Rhythmically, the vocal sections are in tintal, a 16-beat cycle, rendered here as 4/4 time. You could easily adapt this arrangement to fingerstyle, or play it as a solo guitar piece. I use a flatpick and play open-string drones around the melody notes. (For space reasons, the last verse isn’t tabbed out, but the melody travels primarily up and down the second string, as in the instrumental.) In a few spots, such as measures 31–32 and 47–49, the guitar picks up melodic fills played by the string section. Play the melody initially on strings 5, 4, and 3, then up an octave on the final verse/bridge. Throughout Harrison’s track, the dilruba, an Indian bowed instrument, doubles the vocal, so that’s what the guitar does here. Pepper’s track is in C #, but the song was actually recorded in C and then sped up, so this arrangement is in the original performance key. To simulate that sound, I wound up tuning to C G D G B D with a partial capo on the top five strings at the fifth fret-giving me open-string pitches of C C G C E G, an open C tuning. Like the Indian traditions it’s based on, “Within You Without You” has no chord changes-the melody unfolds over a drone (roots and fifths played on the tambura). Pepper’s track, but it’s buried deep in the mix.) This arrangement is the result. (Harrison reportedly played guitar on the Sgt. While learning the tune, I began experimenting to see if I could bring this haunting and complex song to life on guitar.
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Years ago I’d studied Indian music-specifically tabla drumming-in California and in India, and singing “Within You Without You” with a full Indian ensemble and string quartet was an extraordinary experience.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, I had the golden opportunity to recreate George Harrison’s “Within You Without You” onstage.
I n 2017, as part of a 50th anniversary tribute to the Beatles’ Sgt. From the February 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY JEFFREY PEPPER RODGERS
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