How to play Paperback Writer - The Beatles

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Primarily written by Paul McCartney and released in 1966, "Paperback Writer" was not only the only No.1 hit for The Beatles that year, but also proved to be a musical gem that has stood the test of time.

In this quick little video guitar lesson I will show you how to play Paperback Writer in just a few minutes.

I think the opening riff, which is revisited many times throughout the song, is one of the coolest guitar riffs The Beatles ever wrote. You simply can't get more catchy than that riff!

I am using a slightly distorted guitar tone, in standard tuning. The key to this main riff is to do a barre with your first finger across strings 4-6 on the 3rd fret.

You should let the notes of the riff ring together as much as possible. Pay special attention to the hammer-ons in the riff. In the first hammer-on, the timing of the two notes is as an 8th note just like the other notes of the riff. In the second hammer-on, the first note is a grace note, meaning that it is barely heard before the hammer-on. If you are having trouble understanding this don't worry, I will explain it in the video lesson more easily.

Also, be sure to take note of the slight variation of this riff played just before the last chorus. It is just a very small difference from the main riff, but I put it in the lesson for completeness sake. :)

So besides the main riff, we have the chords used during the verse. Pretty simple stuff here, since we stay put on a G major chord for most of the time.

The only difficulty that may arise here is with the large stretch with your little finger to reach the 7th fret. This classic Chuck Berry move helps give the riff a more driving feel, but does require quite a big reach on the guitar. If you can't get this under your fingers, don't worry about it too much. Simply strum the normal G major barre chord here and it will sound fine without that little Chuck Berry move.

We eventually leave the G major chord briefly and take that chord shape up to the 8th fret making it a C major chord.

When they are playing the C chord, they are kind of randomly shifting between a C major and a C7 chord. I will demonstrate how to easily do it in the video lesson.

So once again we have a great classic Beatles tune here that will take most players only a few minutes to learn, but will provide a lifetime of fun! Pretty good deal I think.. :)

Carl...

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hey guys it's called Brown guitar
lessons 365.com today we got another
Beatles song and we'll take a look at
paperback rider is going to be a really
quick ones is a pretty two chords and I
cool the riff and route
so let's check out here in standard
tuning we're going to start here at the
3rd fret and just hold your first finger
across the 3rd fret on the a in the low
E string
all right it's cool to let them bring
out and stuff ring together so you're
going to pick the LOI first
then the 5th string
and you get a hammer on to the fifth
fret on the a
then I'm gonna pick the fifth fret on
the D string
I kind of forms a full power cord there
right now you're gonna go back down to
the low E
and you're going to pick up the little
finger so you can have the 3rd fret on
the D string
that bar is going across those three
strings
right now back to the low E
yeah
and
back to the now the fifth fret i miss
our 5th string 3rd fret
for this
now back to the low E - so you keep
going back to snow between each little
thing
and you can do a quick hammer on this
time 325
and then why is that's ringing
the third fret on the D string so we
have this all together
sort of
now when you play this at the very right
before the very last chorus
he has a slight variation on it I think
he doesn't one more time within the song
- so just listen up with this part
it sounds like this
yeah
alright so basically he just kind of
held in that 3rd fret a little bit there
so at the very end
you're just picking that her friend
again
hammering on three to five
without going to that top nope
and again
all right so it's a little bit more
simplified version of it all right
other than that we have the verse which
is just
kind of a chuck berry rhythm of the g
major bar chord here to 3rd fret
yeah
and then you can grab the 7th fret there
on the a string
then back
then take that court up to the 8th fret
C only recording the song or it's a C
chord we do kind of go it was keeping
his feet
and then he'll add it as a
demand a dominant 7th chords by picking
up your little finger there
so the note on the LA threat can bring
out on that day
you never hang out on the sea very long
right back down
all right and that's about it so just
keep repeating that and follow the song
and it's two minutes of pop this
all right i'll see you guys again soon
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