Tuesday Morning could have been an offshoot of something McCartney himself wrote in his later Beatles period. It sounds like Blackbird in some aspects. GH did slide work and produced on Day After Day. It would be wonderful for a video about some of their songs. The song Better Days is one that comes to mind. It's a very underrated song.

[@guitarkidtj261]

Could you please do a cover of the end by the Beatles please it’s my favourite Beatles song

[@joaoterezinha]

Very good

[@frederickglasser5617]

the way he presents the song/analysis/lesson, it almost sounds like he's playing I Feel Fine

[@jmm1000]

The Forensic Four. Love this.

[@garyroy6497]

Can you play turn turn turn by the byrds with you on vocals pleaseeeee

[@joshwmusic6838]

LOVE IT!

[@Paul_is_bread]

That's great! I have one question. Is it the same Gretsch Country Gentleman or u have 2 gretsches dark red and black? I can not understand whether this is lighting or two guitars :)

[@AblyHouse]

Haha, it's the lighting. It's a dark cherry. The same would happen with the lighting on George's Country Gentleman. I have just one

[@Paul_is_bread]

@@AblyHouse thx my friend! :) It's just an important question for me. I bought a replica of this guitar, and in the room is always black -___- . Only under the sun it's red, and I worry about this. I had to carefully choose the color :)))

[@AblyHouse]

Максим Днепрянин - When I first got the guitar in 2014, I was a bit scared I got the wrong one. Brendan and Neil assured me it was a good color. The same thing happened with getting George’s Sgt Pepper costume, it’s a salmon color

[@Paul_is_bread]

@@AblyHouse wow, I am not alone in my strange experiences! Then everything is fine, thanks, I felt better с:

[@jimwalshonline9346]

A highly underrated track.

[@EliteOneTV]

So the lead guitar was the rickenbacker not the country gent?

[@AblyHouse]

Bryan Arevalo - I believe so

[@fshoaps]

thanks for this, andrew

[@TAkridge]

Love all the info you give!!! Just curious what model of Gretch that you are using and what the red things near the bigsby?

[@ds2td]

Andrew, do you play George during gigs? I could see you looking kinda like George if you were to dye your hair dark brown.

[@AblyHouse]

Yes, that's correct. I do my best!

[@carlosjaras9640]

I will subscribe , nice video..

[@lynettekomidar2819]

My fav

[@juke699]

Actually it was the 2nd -- Cry for a Shadow co-written with John Lennon was the 1st....

[@FKMDC]

Yeah but it's instrumental

[@ntm-music8769]

so it was john who played the lead too! i knew i shouldn’t have listened to wiki haha

[@johndickus7254]

cool.

[@leobodenheimer9815]

@ably house Where did you get your guitars from?

[@babysmurf3160]

can you please please do a cover of "Sun King" by the beatles because its so mellow and interesting. Just a thought

[@codyzander3748]

Rickenbacker little guitar fat sound 🤘

[@crudeliocastillejoscrudo8255]

It seemes to me that in the vocals the first 2 A are Am altough I see them everywhere as Major, then A7.

[@pieta9097]

hell yea!

[@TheVinylBeatles]

Flatwounds right ?

[@AblyHouse]

VINYLBEATLES - Yea, everything up until about 1965. The Tennessean possibly had lighter gauge strings

[@Goohizaus]

They actually turned down the volume on their guitars I guess it makes sense but it's inconvenient

[@jerryramirez8444]

I thought it was great, Plenty of info. In such a short time; oh Beatle" " George; what a brilliant mind. I'm 69' I was 12 When the Beatles" came out; unlike today' we had to figure out the chords, from then to the(mid)70's. I want'nt a Rickenbacker" (No-go) was stuck with a (59)" Gibson " Melody Maker" still have it.✌'

[@lopskfo2123]

I LOVE YOU

[@reinholdheintz6864]

Hi! Please tell me which Model of Gretsch Guitar is this Counrtry Gentleman. Made in Japan? in Which year? it sounds like a sixities original. Is it all stock or modified?

[@geminilyons9859]

Now I know where John got the idea subconsciously for DON'T LET ME DOWN. Those beginning chords sound it off when you play it slow .

[@zacharybrown4109]

what guitar pedal were you using?

[@AblyHouse]

No pedal, I usually don't use them. The Beatles tried out the Maestro Fuzz Tone (or something similar) on that day but decided against it

[@chrisnewman7281]

One of the Beatles, most underrated songs a nice contrast to paul saccharin, sweet songs

[@brianfergus839]

3:48 Don’t… let… me… down

[@kypekka]

Such a great song though dismissed by George himself ( in Beatles/John tradition). I always loved it and your keen ears and attention to detail put even Mike Pachelli to shame. (Not meant against him, his 'soundalikes' are great)

[@stoic_itoh]

英語も分からんしギターも弾けないが今からカントリージェントルマン買ってくる。

[@stoic_itoh]

@@sendakatsuto ダメだ。コロナのせいで店が開いてない。

[@sandrabecht4489]

👍👍🇩🇪

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

Thurston's kid...?

[@rd812]

Why doesn’t he call out the chords?

[@RickGameplays]

Man, you look like Johnny ramone

[@adrianayala8506]

PLEASE SHE SAID SHE SAID

[@tavarix9201]

Kurt Cobain singing the Beatles

[@felipecollazo-pagan9363]

I cant believe Geroge Martin stopped the The Beatles from using a distortion pedal on record as early as 1963. It would have been amazing to see how their sound would have evolved if things would have gotten a little gainier. I appreciate Mr Martin's contributions but this one sucked.

[@dennisberceles7387]

Speech is for the politicians alone.. or the reason is that you can't sing 'cos you're out of tune. So you resort to speaking engagement.🤣😂🥵

[@jeromehattkronen2305]

It was great till you started singing at around 7:36 George never sang it like that.. close but no potato

[@TLSongsss]

He’s just singing it for reference into the song.

[@Henry3Studios]

He’s just singing it for reference so that the learner knows where they are in the song

[@biggerdaddy2]

Always ALWAYS impressed with you lads

[@middarklight]

Excellent