"Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted
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"Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted
Hey, guys!
Demixing technology has come such a long way and so many nice friends at the forum have been doing the most amazing jobs, I thought maybe someone would feel intrigued enough to make this big favor to the Brazilian Beatles fans community...
As you may have heard, at 5´37" into "Hey Jude", Paul says what to us Portuguese native speakers sounds like "Pega o cavaquinho". Cavaquinho is a very typical Brazilian instrument, somewhat similar to ukelele, but with steel strings, commonly used in Brazilian popular music such as samba and chorinho (which, by the way, I recommend).
It´s been said that what Paul really says is "The pain won´t come back, Jude". But I can´t hear that at all. All I can hear is the awful "Pega o cavaquinho" line, which of course is totally out of context. You know when you notice some detail, then you can never listen to a song the same way again? That´s the case.
I thought maybe someone would feel like enhacing the "The pain won´t come back, Jude" line, so that it would be more audible to non-native English speakers. I love "Hey Jude", but this is something that gets in the way everytime I listen to it. I thought if I can get to the actual words maybe I can exorcise it. At the very least is a curious oddity.
Thank you very much!
Demixing technology has come such a long way and so many nice friends at the forum have been doing the most amazing jobs, I thought maybe someone would feel intrigued enough to make this big favor to the Brazilian Beatles fans community...
As you may have heard, at 5´37" into "Hey Jude", Paul says what to us Portuguese native speakers sounds like "Pega o cavaquinho". Cavaquinho is a very typical Brazilian instrument, somewhat similar to ukelele, but with steel strings, commonly used in Brazilian popular music such as samba and chorinho (which, by the way, I recommend).
It´s been said that what Paul really says is "The pain won´t come back, Jude". But I can´t hear that at all. All I can hear is the awful "Pega o cavaquinho" line, which of course is totally out of context. You know when you notice some detail, then you can never listen to a song the same way again? That´s the case.
I thought maybe someone would feel like enhacing the "The pain won´t come back, Jude" line, so that it would be more audible to non-native English speakers. I love "Hey Jude", but this is something that gets in the way everytime I listen to it. I thought if I can get to the actual words maybe I can exorcise it. At the very least is a curious oddity.
Thank you very much!
Re: "Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted
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What are you hearing? Gibberish for me.
What are you hearing? Gibberish for me.
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Re: "Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted
"Way, no, go back, June" is what it sounds like to me...which makes even less sense than "The pain won't come back, Jude." But this isolation certainly does make it easier to hear the "f*ckin' 'ell" at 2:58.
"Take this cavaquinho, brother; may it serve you well."
"Take this cavaquinho, brother; may it serve you well."
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Re: "Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted
Thank you very very much, Track06!Track06 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 5:05 pm hxxps://www.transferxl.com/download/084TCmKv3dLQM
What are you hearing? Gibberish for me.
It does make it a bit more possible to figure what´s being said there.
Maybe something to do with something being in or out of tune?
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Re: "Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted
For me, it will forever sound like pega o cavaquinho LOL
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Re: "Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted
Does it mean anything that when you play it backwards, it says, "Who's Albert Finney?"?
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Re: "Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted
For me, it sounds like 'Pain on the back, Jude', presumably because of the movement is on the shoulder.
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Re: "Hey Jude"´s "pega o cavaquinho" - (big) help wanted
Get a normal resolution audio file and slow the pitch of that spot down by .7%: it sounds (then) like Paul is using the same phrase he throws in during the end coda of Back In the U.S.S.R. (recorded three weeks after "Jude") --- "Hey, look I'm back".