Yesterday (Remastered 2009)
Why Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange recommends it
Music Stack Exchange answerers link it as the reference recording when discussing the song's form, its chord notation, and its arrangement.
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What it is
The remastered 2009 studio recording of The Beatles' "Yesterday" from the 1965 album Help!, a roughly two-minute song written by Paul McCartney with a string quartet arrangement by George Martin. This is the auto-generated Topic upload from Universal Music Group.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Yesterday (song).
What people said
Cites Tetsujin · 2020-05 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Can an original composition be an arrangement?”
I suppose it depends on how far you stretch the definition of 'arrangement'. If I were to write a brand new song & sing it to you without any accompaniment, that could qualify as having been 'arranged for solo voice'. Let's take the simple yet rather beautiful Yesterday , technically by The Beatles, but really written & performed by Paul McCartney… with string arrangement by George Martin The 'song' as such is by Paul, arranged for solo voice & acoustic guitar. When he first took it to the studio, that's all it was. By the time they left, however, it included 2 unison voices in some parts, & a simple yet very effective string quartet arrangement. If someone were [gods forbid] to make a heavy
Cites piiperi Reinstate Monica · 2020-07 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Why is this chord notated as an Emin7 when it has no Es in it?”
There's nothing wrong with the notation, if you see it as instructions for players , instead of an analytical description of all of the pitches heard in the song. [LINK] Even if you look at this as a transcription of the original recording, it's not far off. (well this is a "remastered" version, but I guess the remastering didn't change the notes that were played) The part in question is at 0:39. If you listen to the right side with headphones, you'll hear only the vocal and the guitar, which is clearly playing an E bass note . If you listen to the left side with headphones, you'll hear only the vocal and the strings, which are clearly playing an A bass note . Out of these two, the guitar's
Cites Aaron · 2023-06 · Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange · on “Yesterday from the beatles structure and form. 8 bar verse or 7 bar verse”
"Yesterday", as recorded on the album Help , has the form: Intro: 2 bars Verse 1: 7 bars Verse 2: 7 bars Chorus: 8 bars Verse 3: 7 bars Chorus: 8 bars Verse 3: 7 bars Outro: 2 bars Being a "perfect song" has little to do with the specific number of measures involved and a lot to do with all of the other musical aspects: melody, harmony, rhythm, and how those three fit together, lyrics, and how the lyrics are complemented by the melody, harmony, and rhythm, instrumentation, the quality of the performers, the recording quality, etc., etc., etc. In a Classical view toward art, "balance" is an essential value, and in music — particularly the era known as the Classical era — numerical balance was