I'm Happy Just to Dance With You - Rhythm Guitar - Rickenbacker 325

John Lennon's rhythm guitar part for "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You" from the 1964 album and film "A Hard Day's Night" played on a 1999 Rickenbacker 325V59.

[@alonzo7367]

People don't realize how good guitar players John, Paul, and George were and not get credit

[@teresadbrownbrown3785]

Agree

[@thebrainman3006]

People over see it too much, mfs were masters at their craft

[@akiouchiyama]

John lennon was a great rhythm guitarist for sure. This song and all my loving answer

[@chrisst8922]

The greatest rhythm guitarist of all time.

[@GuitarMan1117a]

@@chrisst8922 I agree. He created a totally original style. His guitar parrs on this, all my loving, this boy and others are classic. Sound great and are not easy to play

[@fawful94]

It's his banjo strumming.

[@ronniechilds2002]

@@chrisst8922 I agree with you completely. In a lot of cases, his rhythm playing is what totally drives the song. A few, I Saw Her Standing There, You Can't Do That, their Roll Over Beethoven and R and R Music, All My Loving, I Want to Hold Your Hand...It goes on and on. Exquisite. The boy was pretty good at not just playing them, but coming up with those perfect chords all the time--Magic!

[@avYhz]

Rhythm Guitar doesn’t get enough respect

[@n1night635]

This song and All my Loving are two songs that give Lennon credit for his great rhythm guitar abilities. Really drives the song like any good rhythm guitarist should

[@originnone]

I can only give one thumbs up? Seems a bit unfair....deserves a million.

[@alexlazo1343]

This was very accurate and good

[@NickChristopherson]

Alex Lazo Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@PaulGreen11]

The amount of practice they put in to get to that stage, wow!

[@herodlowery9923]

This is great! The sound is so bright. I’m an old man now, I saw the Beatles in February 1964 when I was nine, on the Ed Sullivan TV show. Your guitar work is excellent!

[@MichaelJohnson-lh7gs]

I'm guessing you can remember pretty vividly first hearing about JFK's untimely passing?

[@herodlowery9923]

@@MichaelJohnson-lh7gs Oh yes. I was 8, in third grade at Midway School in Fellows, California. The school was K-8; a giant eighth grader came over and told my wonderful teacher, Mrs. Ridgway. We were let out of school for the day a little while later.

[@MichaelJohnson-lh7gs]

@@herodlowery9923 I'm always fascinated by stories like this. It was a tragic day, but I still love to hear and read the accounts of people who lived through it for some reason.

[@LarryRickenbacker]

Chords flyin' 'round all OVER the place :) sounds fantastic.

[@gussiewilliam]

Great work. That is a hard song to play and you nailed it.

[@simonabsalon2600]

Its not that hard u just need to work on ur chords switching but still a good song

[@nikotheghostrider]

@@simonabsalon2600The strumming pattern is very hard to get right every time

[@hilmarholland9165]

Great playing!!! With All my loving John's hardest Rhythm-Guitar.

[@pietvanbreemen5334]

BRAVO TO THE LATE GREAT JOHN LENNON! and Bravo to you Nick for showing us some great guitar playing.

[@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753]

Late?

[@grapefruitjuice9473]

@@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753 meaning he's dead

[@thehiddensoulmht]

You deserve a lot more views for this! Bravo 👌

[@NickChristopherson]

Michael Henry Thomas haha thank you very much, glad u enjoyed it

[@mayapande9882]

I enjoyed it so much .... until 100 times more 😊😊

[@ashuapmushuan]

How can some people think that John Lennon was an average guitar player? He could drive a song like nobody else!

[@stickydrummer1.0]

holy shi... it sounds like the original! Really great!. Finally someone played it correct on yt!!

[@charlesdavis5542]

Yeah,man! A fave of mine that never fails to bring tears to my eyes. Saw the film at the old Valencia theater on Jamaica Avenue when it first came out-it was like seeing them in person. Shouts and singalongs-"I love you,Paul!",etc. What a time...

[@MaxDooDat2]

Much better than another version of this on KZbin. You nailed it.

[@kostaskavvathias673]

great work man!!! Who today can writte a song like this...whoooooooooo......we live in dark ages!!!!

[@stanleyhoward1893]

Wow LENNON was a beast.

[@AU-wf3uv]

Fantastic ❤🎉

[@invoxicated]

You nailed it. Also the correct Lennon time signature.

[@AaronEddieHYo]

Um, 4/4, lol?

[@bhadreshmewada7790]

Super performance Thanks

[@paulondra19]

That made me Happy! Good job my friend.

[@ericstewart9742]

I do believe you nailed it, with the authentic chords, unlike some of the other vids that purport to show how it's done.

[@Shaverboy516]

Great job, you kept that tempo and strumming pattern perfect:)

[@billysea7769]

Great job I hope to learn this on my 325 I just learned all my loving

[@KK-uo3qy]

Fantastic!

[@govinda102000]

Marvelous.

[@acedd100]

J'ai toujours aimé le RIF DE GUITARE de John sur cette chanson qu'il a écrite à l'intention de George pour le film A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. Tout comme la chanson All my loving, on peut reconnaître les INFLUENCES DU BANJO sur lequel, sa mère JULIA lui a enseigné à jouer une première pièce THAT I'LL BE THE DAY ! Dommage que cette chanson n'ait jamais obtenu le crédit qu'elle mérite ! Elle figure dans mon TOP 5 de la première période du groupe. Une chanson dynamique qui traduit bien cette merveilleuse époque YÉYÉ

[@2015Zoe]

good job to a classic song

[@bobvogel2412]

You have that Beatlesque sound. SPOT ON. A job well done.

[@brianmorrison7542]

Beautiful job anchoring that pinky!

[@ge_mail]

Nice .... really, really nice 👌

[@marysell2465]

Yes John Lennon was a great rhythm guitar player

[@dbagnis]

Amazing!!! congratulations!!!

[@juancarlosseguros]

Excelente muestra del vertiginoso estilo de Lennon para tocar la guitarra.

[@jelau4851]

FOR ME TO LEARN: put it in half-speed is the trick, THANKS FOR SHOWING

[@pistolp01]

You knocked it out Nick. Well done.

[@Ocramriv]

Thanks for posting your music, great musician ...all memories...

[@edmurnico7508]

Congratulations!!! Greetings from Brasil

[@chaketzcruz1734]

That’s and a great, great Song , It’s Cool

[@davidparen1709]

Superb.....

[@huiphingong6729]

Wow...very good

[@claudemcwhorter]

" It Won't Be Long" is about as good as this ," She loves you", and "I Want to Hold You're Hand" and it deserves more credit than it gets. FAB job here though !!!!

[@user-dk4fw3bw2t]

Профессиональный инструмент - в руках профессионала ! Попадание точно в десятку !

[@dirbjag654]

this is the best cover ive seen so far

[@gratefuldead2379]

Wow it’s just something else to watch this. Fantastic job my friend. ✌🏼

[@MrSuzuki1187]

Very well done!

[@kimunyest5148]

Super !!!

[@oldskoolfool141]

That guitar part is nothing without a little attitude in the playing, bravo

[@perrythomasmusic3709]

Hey Nick, I always played George Harrison's guitar parts in all of their tunes, when I played in two different Beatles Tribute bands, as well as a British Invasion Group and I have to say, you nailed Lennon's guitar part. JL was an excellent guitar player, extremely creative in usually dead on with tripplets or anything else he played. This song showcases his talent, sort of like All My Loving does. Both songs are difficult for a lot of guitarists to get through without screwing up, but you did an excellent job.

[@johncolletto8985]

Tricky triplets in that song . Nice job!

[@yes_head]

Those triplets were Lennon's secret weapon. "That Boy", "All My Loving", this song, etc. It probably goes back to his early days learning banjo chords, which is also where his chord shapes came from.

[@carvalhovascao5047]

Nick,parabéns pelo trabalho! Sou brasileiro e fui n primeiro show de Paul no Brasil,em 89 no Maracanã RJ,viva os Beatles!!!

[@westfield90]

Superb

[@bruceschnur7417]

great guitar great song, you did it well.

[@claudemcwhorter]

DECCA Records " Guitar Bands are on their way out' !

[@santiago_pablo]

Fantástico !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@xyligan4eg_549]

Song beautiful, cool👍

[@donaldpowell8780]

Love this song True beatles style 😎✌

[@pietvanbreemen5334]

Stand up and take a bow Nick! John Lennon had no equal when playing the rhythm guitar. Studio musicians would have starved around The Beatles recording sessions.

[@endi3386]

piet van breemen The beatles had a lot of studio musicians come into abbey road over the years...

[@jabberwocky7964]

@@endi3386 That was mostly around the Sgt. Peppers era. During the early days they pretty much did all this stuff themselves.

[@GuitarMan1117a]

@@endi3386 at this point in time, there was no equal to John at rhythm guitar.

[@bigjohno242]

@@endi3386 - the session players they used were virtually always for classical orchestration sounds , violins, brass , flutes etc which they added to their songs. They were always a highly competent musicians in rock / pop outfit who played their own guitars/ bass / drums/ piano /harmonicas etc .

[@endi3386]

@@bigjohno242 Billy Preston came in to play keyboard, and George Martin played piano on a while host of Beatles songs

[@michaelgray9234]

Brilliant 👍👍

[@gunthro3327]

Great playing

[@robertplaster9041]

Great make it look so easy

[@charleslascari7191]

Terrific job!

[@beatlesrcool13]

Absolutely fantastic job!

[@paulthompson9154]

Awesome cover!

[@ishatype2764]

Well, that just makes me happy. Well done!

[@kelvinmarshall9108]

Wow ...much respect...that is a hard song ...

[@calum1741]

I agree but I am.not musical. Why is it so hard? Looks like loads of chord changes and hand movements

[@kelvinmarshall9108]

Oh if it was that easy ..but as you said ,your not musical !!

[@user-de1yq6xl2o]

Thank-you , so much! I'm Shin'ichiro Sato (male ). From Japan. Good Play…！posted on december 3, 2020.

[@ungmd21]

Spot on! Did you learn it by watching John play it on A HARD DAY'S NIGHT?

[@gbarrazza8843]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏saludos desde Lima Peru..

[@carmenmcrespo4861]

Good job

[@slick2.0_yeah]

With that kind of rythym John has, its no wonder he said " I got blisters on my fingers! " Wow, you did great with all those cord progressions at the original tempo.

[@grungeisdead8998]

I think that was Ringo

[@maumm5188]

Ese fue ringo

[@yesterdayproductions1019]

Great job on that rhythm guitar part.

[@davidparen1709]

Bravo nick....I'm fan of the Beatles too

[@Allan-et5ig]

Nick Christopherson - Fantastic job.

[@sangbrizcali6119]

Hoping to be a pro guitarist just like you..the beatles are my inspirations that’s why I really want to learn the guitar in able to play all their songs

[@poopee426]

wow so impressive

[@janaparoubkova5895]

Super,jsi hrozně šikovnej, paráda!!👍👍😀

[@ThisSquirrelsLife]

Nice Work...

[@Voxac100b]

George was good for me John drove many of the songs along especially live

[@RocknRollMusic-xq7ho]

Nice job!

[@alanoliver5762]

accurate feel!

[@fishgazoo5851]

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!

[@airplanesarecool3416]

Wow, you played it really good! The beatles had such a skill with the guitar as you

[@airplanesarecool3416]

I mean, you have such a skill like the one they had

[@CoolFrog1948]

I have the same rickenbacker... i also notice that this part can be playable in my epiphone 230TD

[@ademargonzalez8391]

Mi corazón se detuvo cuando llegaron los Beatles.

[@zurckoni]

nice job.

[@keithmotsinger918]

Nice.

[@Solidude]

Whoah.. How is this not detected by copyright? I mean I'm not against it, I really wish we can upload Beatles stuff in YT like we can before.

[@yes_head]

Those verse changes are buttah. I was watching an XTC cover recently and they also had really inventive chord changes in the verses. It's pretty easy to see a direct link between the two bands, even though I don't recall many people talking about it in the early 80s.

[@stewartsnape1231]

Super John Lennon style Rick rhythm cover

[@Easy-cg1it]

hell yeah

[@jacquescousteau217]

You picked up on the Aug 7th chord, most miss it.

[@matthewloughran73]

What is an augmented 7th chord, root, augmented 3rd, augment 5th, and a major 7th?

[@joemasse4568]

I don’t know what you call it? But I picked up that chord, and it really makes the sound authentic! Great job!

[@claudemcwhorter]

You're talking about that chord after the A major where you have : a B, and a D sharp, wedged in between two G notes, correct ?

[@sergiocaplan1168]

I don’t know it for a fact, I just know it’s true (- BM) … John Lennon was smiling while playing this happy rhythm part.

[@juliopalatto7844]

nice job!

[@NickChristopherson]

Julio 117 Thanks!

[@stevehoffman9735]

Good job.

[@Voxac100b]

John that guitars alright but you'll never make a living from it... Aunt Mimi

[@Riffs4U1]

Great job gave ya a sub I need to learn that

[@robertocolman]

I don't understand the position of the fingers to make some chords, I don't know which strings to press, is there an image with the chords?

[@roughcutguitars]

Fantastic work! Can't get the tone wrong with that set-up ;-) and you nailed a pretty complex strumming pattern throughout as well! Anything you might have missed just doesn't much matter, does it?

[@janos876]

Is somebody know the chords for this?