Black Bird - The Beatles - Arranged by Tony Rowden

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"Blackbird" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album").
It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon-McCartney, and performed as a solo piece by McCartney.
When discussing the song, McCartney has said that the lyrics were inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, and by racial tension in the Southern United States.
McCartney explained that the guitar accompaniment for "Blackbird" was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's Bourrée in E minor, a well-known lute piece, often played on the classical guitar.
As teenagers, he and George Harrison tried to learn Bourrée as a "show off" piece.
The Bourrée is distinguished by melody and bass notes played simultaneously on the upper and lower strings.
Black Bird is one of the songs novice guitar players often try to learn, as it's one of the most famous finger-style tunes.
McCartney adapted a segment of the Bourrée (reharmonised into the original's relative major key of G) as the opening of "Blackbird", and carried the musical idea throughout the song.
It is a solo performance with McCartney playing a Martin D-28 acoustic guitar.
Black Bird is one of about 12 Beatles songs that McCartney often played in his live shows throughout his career.
It lends itself to live performance because it is rather compact (it runs just 2:18) and can be played with just a guitar.
Apart from the blackbird, only three sounds were recorded: McCartney's voice, his guitar, and a tapping that keeps time on the left channel.
In 2018, McCartney further elaborated on the song's meaning, explaining that "blackbird" should be interpreted as "black girl", in the context of the civil rights troubles in southern 1960s US.
Paul McCartney wrote this song about the civil rights struggle for African Americans after reading about race riots in the US.
He penned it in his kitchen in Scotland not long after an incident in Little Rock when the federal courts forced the racial desegregation of the Arkansas capital's school system.
"I was sitting around with my acoustic guitar and I'd heard about the civil rights troubles that were happening in the '60s in Alabama, Mississippi, Little Rock in particular,".
"I just thought it would be really good if I could write something that if it ever reached any of the people going through those problems, it might give them a little bit of hope. So, I wrote 'Blackbird.'"
McCartney did not have ornithological intentions when he wrote this song. In England, "bird" is a term meaning "girl," so the song is a message to a black girl, telling her it's her time to fly.
GEAR USED :
Guitar : Fender FC-20 1982 Classical Guitar
Guitar String: D'addario XT high tension nylon string (XTC46)
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T6i
Microphone: MOVO VXR10 Universal Cardioid Microphone
Microphone Stand: ATLAS IED Microphone Stand PB15EB
Guitar Stand: OnStage XCG4 Black Tripod Single Guitar Stand
Guitar Tuning: Standard Tuning
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