11/02/2023
As impossible as it is to imagine, The Beatles (you’ve heard of them, right?) are releasing a new song today at 10am! The Beatles have been the soundtrack of my entire life as well as a staple of teaching repertoire throughout my career (No student goes without learning B7 with “I should have known better”). Someone saying “I LOVE The Beatles” was akin to saying “Hey, no matter what my otherwise entirely questionable taste in music might say about me, I do like GREAT music deep down and must be a decent sort overall.”
My mom, my cousin John, and my aunt all felt like VIP family members for their true love of The Beatles 😂. As a kid, I can remember begging my older cousin John to show me how to play Beatles songs on the guitar. I would remember observations he would make about their chords like you’d remember the wisdom of a guru! Anytime I was riding in the car with my mom, we could *always* agree on The Beatles… And they had so many songs, it was generally unlikely someone had heard *every* track (anthologies, solo works, etc.) — so if I’d found a real gem, I always would proudly offer it up to my mom “But have you ever heard THIS one??”
However this one turns out, I can’t count myself as anything but lucky to have spent a lifetime listening to all of this music. So many good memories, friendships, roadtrips, walks, and lessons would just be entirely diminished without this music — and when this new song drops, I will be 11 years old all over again trying to hash out the chords and wishing I could ask my mom what she thinks of it!
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