Happiness is a Warm Gun - Guitar, Bass, Drums and Piano Cover - Instrumental

[@glennhorvath879]

drums sound perfect

[@SantiagoDeSimone]

i think it is because it fits perfectly with the bass. both instruments are working perfectly together

[@stephenstrang590]

Agreed

[@diegorosas4362]

It's all a perfect

[@morganfayel9329]

Drums, .....and Bass, and Guitars, and Keyboards...

[@mfadhilirawan1545]

Love that bass line

[@hofnerlen]

It really is great

[@maxieboy1232]

Finally someone who appreciates it, I know he is the #3 bassist of all time, but he doesn’t get the recognition he deserves

[@OzTwanger]

Possibly my fave Beatles tune. The time signatures are bonkers in this song

[@bonhamcymbal]

3/4. 4/4. 5/4...just count..John was great at this...good morning good morning is a good example

[@hamueramusic]

@@bonhamcymbal WHAT THE FUCK TIME SIGNATURE IS GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING??!! XD

[@bonhamcymbal]

@@hamueramusic it changes 3/4. 4/4 5/4. Especially the intro which is that there

[@bonhamcymbal]

Johns off beats along with ringos strait time is what throws it to an off feel. Do u have the anthology? ...if so. In the video george martin explains it. Or if u have the audio you can hear paul count

[@bonhamcymbal]

@@hamueramusic kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYbconadeNyHb5Y

[@DomPatek]

That bass line at 1:34 is out of this world.

[@simonegabellini6382]

Is literally a standard bass line from the '50

[@neilcandeloramusic]

@@simonegabellini6382 Yeah but it never sounded like quite like that in 50's.

[@littleshrimp6905]

@@simonegabellini6382 yeah you're right

[@matthewwillard2047]

Actually it's not out of this world this video came from Earth

[@raptormx9502]

Agreed

[@JugaJuga14]

It never fails to amaze how perfectly you got the drum sound. That’s THE drum sound.

[@zeromant80]

0:50 i never knew McCartney double-tracked himself in the bass... holy shit. (I thought he only did it in Gently weeps with a Rick and a Fender)

[@bonhamcymbal]

No...a lot...especcially u.s.s.r

[@bonhamcymbal]

Back in the USSR.is a good example

[@TJamieson-q5j]

It's mad how accurate these are

[@Diego_Aracena_Kovacevic]

I was years trying to figure out what Ringo exactly did in the "mother superior" paragraph untill I saw this video. Thank you :)

[@tyrannosauruszeppelin2205]

So many incredible countermelodies: the guitar riff during ''mother superior jumped the gun'', Paul's melodic bassline, the beautiful organ part in the beginning, the piano in the last section, the guitar part during the intro, the guitar melody at the ending. Genius song and great performance.

[@bonhamcymbal]

Counterpoint

[@sergiosantiago2]

I really appreciate how you added the organ which was almost non existent on the actual versión

[@3155DOGMAN]

Ringo leads them in and out of those time changes, what a time keeper.

[@ralstonwithanr]

This was spot on. My compliments to the chef

[@kirbygene]

Am to Em have never sounded so hauntingly beautiful. I want to hear that intro for a long while.

[@deeg8849]

I don't think the Beatles ever grooved better then on the White album

[@stephenstrang590]

Yeah that isnt a question. Thats a fact.

[@kirbygene]

I agree. I never liked the popularly-held claim that this was a solo album-- John and the other three, Paul and the other three. The arrangements by all four Beatles are stunning.

[@stephenstrang590]

@@kirbygene examples of songs that are clearly not solo acts. Happiness is a warm gun Birthday Dear Prudence Guitar gently Weeps Helter skelter Cry baby cry Sexy Sadie Glass Onion These songs are landmarks in the history of music. They aren't genre defining like pepper. But they are maybe even better in a way. The Beatles soul comes through and you realize that making music in a studio is about understanding how to work together. And that was special in those listed tracks.

[@TheNoisylover]

@@kirbygene Thanks, true

[@carlschumacher3257]

@@kirbygene true, i think that belief may be because The Beatles by this time knew their way around the production aspects and didn't need Sir George Martin's guidance as much. Remember, Sgt Pepper was pretty much produced by Paul.

[@sherwintavarez8539]

Ringo always came up with the perfect beat

[@whathappenedtoclaudio]

This is incredible, the drumming is insane! Thanks for uploading

[@Pheicou]

I always found it interesting how they all changed time signatures several times and Ringo always kept the same one.

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

I find it interesting how it somehow works!

[@dylanlloyd349]

the one right at 1:40 always blows my mind. they totally change time signature and dont even stop playing for a single beat

[@Pheicou]

@@dylanlloyd349 Exactly, Ringo could have easily done a waltz beat but decided to do that instead haha.

[@siciliandefence2073]

🎼 Bang 🎶 ... bang 🎶 ... shoot 🎵 ...shoot 🎵 🤩

[@JohnNiemsMusic]

One of LENNON'S best ever songs! Nicely done mates!

[@edmondlau511]

JohnNiemsMusic yes! This is an amazing song. The lyrics which are mesmerizing, the well layered guitar parts, the awesome rhythm section with the bass and drums plus an incredible vocal make this one of my favorite Beatles songs.

[@JohnNiemsMusic]

@@edmondlau511 Go to my channel and watch my truth song video IF LENNON WERE HERE as it's a tribute to JOHN!

[@gerrycoogan6544]

It's always been one of my favourite Beatles tracks, not least because the whole band performs brilliantly. Paul's bassline really pulls it all together and makes sense of John 's eccentric time signature changes. It's ironic that it's also one the few great ensemble performances by the whole band on an album called "The Beatles" given that most of the album sounds like a collection of solo tracks by Our Heroes.

[@uraniajam]

A lot of us seem to be trying to say the same thing about the way they work together - particularly with regard to multiple “time signatures.” This cover does an excellent job of bringing the precision involved TO LIGHT. One thing I noticed is that I can play along IN TIME because I dug the groove so much - for so many years - over so many multiple listenings. The fact that the song can hold a groove through all of this (due, in no small part, to Ringo) allows ME to, in essence, become a “Fifth“ Beatle as I play along with my acoustic and sing with John. They are so tight, they allow me to have a fifth time that my “je ne sais quoi” distills as the essence of the groove - as each of them evidently must also feel. INCRED

[@rifyrafi]

You sir, are an amazing musician . From a lifelong Beatle fan.

[@itsbenjibrand]

Thank you for sharing this, absolutely nailed it.

[@sallykohorst8803]

Great song and love the tribute to that amazing band once again.

[@JunePittingerMusic]

this is a fantastic cover. the weird conflicting tempos are hard, great job!

[@xthatghomiex2939]

Man that bass in the chorus sounds amazing

[@dodojack1045]

Thank you for the tears generated... So happy & melancholy.

[@Shankopottomus]

You have the lead guitar sound and drum sound of the white album to a T. What are your amp and guitar settings on the SG?

[@Ebvidur]

@The Mystic Fez after Brian Epstein died they mostly used fender amps.

[@harveycan5820]

In this period they used the Vox solid state amp, I believe it is the UL840 model. These have a very crisp built-in distortion circuit. Also perhaps some fuzz boxes. And of course playing through the Leslie amp with rotating speaker, which my guess is the effect on the picking pattern at the beginning of the song. They were experimenting with many sounds for instruments and amps; and on the studio side Geoff Emerick and George Martin were also pushing past the usual barriers. Nice job especially on bass, drums, SG sounds.

[@louiebellas]

Well done man, this song is quite strange to play really. Is that how they did the final section? Paul playing Rickenbacker and Hofner?

[@neilcandeloramusic]

I can only speak for the main bass of the song being the Rick. The end just sounds like 2 different, double tracked bass parts to me. We used hofners and fender six's for those overdub parts to get a different sound, and, because those were the basses that we had while recording.

[@tomislavmikic9809]

Utterly awesome! The sound is nailed all arond. The drums sound is recreated amazingly accurate. Hats off.

[@edmondlau511]

Damn fine cover here, gentlemen. One of my favorite Beatles songs. The timing changes, the tight, crisp drums, great bass lines, well layered guitar parts, awesome vocal and mind tripping lyrics make this an incredible song. Lennon had an incredible ability to put his thoughts to music. One of the most talented for that, in my opinion. What an incredible band. We will never see another band whose pieces all fit together so well like this ever again.

[@CraigfromLA]

Nice to see those amazing arrangements played.

[@GoldenRay82]

I'm amazed of how well you've managed to capture the same sound of the drums on this song. Simply amazing. WOW

[@molag9911]

Best cover I've heard. Impeccable.

[@MichaelTaylor-rz4wm]

Outstanding!!!

[@westfield90]

Wow brilliant

[@Noycey64]

westfield90 agree. I love this.

[@rdave9007]

A top 10 B favorite! Always wished that J added another verse of the intro absolutely the most original lyrical melody and the Middle fix part is fantastic! The Beatles always in four dimensions!

[@themanlostintime17]

This song is specifically hard on drums, and let me tell you man, you did a great job with it.

[@lucaamorosoofficial]

1:06 although the chord A7 is right, Lennon played an A chord with the pinky on the Third fret of the E string

[@daralmazan]

please do a cover of Helter Skelter. Thanks.😊

[@ronnyvonallmen6892]

Favorite Song from the Album…

[@candidoj]

Super awesome !

[@juangarduno4764]

Very good, the rags of the drums are the same as Ringo !!

[@individrus]

Best cover on KZbin! Excellent!

[@mexicanamericanmojo4520]

the bass sounds perfect

[@Henry3Studios]

Second favourite track on White Album behind While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Without Happiness is a Warm Gun, there’d be no Bohemian Rhapsody, Paranoid Android or Jesus of Suburbia as this is the earliest example I could find of a through-composed song.

[@M5guitar1]

Complex and very well done.

[@antoniomosterin2370]

Masters!

[@davidalexbyrne]

You are brilliant at doing beatles songs. I think you should be the first to do every single beatles song that was officially released on their albums, singles and bsides. Also a few more you should do right away are hey bulldog, here there and everywhere you and long long long, octopuses garden, you never give me your money, blackbird, Julia and we can work it out

[@AblyHouse]

David Byrne - thank you! We are going for all of them. For BBC and Decca, ones we like. I actually have Julia (esher) demo finished. I could do both versions though, I did Julia before I was borrowing the J160

[@davidalexbyrne]

@@AblyHouse deadly I look forward to hearing more

[@hoodedman07]

Wow. When you see it like this it really shows how amazing the song is. I’m blow away. Greta job

[@douglasparise3986]

You guys are great

[@TheNoisylover]

Absolutely fabulous! I've gotta feel for Neil doing Another Day ... I know it's not Beatles, but hey, come on. That's some bubbling from the bottom bass.

[@Douglust]

Excellent.

[@hamueramusic]

for george's guitar solo (the really bendy one) that was a different overdub than the one you did for george's rhythm guitar because if you listen closely then you can hear george's rhythm guitar that he also plays at 0:59 (following the bass) but during the guitar solo too.

[@hofnerlen]

wow - eat your heart out Mattiboo. He's good, but every little part is in this, and they recorded it all and made it sound like the song.

[@johnbriancatedrilla4028]

Woah! Calm down mate their contents are different but it doesn't mattiboo suck keep the positive vibes

[@dannoyes4493]

thanks for this... extremely well done.

[@Clemmy54]

Wow...note perfect!

[@lucyinthespy]

This is very John!

[@robertnettleship5467]

what is the time signiture for the section at 1:12 - great job btw. you've really captured ringo's sound

[@milescardis3830]

This might help. This guy analyses every Beatles song. www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/hiawg.shtml

[@Henry3Studios]

9/8 and 10/8

[@bonhamcymbal]

@@Henry3Studios nope

[@bonhamcymbal]

@@Henry3Studios forgetting the e+u's

[@2cnadia]

She's not a girl who misses much Do do do do do do, oh yeah She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand like a lizard on a window pane. The man in the crowd with the multi-colored mirrors on his hobnail boots. Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy working overtime. A soap impression of his wife which he ate and donated to the National Trust. I need a fix 'cause I'm going down Down to the bits that I left uptown I need a fix 'cause I'm going down Mother Superior jump the gun Mother Superior jump the gun Mother Superior jump the gun Mother Superior jump the gun Happiness is a warm gun (bang bang shoot shoot) Happiness is a warm gun, mama (bang bang shoot shoot) When I hold you in my arms (oh, yeah) And I feel my finger on your trigger (oh, yeah) I know nobody can do me no harm (oh, yeah) Because, (happiness) is a warm gun, mama (bang bang shoot shoot) Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (bang bang shoot shoot) Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun Happiness (bang bang shoot shoot) Well don't you know that happiness (happiness) is a warm gun, (is a warm gun, yeah).

[@umbertofurlan501]

mate you're doin a great job. super fun to sing on track

[@BrieannaGraceOfficial]

spot on

[@NessieJapan]

Awesome tutorial. One question about the section "She's well acquainted.." (00:14 to 00:43). This section seems to vamp between an arpegiated Dm add 6 chord and an arpegiated Am7 chord. On the lead guitar (the red guitar), are you playing the triad D,F,B on the top three strings? From your fingering it looks different, but I can't really see so clearly. The staccato syncopation in this part is my favorite part of the song. Also, for the "Mother Superior" section, do you think the A7 is played open like you have it, or maybe as a barre with the root on the 5th fret. (So the chord notes would be A, E, G, C#, G, A.) Similarly for the G(7?) chord in that section: Barred on the third fret with the same shape (G, D, F, B, F, G). Lennon tended to play his flat 7 chords this way. Thanks again for the great run-through!

[@AblyHouse]

Nessie - no problem! I am playing two notes during the first staccato section. xxxx67 for Dm6 and xxxx55 for Am. That part is great, the placement of the stabs catch you by surprise! And yes its very possible John could have played the A7 somewhere else. Id have to take a closer look, he could have played both. They sound a bit different but the notes are the same order

[@ianprescott7924]

No one else comes close to the accuracy of the tone of the guitar, bass, and drums

[@carlosalbertodreselopesdre775]

Excelente

[@basketburger]

Very good 👍

[@bing4126]

1:36, I never noticed that sound before in the song. Even now I have to be listening very closely to hear it. Is it just me or does it sound really interesting, I don't think ive heard a bass sound like that before. Then again I don't listen to bass isolated very often .

[@ВладимирНетленский-ж8и]

All is perfect! (small detail: John's arpejo - Dm (5 fret barre)clean, without any 6! You've really improve much, men! :-)

[@marcusphelan57]

You're right. Oddly though, he doesn't pick the same strings as the Am, the highest note being the F on the second string, the lowest being the A on the sixth.

[@danielshaffer1005]

excellent!

[@gregsandell]

Wow. This was really interesting. Thanks for making this.

[@joaopauloguimaraesbarros7850]

Fantástico!!! Parabéns, muito obrigado!

[@baberoot1998]

Fantastic!

[@kennethspezia7407]

Talented young man

[@mariodorantes9250]

Excelente interpretación, bien tocado. Saludos!

[@kevindavey7536]

Great job. Really great video

[@liink8583]

Amazing as always.. You Won't See Me / Your Mother Should Know? ;)

[@DominikMerscheid]

How did you get this typical Beatles Chorus sound for the rhythm guitar in the last part (01:34)?

[@emanuelzapata6017]

FANTASTICO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Allan-et5ig]

brilliant job, man.

[@drexlerjohn3822]

For some reason when I heard the record I feel John or someone in the 4 did "mouth bass "in the chorus section of the song

[@ablyhouseisolated]

Yes, during the white album they experimented a lot with layering bass parts. There is a bass part probably sang by Dooo (McCartney), Fender bass VI, and Rickenbacker all during the third section.

[@neilcandeloramusic]

There is a little bit of a vocal bass part that snuck into this mix ; )

[@ВладимирНетленский-ж8и]

@@ablyhouseisolated and also Paul is vocalising bass in I Will...

[@frusciante_fan]

Genius

[@devynseverson2273]

Amaaaazing!

[@FridayTheEleven]

Very good! May I ask what is your choice of drum heads?

[@LazerBrendan]

For this one: an older 12" coated remo ambassador, 13" coated remo ambassador new w/ tea towel, 16" coated diplomat w/ tea towel. Snare is a 14" ludwig coated orchestra 60's vintage w/ tea towel

[@camiloceli]

Excellent!!

[@baileywoodroffe]

Mind sharing how you Miked up the drums? Sounds fantastic!

[@AblyHouse]

We have a video on our recording process. For the early Beatles, it's mostly two mikes. AKG D19 Overhead and D20 Kick. For the late stuff like Happiness, we basically just add a bottom snare into the mix with some sort of condenser. We are probably using a Rode NT5 here.

[@harveycan5820]

Are the towels dry or damp?

[@comedyriff5231]

Underrated masterpiece by Lennon.

[@Goohizaus]

This was written similarly to A Day in the a Life where John had independently written the first section, and Paul had added his own section

[@harrisonho8934]

Huh, I thought I read somewhere that John was the one who played the solo. Also, did George use his Les Paul, Strat, or SG on this song?

[@AblyHouse]

I believe its debated! Beatles Books says its George, Beatles Bible says its John. People argue about it in the comments. I think it could be either. We even speculated it could be Johns fretless guitar in a video! I probably used the SG because it was a new purchase at the time. Rocky could have worked too. And John would have used his Casino most likely

[@Dewojet98]

Love it

[@GoodbyeStranger1]

Great job!

[@edilsonbertino5893]

Excelente cover, só faltou a Bartell fretless guitar no solo, mas os timbres estão ótimos 👍👍

[@cr818]

Was the bass double tracked?Amazing

[@neilcandeloramusic]

Yes, and at the end at least triple tracked - at least that's what I hear. Supposedly there's a tuba somewhere in there? Hopefully we will know more when the white album box set comes out this year!

[@pelgervampireduck]

very good!! but why more than one bass?

[@danielnava4788]

uuuuuuuffff great !!!!

[@Mike.Nov51]

Dosnt need cowbell...well done

[@usfazli]

My car is booming with your cover

[@owenklein1917]

Did George or John ever use a Gibson sg in any recordings? George was holding it in some music videos but I don’t know if they ever recorded with it.

[@AblyHouse]

Owen Klein - The SG is one of the instruments George recorded most on. He started using it on Revolver and even live during the short tours after. From Revolver on the Gibson SG was a go-to guitar. The Les Paul he got from Eric was pretty similar so less often after that. Then he gave it to the Bad Finger guy I believe in the early 70s

[@owenklein1917]

Ably House ahh, I see. I didn’t really know what he used passed revolver.

[@athousandsunny54.44]

1:11 bassline 👌

[@FernandoGarcia-lz7xw]

No encuentro I CALL YOUR NAME no la han sacado?

[@vicentevittola3168]

Lindo - gostei de tudo - já fiquei fã - obrigado pela beleza plástica desse vídeo -

[@MrRom92DAW]

I’ve enjoyed seeing all these instrumental remakes show up in my feed... but I just noticed this video was shared on Ephraim Shamir’s Facebook page! I take that as meaning you’ve officially impressed a rock legend. Not often he posts something besides political rants these days LOL