I Want to Hold Your Hand
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The Beatles
Want to Learn How to Play Guitar? Learn to Play Easy Guitar Songs –Acoustic Lessons Here!
Runtime: 50:54 Teacher: Rob
- Am
- Bm
- Bm7
- B7
- C
- D
- Dm7
- Em
- G
Lesson Description
This guitar lesson has 9 chapters. The Performance shows you what we want to have you learn in the lesson. The Overview tells you what you need to know to impress people with Beatles Trivia, plus the chords you need to know. In the Intro Rob gives you a basic lesson on rhythmic awareness, drilling you on counting, pick-ups and accenting the “Up,” stroke which is an extremely important musicianship skill to learn. In the Verse chapter, Rob shows you the famous “Folk Strum” that will get you playing tons of other easy songs. Next comes the Bridge, where you learn how to play a new chord progression. In the chapter called the Ending, you'll see that it's not much more than a Chorus with an extra line tagged on at the end. The Slow Practice gets you putting it all together. It’s best not to do this chapter until you’ve had a chance to internalize the materials in the previous chapters. In the Bonus Chapter you learn that cool Beatles riff that comes up in the verses. In the Outtake you get to see Jenn and Rob rocking out on the song.
Song Information
I Want to Hold Your Hand
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| "I Want to Hold Your Hand" | |||||
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| Single by The Beatles | |||||
| B-side | "This Boy" (UK) "I Saw Her Standing There" (US) |
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| Released | 29 November 1963 (UK) 13 January 1964 (U.S.) |
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| Format | 7" | ||||
| Recorded | Abbey Road: 17 October 1963 |
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| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 2:24 | ||||
| Label | Parlophone R5084 (UK) Capitol Records 5112 (US) |
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| Writer(s) | Lennon/McCartney | ||||
| Producer | George Martin | ||||
| Certification | Gold (RIAA) | ||||
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"I Want to Hold Your Hand," by The Beatles, was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded in October 1963. Since their recordings had not been successful in the U.S., their manager, Brian Epstein, asked them to write a song especially for the American market. They did so, sitting side by side at the piano, each adding elements in response to the other, which was often their way of writing in those early days. The original song has no real lead singer, as Lennon and McCartney sing in harmony with each other.
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was released in Britain before it was heard in the U.S. Carroll James, deejay for WWDC, a radio station in Washington, D.C., requested a copy in advance from overseas at the request of a listener and aired it repeatedly . It became a major hit, and the American label, Capitol Records, after threatening to sue, decided to take advantage of the publicity and released the song two weeks early. Demand for the recording was so great that Capitol had to sub-contract Columbia Records and RCA to produce enough copies.
The "British Invasion" of America had been launched. Throughout 1964, only British artists were at the top of the American charts; including The Dave Clark Five, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Hollies and Herman's Hermits.
For the German market, the Beatles' record label, Parlophone, believed the song needed to be recorded in German. The group thought it would sell in English, but finally agreed, and recorded "Komm, gib mir deine Hand." It was a big hit, but today the English version is better known there than the one in German.
"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was the band's first #1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, where it remained for 7 weeks, staying on the charts for 15 weeks. In 1998, the song won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award. It made the list in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and was named one of the Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America, the National Endowment for the Arts and Scholastic Press. In 2004, it was ranked number 16 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was also ranked as #2 in Mojo's list of the 100 Records That Changed the World. The song is listed as #39 on Billboard's All Time Top 100, and is currently ranked as the 23rd best song of all time.
Other artists that covered "I Want to Hold Your Hand" include:
- Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops Orchestra (instrumental version, #55 in American charts)
- Petula Clark
- Moving Sidewalks (psychedelic version)
- Standells (in sitcom The Munsters
- Jennifer Cihi (Canada)
- Grant Green (jazz version)
- Sparks (Philadelphia Sound-style)
- Lakeside (R&B)
- Dollar (Britain)
- Devo's T.V. Carpio (film Across the Universe).
