Help!

Serving as the title song for the 1965 film and soundtrack album, 'Help!' was written by John Lennon (but credited as Lennon - McCartney).
In an interview with Playboy, Lennon stated that "[He] was fat and depressed and [he] was crying out for help" (Spitz, 2005, p. 555) which inspired the lyrics such as 'Help me if you can, I'm feeling down'
Originally meant to be at a slower tempo which Lennon intended it to be, it was made more upbeat to make it more commercial.

The song featured:

• Lennon on a twelve stringed rhythm guitar while providing lead vocals (double tracked as he always did)
• McCartney on bass guitar and providing backing vocals
• Harrison on lead guitar and providing backing vocals
• Starr on drums and tambourine

'Help!' went to number one on both the UK and US charts in late summer of '65 and was the fourth of six number one singles in a row on the American charts: 'I Feel Fine', 'Eight Days A Week', 'Ticket To Ride', 'Help!', 'Yesterday', 'We Can Work It Out' (Wallgren, 1982, pp. 38-45).

With all that in mind, I recently learned how to use  Pro Tools which is a bit like Audacity however it is more professionally used in recording studios. Like with anything new, it looked complicated however like most things, the hands on approach works wonders. It soon became apparent that it's not a difficult program to use and it was simple to correct a mistake when made.

Learning how to use Pro Tools gave me the perfect opportunity to try and create something, and what would be better than the song the song I've been analysing.

Finding the chords for the song was easy to do (http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/beatles/help_crd.htm) and to do the chords on piano was relatively straight forward, seeing as I'm stranger to it. 

First, I started off with using a piano sound (up the octave) and recording that, then adding on another layer down the octave. Then from there, adding on a 12 string rhythm guitar and bass.

At that point, I decided to be creative in the way I was playing each 'instrument' to make it different and also, I added on same male 'Oohs' and 'Aahs' to try and input harmonies. From there, I would have inputted actual vocals of the lyrics however I felt that from where it was, it was a good starting point.