Chords for TOP 10 BEATLES RIFFS RANKED

Hey everybody, I'm Rick Beato.
And Pat Ryan.
Pat is one of my oldest friends.
We've known each other for 39 years.
He's in town visiting, so I thought, well, why don't we do this video together?
And Pat is a huge Beatles fan, as I am.
Today, we're gonna count down the top 10
Beatles riffs ranked.
Unlike the Zeppelin and the ACDC one, where I talked about whether the riff is iconic, meaning from a big song, and
whether it's fun to [G] play, those are the two things that I use to judge them.
We're gonna add a [F] different criteria here, because the Beatles have so many songs that are
great, that have great riffs or great parts, and are fun to play.
But what are we gonna do, Pat?
Well, like a [N] level of sophistication.
Whether the song is really breaking new ground with what it does, because the Beatles did that.
A lot of surprises.
A lot of surprises.
Good times.
_ Coming in at number 10 is a song off the Revolver record, which happens to be my favorite Beatles record.
This was kind of the first psychedelic record.
And this particular one has one of the trickiest riffs to play,
because it's actually a two-part [E] harmony.
Check it out. _ _ _
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[C#m] _ _ _ Coming in at number 9 is a song off the White Album.
This one is actually trickier to play than it looks.
I went back,
I thought I knew how to play it right, and of course I played it all wrong.
I'm probably still playing it slightly wrong.
But it's kind of awkward.
It's a finger-picking song.
Here it is.
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_ _ Song number 8 is based on a drawing by Julian Lennon.
John wrote this after seeing this, and it's a real
example of a psychedelic song.
It's probably one of their most psychedelic songs, and it has a very unusual
chord pattern.
[E] Here it is. _
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Song number [D#] 7 is one [D#] of the most beautiful Beatles songs.
It's got a great, great lyric, and the
opening riff is just
perfect.
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_ _ Song number 6 [N] is one of my favorite riffs to play.
As a matter of fact, when I did my Mixolydian video,
I used this as an example, and then had the video demonetized just by playing the riff.
So this is probably going to happen with this one, too.
Check [E] it out. _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ Coming in at number 5, [D] this tune is really one of the most sophisticated Beatles tunes, especially the harmony parts.
It's off Abbey Road, and I think you [C#m] know what it is.
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_ [C#m] _ _ Song number 4 [N] is probably the song that you would think
would be the first thing when you're thinking of Beatles riffs.
This particular tune was actually a double A side
that was released in
1965, with the other A side, the other single, was We Can Work It Out.
Here it is.
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_ [E] _ _ _ Coming in at number 3, this tune [N] is definitely done on electric, because this is one of the best uses of distortion by the Beatles.
We decided to play it with a capo, because it just didn't have the power playing the way it's actually played, and it actually sounds
kind of cool with a capo.
Check it [G] out.
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_ Song number 2, at the [C] beginning, features one of the earliest
uses of [D#] feedback, but the riff, to me, was the beginning of the psychedelic Beatles movement,
and this one came out in 1964.
Check it out.
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Coming in at number [G#] 1, for what we [B] think is the greatest Beatles riff ever,
it's actually written by George Harrison, [D] and it's off Abbey [A] Road. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ So that's our [N] list.
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_ Pat, what do you think?
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