Her Majesty- The Beatles (Guitar Cover)

From my full Abbey Road Medley cover:

Her Majesty was originally meant to be within the Abbey Road medley, right after Mean Mr. Mustard and before Polythene Pam. But it did not fit in a pleasing way, so they decided to remove the song from Abbey Road entirely

Tape operator John Kurlander was instructed to remove Her Majesty from the album, but policy at EMI stated that they should never destroy any recordings by the group. So he decided to place the short song at the very end of the album, after a long gap so that it would be understood that the song was separate from the rest of the album

When McCartney listened to the album mix, he loved the surprise effect after The End. And thus Her Majesty became one of the first examples of a hidden (or unlisted) song on an album. Another example of a happy accident in the Beatles studio world!

Because Mean Mr. Mustard and Polythene Pam became linked in the final medley, there was a final chord that was cut between the two. This ended up in front of Her Majesty

Additionally, the original medley sequencing had the final acoustic chord of Her Majesty cut out so that Polythene Pam would start on that chord. That's why on the final released Abbey Road, Her Majesty is cut before the final chord could ring out

For my cover, I included the Mean Mr. Mustard crash chord before Her Majesty. But I kept the final acoustic Her Majesty chord in so that you could hear how Paul finished the song

Paul recorded Her Majesty on July 2nd 1969, alone on his Martin D-28 acoustic guitar

Mean Mr. Mustard had John on his Epiphone Casino and George on his Fender Rosewood Telecaster. John was plugged into a Leslie speaker cabinet and George plugged into a Fender Twin Reverb amp

MY GEAR:
1969 Martin 00-18
Neumann TLM-103

_Mean Mr. Mustard_
2021 Epiphone Casino USA Royal Tan
2007 Fender American Hot Rod '52 Telecaster
1974 Fender Pro Reverb
1965 Fender Bassman
Strymon Lex
Neumann TLM-103

Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoyed all the songs from the medley
#thebeatles #abbeyroad #guitarcover

[JacobKMusics]

My grandmother loved Her Majesty. This goes out to her.

[larryogintz]

Thanks, Sam. It's a great little "ditty". Lots of fun watching you play it!

[BubbeParker]

I'll still never forget being at the pub and hearing The Queen died. We raised our glass with a "God save the Queen" and hummed this one out

[josephsimon]

Great stuff Sam always a pleasure to wake up to a pro playing the world's best band music ever. Thanks Sam

[Thelastsonofkrypton]

A tutorial on how to play this one would be great Sam, the acoustic has some really nice macca-isms.

[xe]

great cover again, sam! something about this song and songs like i will, blackbird, and some others make me feel some type of way i just cant describe 😂

[yurimilanchik]

Даже в таком коротком треке удалось передать замысел композитора : Весёлость, с некоторой долей иронии ... Отличная работа !

[thecoolcreativebuildchanne]

I always had trouble making this sound exactly the way Paul did it. Thanks alot for this, now I can play it proudly!😊👍🎸

[jacobthomas]

bravo for the panning of the stereo, my friend. well done 👏🏻

[johnniebellamy]

Just Watched A Hards Day Night & Just Think How There Music Changed In A Period Of 5 Years

[je]

Love it! I noticed you didn’t put this in the middle of the “Long One”.

[MattWinans]

Am I the only one that noticed the panning just like the original? LOL! Well done sir!

[GretschMan]

It's The End Of The Beatles
And John, Paul, Ringo, George bacame
solo musician


Wings?

[ralstonwithanr]

If you have time, I’d really love to see you cover “Soily” from the One Hand Clapping sessions!

[diegooo.]

I suggest a cover of Goodbye, the demo that Paul made for Mary Hopkins

[avYhz]

Sounds perfect! What was the thought behind including the last strum on the D?

[emmanuelgalan]

Please do living in the material world by George, the solo is killer

[MarianoBeatlero]

The guitar sounds so similar a song call "stop right there" from the Hollies

[coolcarsfan]

Hey man, would you consider doing a cover of Sunrise by The Who? It's a great acoustic piece by Townshend from the Sell Out era