PAUL MCCARTNEY SONGWRITING FOR STANDING STONE

documentary excerpt - speaking about the songwriting for his classical album 'standing stone'

[@elisiamarie2000]

I got instruments coming out me trousers - Paul McCartney

[@TheCullen513]

Hes got a wallace ang gromit keypad, fucking epic

[@rami6049]

"I can play things through a keyboard..... quite reasonably.." what a smooth euphemism for "I'm a music Legend!" :D ohh Paul ^^ :)

[@69birdboy]

Benny Hill...define tangible...thats rubbish..the beatles came up with ALL the genius, George translated some of their more sophisticated ideas into reality, so for example the musical solo of .In my life...John and paul wrote..all the song, without the song, which is written by an extremely talented 25 year old, the harpsichord sounding piece wouldve been nothing..... The beatles always brought GEMS of songs in which allowed gerogfe to play and run riot with in conjunction with them..but tangible music..the songs were all written before the studio \9well unless lennon wrote on the hoof or get back) George was a good tranlatopr of their more abstract ideas but, the beatles and the ideas in the first place...george was a very talented sideman.

[@chipgaasche4933]

birdboy, you underestimate George Martin.

[@chipgaasche4933]

Rami, Paul never was a great keyboard player. Creative? Yes.

[@dalfifran7572]

@Benny Hill I wouldn't call it translate, because all of them could stand quite excellent on their own. Maybe accommodate their huge talent and potential to the max is more accurate. What made him special is he never dismissed them, no matter how absurd the lads idea. Martin also influential for classical influence and studio work to Paul. He also contribute some orchestra arrangement and keyboard work.

[@Mauricio-ek6rg]

@@chipgaasche4933 why?

[@johnnyroman8600]

That what makes paul mccartney a genius he keeps on learning!😋

[@peropen]

This!

[@AlexisGonzalez-tj6hl]

"NOOOOOOO, we wont have that" love it. What a master. He learned which notes work back in his pepper days. What young blazing guns they were. Extremely sharp those boys mustve been.

[@frankie1138]

That's what I love about Paul. He is openminded to new ideas, computers for instance. George was not very happy about drum programming. He said something about beatbox..I don't remember.

[@joebrewer4529]

George is also kind of lame in a way

[@frankie1138]

@@joebrewer4529 okay, a very late answer. :-) I do not think, George is lame. He brang fresh ideas into the Beatles.

[@joebrewer4529]

@@frankie1138 overall his musical career was pretty lame you know he didn't experiment with synthesizers or anything nor John I mean Paul was the only one who has explored musically what he could do. George was kind of a fuddy duddy like John was a fuddy Duddy. and even with the mug record that sort of seemed to be like just a novel record he didn't seem to have some sort of long going interest. Georgia solo careers all right musically. Paul sort of just continued and many variations whether that was a side project or some of the other things he's done and then even if those things he's done in the last several decades aren't they good at least they were adventurous.

[@frankie1138]

@@joebrewer4529 See Electronic Sound Album by George Harrison. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpfImpeebbWEi5Y George was really open minded to experiments.

[@joebrewer4529]

@@frankie1138 although it seemed that way I don't think he was. none of the Beatles were really into any of the stuff they influenced after they broke up. And Paul's really the only one that sort of spread his wings.

[@BillyReedMusic]

Amazing to see all these musicians playing some ideas that Paul had floating around in his mind!

[@gabrielal1364]

Really admired him because he's an artist who really likes to be involved in all the process of doing music. Currently, despite his age, he's still going on, learning about the new trendies and new technology stuff. He's one of the few artists who really love the music and always tries to do his best in each album he does. A very responsible man in all sense!

[@empowermph]

the DAW he's using is an early Cubase SX, then they transcribe the notation and print to traditional sheets for the orchestra members. I love seeing one the greatest songwriters in history embracing all forms of production. Truly inspiring

[@JonnyLipshamStudios]

No. It pre-dates Cubase SX by a LOT of years! The program is Cubase v.1.0. It had a very basic notation editor built into it, but it was not very accurate. But, a good arranger helped Paul to orchestrate his mock-ups.

[@gabrielal1364]

It's fascinating! Year by year, since his career with The Beatles to nowadays, he hasn't just improved his songwriting skills but also he has gone with the technology flow which it's so amazing!!!

[@SeamusMcMichael]

Paul's so sophisticated!

[@EclecticSceptic]

Man I wish that video kept going.

[@sharigreen9252]

There's a full documentary on KZbin about an hour called Paul McCartney's Standing Stone. Really cool documentary.

[@EclecticSceptic]

@@sharigreen9252 Thanks pal

[@cumbiapedregal1113]

quien en cuarentena viendo a este maestrazo legendario

[@AlejandroMinnelli]

I see Faul using the mouse with his right hand here... just kidding, love you Paul!

[@manuelhelguero5127]

Paul es ambidiestro. Y hay infinidad de fotos y vídeos previos a 1966 mostrando a Paul usando la mano derecha como sostener el cigarrillo, saludar e incluso firmando. Por aquellas épocas, no había instrumentos para zurdos y había que adaptarlos o adaptarse uno mismo y usar la derecha.

[@jeanniemarie3850]

😂😀😅😂

[@PANTECHNICONRecordings]

I’m left-handed but hold a mouse in my right hand - I don’t suppose it’s too uncommon.

[@gabrielal1364]

@@PANTECHNICONRecordings Yeah, it's really common. Also, there' re more right-handed people than left-handed so probably, in his childhood and teeange, he had to adapt many behaviours just for adaptation like handle certain things with the other hand... it's just adaptation

[@kringles4]

Very beautiful.....I am going to order the Standing Stone DVD.....thanks for posting. Ram on, Joe in NH, USA.

[@TheFesta01]

i was doing the exact same thing around the same time with cubase on a atari st and a yamaha qs300 music workstation - good times : )

[@MarsHalekGuitar]

McCartney still rocks, too!

[@saschabudko]

Sir Paul and Piano Roll .. Nice ;)

[@lisalentile177]

he's so adorable he ages like fine wine at least he don't do plastic surgery ppl look better their age just leave it alone

[@PrathamBhatia]

Wow this is such a modern hifi technology. I record in my tape recorder. I wish i can have this

[@arnebarnard]

Cubase circa 1997 or thereabouts. Glad I missed THAT bullet.

[@emh26]

"I've got instruments coming out me trousers." Oh, deary deary me. I bet you do Paul. ;)

[@mccalennonharristarr]

i love you paul!!!!

[@Goedhartbros]

Funny to see McCartney with a computer. I didn't expect it from him.

[@bowlstrum]

I am glad that The Beatles didnt have computers. Because it was all real and not fake.

[@narancsszorp]

0:44 CUTIEEE!!! ^^ blink Paul, blink!! :D

[@celloprofundo]

@FearghasG ...those are the first two things that popped into my mind...I bought some chocolate pudding from servomation once that had metal shavings in the bottom of it...I was going to turn it in to the health department but my girl-friend got mad, threw it at me and missed, and it splattered all over her grand-father's dining-room wall...with great velocity values..looked like a jackson pollock painting ; )...but I digress...thank you

[@kanishk7267]

Inspiring.

[@lisalentile177]

he's so adorable he ages like fine wine at least he don't do plastic surgery ppl look better their age

[@4FabBEATLES]

@petebest62 actually he''s written 3 symphonies- amazing- isn't it. (Working Classical,Standing Stones, & Ecce Cor Meum

[@JohnnyFreeze92]

cool video, thanks for posting!

[@fionasowncovers4]

I Hate composing on the computer! We have to do it at school :( we don't learn anything about composing, just how to double click and make new files I still dont understand it :( I realy want to learn but it seems teachers dont care about teaching anymore it's all online and stupid :/

[@luizverdecanna8023]

Paul had no idea that the programs and instruments would be much more advanced soon like we have today like Pro Tools, Sonar, Cuba Base and the easy one Audacity. No orquestra is necessary all instruments can be reproduced in a single Keyboard Yamaha.

[@FearghasG]

@celloprofundo I'm talking about Automation lines and Midi velocity values.

[@Vittoria10538]

@Guliganen78 Ha...I'm a Cubase girl. I know what you mean; it's sort of cool to see McCartney using it.

[@rareguestalex]

This is Cubase for sure :)

[@AdrianaRojas53]

Well, I think that Paul do the right thing using a computer for help himself with de partitures, I care for the result, Standing Stones is magnificent. I love his classical music and all the other of course.

[@ShukitaShipper05]

Paul: So here he is...Culprit; with a new note....Ha! Nooo....we won't have that... LOL HAHAHA! Paul you are the funniest person ever!!

[@EarsSoSmall]

@MoXoM ..... That's EXACTLY what I was thinking! Because of the keyboard thingy on the side, plus If that's when that technology was just starting out, those kind of macs were very prevalent. Looks like a Macintosh II or Macintosh IIvx??

[@Helgamarychanteli]

@HGaray314 Its an early version of cubase

[@LanIost]

Man, I wish I had the money to be able to make something in Cubase with the knowledge that I could print it out and have real musicians play it on queue like that, just out of respect for me musicially ;-)

[@winteronyxnight]

yay he mentioned Oboe! we always get ignored....

[@fredpsal]

I love the haunting sound of oboe, and obviously so does the knight who composed this piece. Thank YOU for choosing this beautiful instrument!

[@gherkamum]

nice one paul.....

[@chrishussey4510]

I wonder wot was the music program called that he used on the computer

[@CAVERN1234]

Cubase

[@JonnyLipshamStudios]

Cubase v.1.0.

[@liliroquelin]

the best non-classical trained songwriter! Julliard snobs can "shove" it LOLLLL

[@pnnorton]

@CentraCross Some people think the exact same thing about the electric instruments.

[@KayleighRM]

wallace and gromit mouse mat :')

[@FriendlyShadow1]

"I've got instruments coming out me trousers." LOL

[@getback9691]

Did any of the other Beatles write a symphony? Nuff said!

[@ignacioclerici5341]

Paul was the most ambicious of the 4, by far

[@FearghasG]

@celloprofundo the computers don't harmonize for you. And harmonizing is the easiest, EASIEST part of composing something. There after all only 12 different notes to harmonize in two-part, 23 in three-part, and 34 in four-part harmony. Its not like its that hard to come up with a harmony to a note. Its all about placement and chord progressions, and the all important dynamics, that make composing hard. In that part, the computers become useful (dynamics are easy to plot out)

[@celloprofundo]

@FearghasG ..With you for the most part but kinda fuzzy on the dynamics...are you talking about the building blocks or the arranging of a song? ; )

[@carmaj156]

@CentraCross I think digital music is not bad per se. Humans since the very begining used all the resources they had at hand to make music, and now we have technology. The problem comes when people stop being creative and let the computers think for themselve. Music is 100% human. I agree today's so called musicians just make a loop and don't create anymore. But there are some great electronic musicians who are excellent like Björk or Gustavo Cerati.

[@jaimegonzalez1996]

is that garage band haha

[@beatlemaniac2201]

He reminds me of a fun mom named Karen

[@rexmundi2237]

Does anyone know the name of the computer software he's using? Is it Fairlite? Totally antiquated now of course, Macca's probably using Ableton or Protools now.

[@aza3ful1]

right now he's using cubase, no clue about what that one is though

[@BariAndolini]

Human element is missing. I'm using Logic Express & I always here musicians saying in there day we only had that & stuff, which to my mind makes the whole creative process more exciting. Not everybody that puts an idea down onto a computer will get an orchestra & a choir to perform it, but it would be nice! lol!

[@normansantiago4759]

0:57 it was like the Baby Shark intro....

[@rolandgerard6064]

Nice music btw...

[@campbellclan7363]

Neil at 2:12 :)

[@Leeate]

The program is Cubase isn't it?

[@moxom]

That looks like Cubase running on a Mac. Very interesting...

[@bigswerves]

that chello at the end is kinda haunting

[@bilbomarks]

@langerguitarboy Lol. Sweet, sweet validation, right?

[@beany1324]

haha is that like Pro Tools 1 he's using? It's funny how quickly it starts to look old!

[@MJBSAMMYGz]

Now Sir Paul got 3 ipod 4 iphones 5 ipads and 10 macs!

[@scottf7]

I think it might be a Mac

[@minstrelofMir]

this haS 10x the views of the full documentary,,you have taken veiwers away from the full show

[@coldoasis2142]

PUAL LIKES WALLACE & GROMIT @ 1:19!!!!

[@GolfTesla]

that must have been a super expensive DAW at the time, and a high performance and also expensive MAC.--

[@PYE172]

what do you use paul q bass

[@spartan876]

Computer monitors then looked like boxes, lolol

[@NRGSave7]

Try listening closely, for hours on end, to music and separate the pieces (bass, percussion, rhythm guitar, lead instruments) into their parts, including melody etc. Pick up an instrument and try to play those parts and try to write some. Or get a keyboard and select the sound you like and play that. Then record that and try to layer some parts. Then progress to a computer to allow recording and arranging. If you don't find this interesting, music isn't for you. I learned w/o a teacher.

[@rolandgerard6064]

He is using cubase

[@FearghasG]

@byron151227 nope

[@4FabBEATLES]

@jlaz89 Cakewalk

[@celloprofundo]

Would the Beatles been able to harmonize as well as they did "live", if they could've had computers do it for them in the studio? It's like calculators in the class-room, it takes out all the heavy lifting that discipline requires...

[@FreakingGreenDayFan]

Whats the name of this program??

[@ferabra8939]

Lennon never knew a PC, let alone a laptop.

[@gabrielal1364]

Well, he used to say he had troubles about typing in a typewriter so I just can imagine he would had difficulties writing in a computer currently if he was here with us...

[@1594615]

High 5 William, I mean Wallace...

[@OSUIMahawaditra]

probably CakeWalk or ... Nuendo ;)

[@tonuntworpol5645]

BLENDER

[@777i2i]

if he did - they would not have been the beatles as we know them - im glad they did'nt have them

[@byron151227]

is he using Logic

[@CreeperSquid]

It looks nothing like FL Studio...

[@F1FREEK]

hes using cakewalk !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =DDDDDD

[@davidroot8]

its actually logic i think but you could be right

[@digirealm]

whats this? pro tools?

[@vampyros1]

I disagree; I think he did 'pop' because he liked it more. Nothing wrong with that, great pop music is as great as great classical music. It's all relative. George Martin, a classical enthusiast all those Beatle years would have parted with his member to have come up with 'Pet Sounds'; probably Paul too. I think 'Ram' is Paul's equal to 'Pet Sounds'. That's saying a lot----

[@corinneyaworski5274]

I guess I like him because he's really smooth. Always knows what to say. Cute, too. Even at 75. Great songwriter. But even though I think he's a good musician, don't think he's good enough to be a conductor of that magnitude.

[@ignacioclerici5341]

I think he is, but the problem is he didnt study

[@abubacar]

Wallace and grommit mouse pad!

[@NRGSave7]

Not that it makes a shred of difference if it's mac or pc, other than those who aren't rich waste money needlessly in hopes they too will become "a pro" like mccartney, who could probably write on a stretched fishing line and guitar pick. Mccartney knowing nothing about computers, ran into some mac fan who told him it's a must, which is of course has been the ongoing lie and joke in the industry for ages. Meanwhile, someone loads the same software on a pc with faster cpu for far less and voila!

[@KM-eb5yo]

That's arrogant. What if she just has a shitty program? And not everyone has the money to buy an orchestra of instruments. Just because someone prefers composing on paper doesn't mean they shouldn't write music.