The Beatles Through Headphones by Montgomery Ted

Author:Montgomery, Ted
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

Yellow Submarine

RELEASED JANUARY 17, 1969

“Everything had to be tailor-made for the picture [Yellow Submarine film]. If a door opened or a funny face appeared at a window, and those moments needed to be pointed-up, it was the musical score that had to do the job. The answer is really very simple. You plan whatever tempo your rhythm is going to be, and then you lay down what is called a ‘click track.’ That is, a separate track, [that] simply contains a click sound which appears every so many frames of film. You know that 35-mm film runs at 24 frames per second, so knowing what tempo you want, you simply ask the film editor to put on a click at whatever interval you want. Then while conducting the orchestra, you wear headphones through which you can hear the clicks, and by keeping to that particular beat you ‘lock in’ the orchestra to the film. In that way you can write your score knowing that, even if something happens a third of the way or halfway through a bar, you can safely put in whatever musical effect you want, with absolute certainty that it will match the picture … that is how I did it with ‘Yellow Submarine.’ I wrote very precisely even with avant-garde and weird sounds like ‘Sea of Holes,’ keeping to their bar-lines, knowing that the click track would ensure it fitted.”

—George Martin20

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