Did John Lennon INTENTIONALLY Sabotage The Beatles With His Bass Playing?

►► FREE: Get the John Lennon tabs and notation, plus the bass-less practice tracks for the song PLUS the tabs where the bass line has been ‘improved’ (hopefully) → https://becomeabassist.com/did-john-lennon-sabotage-the-beatles-with-this-bass-line

Of all the bass lines on all the Beatles records, there’s one that’s VERY contentious.

Some die-hard Beatles fans really don’t like it.

In fact, some people absolutely HATE it!

At the time, some critics thought it was SO bad, they called it *musical sabotage*.

And the funny thing is - it wasn’t even Paul McCartney playing bass on this particular song.

It was John Lennon.

So today, I want to kick of an entire Beatles SEASON by looking at the most contentious Beatles bass line and figuring out:

►► *Why* this bass line gets so much hate
►► Whether it *deserves* the hate it gets
►► What we can do to ‘fix’ the bass line

And of course, we’ll try to figure out if John was actually trying to sabotage the Beatles with his bass playing.

After you’ve checked it out, tell me what you think in the comments.

Was John out of line to play the way he did on that song?

Do you think he deliberately undermined the Beatles with his bass playing?

Or do you think people just blew it way out of proportion?

I’ll be in the comments of the video, reading and responding, so I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Good luck with the lesson and happy playing!

Cheers,

Luke

P.S. If you want the Lennon tabs, the ‘improved’ tabs (hopefully) that I made, plus the bass-less backing track, just head to this page:

https://becomeabassist.com/did-john-lennon-sabotage-the-beatles-with-this-bass-line

Fill out the form there and I’ll send you everything for free.

[Chapters]

0:00 Did John Lennon Sabotage The Beatles INTENTIONALLY?
0:32 Why is this bass line so bad?
2:11 Issue #1: Wrong Notes
3:13 Issue #2: Notes Out Of Time
3:39 Issue #3: Inconsistent Note LENGTHS
4:28 Issue #4: Strange Choices
5:22 Disclaimer
5:33 Let’s Fix This Thing!
8:40 The Verdict: Did Lennon INTENTIONALLY Sabotage?

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