The Beatles Get Back Bass Cover Hofner 500, 1 62

Paul McCartney s driving bass on Get Back provides the perfect compliment to Ringo s hypnotic snare pattern, creating a groove that is among The Beatles best Starting the song with eighth notes on the roots of the chords, Paul locks in with George s off beat chord smacks and John s Chuck Berry style rhythm guitar. He begins to experiment more during the first guitar solo with open A string notes (0:39) and a bluesy minor third C note into the chorus (0:53). The second chorus introduces the use of hammerons (1:02), a technique that Paul would use frequently throughout the rest of the song. Billy Preston s Fender Rhodes keyboard solo is kicked off by Paul s Get Back Jo and octaves on the bass (1:11). In the third verse, Paul begins accenting the offbeat after Get Back (1:43), something the band would catch on with soon after (1:51) and repeat in the last verse. Notice the slick pulloff from the fifth fret of the A string to the open A at (2:12); pretty cool Paul then makes the offbeat accent dur