Early Beatles Super Pack

Early Beatles Super Pack

What's included

  • All tab
  • Chords
  • Chart
  • Guitar pro files

$47.98

Full Lifetime Access to this package


The Early Beatles Super Pack includes both Early Beatles Singles 10-Packs along with the Help and Rubber Soul 5-Packs. These 30 lessons are available at approximately 75% off the single lesson prices.

Lessons

  • Lesson 1: Thank You Girl - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    Thank You Girl was slated to be The Beatles’ third single until they quickly came up with From Me To You, relegating this cool tune to being a B-side.

    There really is no second tier sound to this song, which is very fun to play. It starts off with a blues shuffle riff, which can continue as a second guitar part throughout the song. Most of the chord changes happen every two beats, making it important to look for common fingers on consecutive chords.

  • Lesson 2: Love Me Do - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    The first hit single for The Beatles, Love Me Do, is about as basic as a song can get- three chords, two sections, two sets of lyrics, and simple strumming.

    All it took was a harmonica and a vocal hook for everyone to bite. This lesson goes over the progression and arrangement, but also shows how to incorporate the harmonica solos into the strumming.

  • Lesson 3: Another Girl

    Another Girl was one of Paul McCartney's songs that was used in The Beatles movie Help, and featured on the album in 1965. The song is a simple set of short parts with a few easy guitar parts. This short lesson goes over George's acoustic part using open chords and John's electric part using barre chords, hitting accents on the back beats (beats 2 and 4).

  • Lesson 4: It's Only Love - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    One of John Lennon’s least favorite songs. It’s Only Love has some great qualities I think he overlooked. It is from their 1965 album Help and included multiple guitar parts.

    In this lesson we combine some of George’s lead fills with the strumming, which is pretty fast a a little syncopated, as well as look at two separate rhythm guitar parts. There is a capo/transposing challenge in there as well.

  • Lesson 5: You're Gonna Lose That Girl

    In 1965 The Beatles embarked on their second movie, Help. It was a fun romp with a spy-spoof theme. The album included John Lennon's You're Gonna Lose That Girl, which was largely overlooked by critics, and even the band themselves. It actually shows the growing maturity the boys were experiencing as songwriters with its short sections and unusual modulations.

    This lesson goes over the chords, in the keys of E, G and even a little in C, and works on percussive strumming– the techniques to mute the strings on beats 2 and 4. Barre chords are a necessity here, as is almost always the case when playing in the key of E Major.

  • Lesson 6: It Won’t Be Long - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    The Beatles second UK release kicked off with a rocking tune, It Won’t Be Long. This is one of their earliest songs and has a bunch of the elements that demonstrate how they changed the musical landscape.

    It has chords that should not go together, unbalanced phrases, a major scale run with a bluesy twist, a chromatic descent of dissonant chords, and a jazzy little tag at the end.

    The lesson covers all that with a lot of variations on how to play many of the chords.

  • Lesson 7: What You're Doing

    By the end of 1964 The Beatles released their fourth album, and all just in 2 years, Beatles For Sale. Many of the songs were considered fillers but all of them included some interesting licks and progressions, along with great arrangements, compelling vocals harmonies, and tasty guitar leads.

    What You’re Doing is a good example of a song that seems like filler but still has some things worth learning and working on. The lesson goes over the main lick and progression but also goes into the short solo George played on a 12-string, as well as a few different ways of tackling the intro.

  • Lesson 8: Here, There And Everywhere - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    In 1966 The Beatles recorded and released Revolver, an album that really took their studio skills to another level. Here, There And Everywhere is a Paul McCartney song that remained stripped down to a basic guitar accompanying a beautiful melody.

    The song switches between the keys of G Major and G Minor (Bb Major), and uses quite a few barre chords. The strumming is mostly a modified arpeggio, using two bass notes before an accented downstroke. We also talk a bit about George’s short lead fills.

  • Lesson 9: Girl - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    From The Beatles 1965 album Rubber Soul, Girl is a John Lennon composition that may have been his answer to Paul’s Michelle. It is played with a capo way up the neck, in the guitar-friendly key of E Minor, although we also have G Major and A Minor represented.

    The strumming is done with a soft swing. The lesson also looks at incorporating George’s single note lines into the strumming.

  • Lesson 10: Wait

    The Beatles 1965 album was loaded with classic tunes of theirs. Most people would not consider Wait as one of them. This was a McCartney tune that they did not spend much time on, although it had been considered for inclusion on Help, but it does have some interesting things for guitar players.

    George Harrison mostly played 2-note chords while Paul filled in the roots on the bass. This lesson combines those into a hybrid picking style using the pick along with 2 fingers to grab the chords. This is a great song to learn this technique if you have thought about getting into it.

     

  • Lesson 11: If I Needed Someone - The Beatles – Guitar Lesson

    If I Needed Someone is an early George Harrison song, released in 1965 on The Beatles album Rubber Soul. It shows some of his developing interest in Indian music, using a droning bass note underneath a mixolydian melody. It is played with a capo at the seventh fret, moving the ‘D’ shape chord into the key of A.

    The song comes of of a little noodling around the ‘D’ shape, something that produced Here Comes The Sun a few years later. It also featured George’s Rickenbacker 12-string and borrowed a bit from The Byrd’s version of The Bells Of Rhymney.

    The lesson includes a couple different approaches to picking technique, including alternating, hybrid, and finger picking, as well as a look at John Lennon’s second guitar part, played without a capo.

  • Lesson 12: Please Please Me - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    As a follow-up to their first single, Love Me Do, The Beatles went into the studio to record Please Please Me, although George Martin still did not have faith in their songwriting abilities.

    They had reworked it, come up with some great hooks, vocals, and energy, and the rest is history. Please Please Me became their first number one hit within weeks of its release in early 1963, at least in the UK.

    This lesson strums through the chord progression in a couple different ways and also looks at incorporating the lead into the strumming.

  • Lesson 13: Ask Me Why - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    Ask Me Why is mostly a John Lennon tune that was the B-side of their second single, Ask Me Why. The progression uses quite a few chords, most from the key of E, many chords from nearby keys, and an augmented chord to really make things interesting.

    The strumming is very basic, but most of the chords are barre chords, so you need to be comfortable with the 'E' and 'A' families to play this easily. The lesson also briefly covers how to incorporate the opening bass notes with George's lead-in chords to complete the piece.

  • Lesson 14: From Me To You - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    After the Beatles success with their first two singles, originals Love Me Do and Please Please Me, they were inspired to churn out a pile of their own tunes. From Me To You was written very quickly and recorded within a week to be their third single and it shot to #1 a week later.

    At this point there was no looking back at doing covers. The progression includes some signature Beatles’ sounds, namely the use of augmented chords. This lesson also incorporates George’s lead fills using parallel octaves into the accompaniment to create a very interesting, and challenging arrangement.

  • Lesson 15: She Loves You - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    After some big success in the UK with their first three singles, The Beatles finally broke through into the American market with their next few singles, prompting Capitol Records to change their tune and release their albums.

    She Loves You was one of these breakthrough hits, which also happens to be really fun to play. It shows some of their non-traditional uses of chord progressions, with a few cool licks of George’s thrown in for good measure. This lesson covers the rhythm guitar parts along with most of George’s additions.

  • Lesson 16: Till There Was You by The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    Till There Was You was a staple of the Beatles’ early performances, and their recording of it on With The Beatles certainly ramped up its popularity.

    This lesson goes into a few different ways to play the chords and progression, as well as a look at George’s solo parts.

  • Lesson 17: I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    This one has it all– driving power chords, syncopated changes, great harmonies and vocal pyrotechnics, different textures in different sections, and even handclaps to up the fun quotient. I Want To Hold Your Hand is one of the early songs that really showed what the Fab Four had to offer, and the future was no disappointment.

    This lesson covers just about everything the guitars do, with particular attention to getting just the right drive in each part. Barre chords, power chords, and the basic rock riff are all used here, along with some standard strumming of open chords.

  • Lesson 18: This Boy - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    This beautiful Lennon/McCartney ballad starts with a chord progression that is almost cliché from the 50s, adds some three-part vocal harmonies and simple guitar parts, creating a typical Beatlesque take on a familiar sound.

    This lesson is done in our “Work It Out” style, starting off with just listening to the chords and trying to figure it out for yourself so hold off on printing out the chart.

    We also go over transposing progressions to various keys and trying to think by number rather than absolute chord. There is also a short segment on a second guitar part, as heard on the original recording.

  • Lesson 19: P. S. I Love You - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    P. S. I Love You was the B-side to The Beatles first single, P. S. I Love You, released in the UK in early October, 1962. It already shows Lennon and McCartney’s “outside the box” approach to chord progression and harmony, using some chords that most songwriters would not in the key of D.

    The two songs from this single later appeared on the album Please Please Me, something George Martin stopped doing shortly afterward, leading to the CD release of Past Masters Volumes I & II, which contained most of the singles.

    This lesson just covers the chord progressions to the three parts. The strumming is very basic but good command of barre chords is necessary to play through P. S. I Love You.

  • Lesson 20: I’ll Get You - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    The B-side to She Loves You, I’ll Get You borrows from some of the themes on that A-side (“oh yeah”), but tones it down into a beautiful, lilting melody. It is played in the key of D, using mostly open chords, Bm being the lone exception, using a basic, rock, strumming pattern.

    A good song for beginners working on chord changes but I’ll Get You also will present a chance for intermediate players to hone those same changing skills.

  • Lesson 21: Can’t Buy Me Love - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    Can’t Buy Me Love is a modified 12-bar blues tune that took on new life when George Martin suggested they rearrange the parts and start with the chorus.

    George Harrison added a somewhat Carl Perkins-like solo that he really improvised every time. This lesson goes over lead ideas as well as John’s rhythm part.

  • Lesson 22: She’s A Woman - The Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    She’s A Woman is a brilliant example of using a 12-bar-blues form as the foundation for a great song. Paul probably wrote it in a few minutes, on the way to the studio according to his recollection, and they recorded it in a day, probably the same day. The rhythm guitar just plays through a set of barre chords in the key of A, accenting the back beats, 2 & 4. We also take a short looks at George’s solo. The song can be found on Past Masters Volume One.

  • Lesson 23: You’re Gonna Lose That Girl - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    You’re Gonna Lose That Girl might be one of the most underrated Beatles songs out there. It may have even been considered filler for their 1965 movie Help. To the contrary, it is one of their most interesting progressions using multiple keys and modulations.

    The lesson includes a breakdown of the progression, along with a chord not noted on any charts I have ever seen, as well as a short look at George’s simple, but tasty lead.

  • Lesson 24: All My Loving - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    All My Loving is a great example of many of the ways The Beatles redefined rock and roll, setting the bar out of reach of almost all creative musicians of the time, and for generations to come.

    It had an innovative chord progression with complex counter guitar rhythms, a soaring melody with tight harmony and backing vocals, a short but unforgettable lead guitar break, and catchy lyrics, all wrapped up in just over two minutes.

    The song is played in the key of E, using many barre chords, including some outside the common ‘E’ and ‘A ‘ families, and John Lennon’s guitar part will be quite a challenge for every guitar player.

    The lesson includes both guitar parts, and considers ways of simplifying it a bit, as well as a look at George’s lead using the hybrid picking technique.

  • Lesson 25: I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    I Saw Her Standing There is an early rocker from Paul McCartney and John Lennon, kicking off The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me. It uses some standard blues chords but usually in 8-measure phrases rather than 12-bar form. Like most of their songs, it also includes some jazzy twists and turns.

    The lesson covers a basic way of strumming through the rhythm parts, a more complicated version based on Paul’s bass line, and some tips on George’s lead parts, which were more improvised than composed.

  • Lesson 26: Do You Want To Know A Secret - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    Do You Want To Know A Secret is one of two songs George sang on The Beatles’ debut album, Please Please Me. It featured a jazzy, descending chromatic passing chord, and a few nice embellishments from George’s guitar as well.

    It is in the key of E, meaning there are quite a few barre chords, and some quick changes. The lesson also covers an easy way to play the intro instrumentally.

  • Lesson 27: I Should Have Known Better - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    Although not one of The Beatles’ best from the lyrics angle, I Should Have Known Better is a very fun-to-play strumming song. It is from A Hard Day’s Night and featured a Bob Dylan-esque harmonica intro, which translates very well to the guitar.

    Other than that it just uses some open chords and simple strumming patterns. The lesson is done as an ear-training exercise so be sure to watch the first segment before looking at the chart or tab. There is also a short look at George’s solo, which simple followed the melody.

  • Lesson 28: If I Fell - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    It’s been quite a while since we looked at a Beatles song, way too long. If I Fell is one of John Lennon’s earliest “serious” ballads, although Paul McCartney’s influence and contributions are easily seen.

    John was more comfortable as a rocker but this open the doors to In My Life, among others. It was part of their movie A Hard Day’s Night, and album as well.

    The lesson just goes over the chord progression with some barre chord theory and technical tips included.

  • Lesson 29: Things We Said Today - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    Things We Said Today is a Paul McCartney song that really exemplifies many of the reasons The Beatles have to be considered one of the greatest bands/songwriters/influences of all time. It uses chord sequences and combinations unheard of at the time, syncopated rhythm guitar strumming along with sparse and simple lead punctuations, well-crafted lyrics, and a memorable melody with clever harmony. This lesson covers the chord progression and strumming patterns, as well as the sixteenth-note bounce that starts it off. There are a few barre chords and there is a segment on George’s part where he plays three string triad shapes up the neck.

  • Lesson 30: Eight Days A Week - Beatles - Guitar Lesson

    With a title taken from one of Ringo’s malapropisms, Eight Days A Week, from The Beatles fourth album Beatles For Sale, was set to be released as a single in the U.K. until John came up with I Feel Fine, which was considered a better fit and bound to be a big hit.

    Eight Days A Week features an interesting chord progression and the lesson includes a Listen segment for the student to try to figure it out. We also take a look at the intro and strumming triplets.