The Beatles, Getting Better - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Analysis / Excerpts

[@eileenrich6449]

Love how you let the teacher in you take over and pull Vlad into the experience.😀

[@johndef5075]

The older I get the more surreal the Beatles seem. Too perfect❤

[@Jaxy451]

Love this song. It appears to be a genuine Lennon McCartney collaboration.

[@John_Locke_108]

The optimism of Paul, "it's getting better all the time", combined with John's pessimism, "It can't get much worse".

[@victorluiz2099]

I really love your take on Beatles music. Not only because you are a classical musician, but mainly because of your musical sensitivity. Lyrics, musical arrangements and all things that claim music. I really appreciate it so much. Young and very intuitive. Thanks.

[@BILLYMORGAN1971]

I used to be cruel to my husband, I forced to play the harp and he had no say. I know I was mean but I'm changing my scene and bought him a sitar the other day. It's getting better ll the time.....

[@jfziemba]

I thought Vlad was going to shout as he was leaving the harp, "I've got blisters on me fingers!"

[@lejoe48]

This piece has progressed in my appreciation over the years, and I now put it on the same level as Lucy in the Sky and other major favorites of mine. It is magical and lively.

[@PaulBrown-kg3qw]

You are now reaching the level of an exemplar, you understand, feel and explain with such clarity.

[@peterolbrisch8970]

This is a great song, one of their best.

[@richardfehlmann4593]

❤ I love this reaction. Although this song is certainly not a favourite of mine, it's very interesting to hear about the harmonic static in this song. So much fun to take Vlad along 😂 I love his T - Shirt 👌😍 This song is a part of the concert that this album represents. It plays a good link to hold the album together. I love the comparison with the course of a dinner. Nicely said. Well done 👍🏻😊 I'm looking forward to the next reaction 🤞😃

[@stevefaure415]

Wonderful! I appreciate the deep understanding of music you have along with the ability to express it in a way that is not strictly musical at all.

[@2trainsrunning]

So that's ostinato.. thanks again, Amy! Love the 'palate cleanser' analogy - - this album's a feast! Looking forward to dessert, and maybe a smoke afterwards.. Note, that buzz on the break is a tamboura (not a sitar) - used to great effect on Tomorrow Never Knows the year before, and on Within You Without You a little later in the Pepper program.

[@cesarprieto2983]

I've got to admit it's getting better!

[@SpuzzyLargo]

Bettah😊

[@cesarprieto2983]

@@SpuzzyLargo bettah... beeeettaaahhh

[@SpuzzyLargo]

@@cesarprieto2983 Getting so much bettah all the time!

[@stlmopoet]

I love this reaction! Even if I only hear snippets of the song, I know it by heart so it doesn’t matter. I can certainly listen to the song on its own!

[@garycameron8167]

In terms of the lyrics, the best - funniest - aspect is Paul singing "...a little better all the time," and John (of course) responding with "It couldn't get much worse."

[@menopausalmusician414]

My Favorite Group and My Favorite Channel Peace

[@Inverse_to_Chaos]

Even the simpler tracks on this album were clearly given greater production value than what the previous albums had. Once again, the harmonies scream at the audience over the relatively grounded components driving the harmonies. Well done, Vlad! I’ll be ready to hear more of your rehearsals in the future. 👍🏼

[@Deebhoy]

I think this is your best reaction 👍

[@edwardross7033]

Lots of groups have similar “harmonically static” pieces. Love’s Forver Changes incorporates some similar chord repetitions. The Clash’s Know your rights is the Getting Better intro riff for the whole song

[@jackmaddox4960]

Holy Cow, Vlad has the bluest eyes I think I've ever seen! From a purely aesthetic viewpoint, with those eyes and that hair, I gotta say he is an incredibly striking looking man... And it's good to have a face to put to the disembodied voice occasionally drifting in with advice or info!

[@joebloggs396]

Actually quite a popular song.

[@erickvermeulen9734]

The Beatles gave just one concert in the Netherlands, with Jimmy Nicol instead of Ringo Starr, on June 6th 1964, in Blokker, just north of Amsterdam.

[@floydshambles]

excellent sitar imitation

[@JohnLancaster-i2o]

This is the song they were recording when John accidentally took LSD in the studio!

[@katznkittens]

I much prefer the next one: Fixing a Hole.

[@saramaya3302]

I think the opening staccato guitars are supposed to kind of represent an evening news broadcast opening. Like a type writer thing .Letting us know the state of things for the Beatles at that moment.

[@michaelrosel1951]

I like your reaction videos. I admire your musicianship especially when you reproduce the music with your harp. You and some othre reaction performers fail to apreciate the electric guitar. The sharp bighting treble from the rythem guitar sounds so fine. It carries the song. The electric guitar be it leed break or simply the rythem guitar is the dominant force in rock music.

[@sophitsa79]

Aussies - wasn't there an ad back in the '80s or '90s that had this tune as a jingle? Does anyone remember what it was? I've got that horrible tip of my tongue feeling

[@ianeland2323]

I could be wrong, but maybe it was MBF or Medicare Private. Hence the "getting Better" hook. I could be miles away, but that thought just came into my head.

[@stormy8207]

John always gave the impression he was a precocious brat with a big ego. Brilliant though. My favourite song of theirs, Long and Winding Road.

[@seanmcmichael2551]

I don't know why, but I always saw TLAWR as paired with ATU (Across The Universe). A great game of Lennon vs McCartney. I've no idea if they motivated each other that way, but I still love to think that they helped complete each other('s songs).

[@yes_head]

Good analysis. Notice how the influence of Indian drone music has intruded into what is otherwise another bit of bouncy McCartney Brit-pop. "Getting Better" is a 'deep cut' and a bit filler-y by Beatles standards. It's not a song you might actively seek out, but it's also one you're not going to change the station for either. It serves the same function as "Good Day Sunshine". But even though it's got Paul's finger prints all over it, it's perhaps best known for John's droll lyrical contribution: "It can't get much worse." Re: that vocal harmony part, so many 70's bands owe the Beatles for that. Queen is probably at the top of the list.

[@scunner6828]

Who was that? Sound engineer or a passer-by?

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

What? No Elton John LSD?

[@stonehobson2487]

Don't even. The less they know the better.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

@@stonehobson2487 Why, you don't like it? Amy has reacted to other covers. It has a good story involving a bet and even Lennon liked it.

[@vonVile]

Lennon, who played guitar and did backing vocals, says Elton John's version is the one he wish he had done with The Beatles. It was truer to his vision.

[@Uetti]

Wasn't alternating long and short melodic sentences a fingerprint of Paul McCartney? You forgot to remember that 🙂

[@robintougas9697]

Can't get much worse as a response to Getting better.

[@kerrykoontz3299]

Honestly....two notes and youre talking again?

[@vonVile]

Amy, can't play Beatle songs without getting a copyright strike. You don't really need to hear the song if you know the song already.