The Beatles' Secrets That Dominic Miller Uncovered

Ladies and gentlemen, back by popular demand, Dominic Miller. >> Dominic, what is this that I'm holding here? >> That's a book of the Beatles. Solo guitar arrangements for Beatles songs.

Uh I just needed something to do while I was on the road cuz I'm on the road all the time. >> Mhm. >> And what do I do during the day? I've got to do something.

It's like the last book I did. It's like, >> you know, some people go to museums or they go hiking and stuff. I like to sit in my hotel room and just noodle with the guitar. So, I thought I want to do because I've been playing a lot of classical pieces >> forever.

>> And I thought I want to do pieces that are just a little bit less kind of uh academic than that. I want to do tunes that I really like. So I I chose for some reason to attack my favorite Beatles songs and make them for solo guitar in the way that a classical guitarist would do. >> Full disclosure here, you would send me things uh your you playing on video arrangements and things like that.

Give your philosophy. We talked about this in the last time we got together. Your philosophy of what makes a complete arrangement. >> Well, >> what notes of the chord for example?

Well, I mean the melody. >> You need the melody and then you the baseline. >> The melody and the baseline are the two most important things. Yeah.

And then whatever is in between, you just got to figure out that's the fun for me. >> Yeah. >> Is figuring out how little can I say to get the message across. >> Uh you know um like for instance the song that I really like is Blackbird.

>> But everyone plays Blackbird like [music] >> [music] >> I love that. Probably the best riff that was ever written. That's their stayway, >> isn't it? >> Yes, [laughter] it's a stairway.

>> And it takes a little bit of nerve to to play Blackbird anyway. It's like, oh, you're doing like Stay Away to Heaven. But I thought with that one, what I wanted to do is get the melody, which is that's the melody. So, how do I do that?

So, that's the fun for me ...