The Beatles - Dear Prudence LESSON by Mike Pachelli

Here's a lesson on the guitar parts of John & George
on this rocker from the Beatles' White Album.

[bradpedellvids]

Mike, once again you transcended this gem of a song into an elucidating light to further reveal the Beatles’ greatness. Even though John conceived the song, each Beatle (sans Ringo as you revealed) contributed in their own powerful style to complete this masterpiece. What is also remarkable are your vocal background harmonies in your sound-alike. I’ll bet that tracking those the way you did may have been even more rigorous work than breaking down the guitar parts. Those harmonies are integral for rounding out this song and you sound perfect! Incredible how you do that! Thank you for a marvelous lesson and teaching about this song’s history. What a great way to start my morning experiencing your gift of the Beatles’ “Dear Prudence.”

[adriandonoghue]

Great job! The ending of this song is one of my all time favourite Beatle moments.

[craigparse]

You nailed it! That was one of the most ethereal songs that The Beatles did and one of my favorite "John" songs.

[wwlstep]

Much respect for the time it must have taken to unravel all the layers! Another stellar lesson.

[stephenhyder]

This song is more of a masterpiece than I have thought. You did a masterful job with it.

[dennisbell]

You're the man Mike, excellent cover of this FABulous song.You captured Lennon's vocals and passion right on as well.Overall, as usual, a very nicely done production.

[davemish]

Mike you are amazing! You are the only person I trust when learning Beatles songs!

[sapelesteve]

That was terrific as usual Mike! Another tune that clearly demonstrates the incredible musical genius of JL! Thanks again for keeping their music alive & well for all to appreciate! 👍👍👏👏

[keithhazelton]

Epic! Perhaps your best-ever Sound-Alike, you nailed this complex work of art, an all-time favorite.

[markbrennan]

Great lesson Mike. One of my favourite JOHN songs, in fact, one of my favourite songs of all time. Beautiful music and a very personal message. The picking pattern is, well, challenging but is a key element. I think it will take me more than 50, 000 times to learn it. Watching and listening to your masterful sound alike, I realised how towards the end of the song George’s lead answers JOHN‘s vocals, but somehow stays with the musical theme and builds to the ending. Simple and brilliant at the same time. Thank you for the work you do and your superb musicianship.

[terrellgruber]

George is insane! I heard Pul saying without Carl Perkins there wouldn't be Beatles. Great job Mike!!

[mardin]

I practice this song as an exercise in thumb independence. Donovan described teaching John how to Travis pick, and standard Travis picking would more likely have used a 6-4-5-4 thumb pattern (root, root, fifth, root) on a dropped D chord. This won't sound right, because John, being John, used a 5-4-6-4 pattern (fifth, root, root, root), as Mike demonstrates. And John does not deviate from that pattern for the whole song, which imparts that strong droning feeling. Brilliant.

Like 'Julia, ' I find this song much easier to play on an electric set to a clean tone.

Thanks for the lesson, Mike.

[stephenstrang]

HE FINALLY DID IT. The Legend is UNSTOPPABLE!

[jeremymoore]

I’m not hugely interested in trying to replicate the Beatles tracks even where my skill level might allow me to play bits of them. However, I always find the dissection and analysis of the guitar parts fascinating and inspiring. I really enjoy the soundalike tracks at the end too.

[SergejRod]

How many efforts to found out and show all layers of the song that sounds so easy and simple! My great respect!

[andrewpappas]

I've been wanting a lesson for this song for a long time so I was definitely happy to see this come up, it's always been one of my favourite Beatles songs as well as one to play on bass (which is still one of Paul's best). It was definitely cool to hear that there were multiple overdubbed guitar parts from John, I always thought it was just the one fingerpicked acoustic part from him alongside George's lead parts so that was fun to learn. I also would've loved to have seen a section for Paul's bass part (which is one of his best and most fun parts to play) since that's another great part of the song but knocking it out of the park as always, Mike, and a fun video to watch a few days after my 25th birthday (which was how old George would've been during the White Album sessions lol)

[carldutro]

what a FANTASTIC lesson and a FANTASTIC 😃

[davebowman]

Done watching.

Mike.. my day to day quality of life just jumped off the scale!

I loathe "GOAT"s, "the best", and the Paul v/s John stupidities when they surface. But I will say this here and now: Prudence is remarkable in so many ways. The picking'n'drone stuff, the lyrics, the vocals (and your take on that is great!), the arrangement (very dynamic, escalating and then mellowing down again), Pauls bass track and Georges fuzzy SG.. Everything!

As close to a perfectly written, arranged and recorded song as there ever can be. No click track (I assume), no auto-tune, no compression (or at least it's subtle). Just really good musicman-ship.

I really like your comment on what could have been if Ringo had been on it. (And smiled when you tapped your foot rather than bringing in Metronome Starkey since Ringo isn't on the track).

Personally I imagine there's no heaven 😉. But if there is, John just might sit there and give you a nod and one of his smirky smiles. And you would deserve it!

[ronrago]

Dear Prudence is one of those special songs that to me sounds like at any second its just going to explode. Its amazing how the picking stays so subtle but makes me feel like it wants to bust out bad. I absolutely love this song. Your performance is mind blowing. Thank you all your hard work to help us!

[raydelavega]

Hey Mike, as a Fan of The Beatles since 1963, 72 now. You've put some Amazing Videos on Showing How They Put their Music Together, Etc. My Wife Loves the channel!!! Dear Prudence Rocks!!! 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍