The second half of the song is John singing through a Leslie speaker. A Leslie speaker is a speaker that spins inside its speaker box. Normally they are attached to a Hammond organ. They had to break into the speaker and attach a microphone. Sound effects that you can make today with a touch of a button were non-existent when the Beatles created this recordings. Their inventiveness (and George Martin’s) was insane.

Ringos' Drum pattern on this song is my favorite instrument. The genius they did in the studio is awesome. Johns vocals are elongated and makes it even more unique. Great example of Psychedelic Rock.The Beatles Rule 🔥🔥🔥

I get really excited when people react to this song! This is such a landmark song in music history.

Electric guitars were invented in the 1930's, 30 plus years before this song came out. The Beatles recorded one and played it backwards for this recording. There's a lot going on in this song.

The Beatles didn't exist within a genre, they created them. This music would become popular about 30 years after the Beatles invented it.

Boy did you ever pick a monster of a song here, even for the Beatles! This song was so revolutionary, nothing like this song before or since! Glad you are taking the journey; I am totally here for this!

Pre-cassette: this is reel to reel tape, the main recording workhorse of the 1960's when the Beatles were recording mainly at EMI/Abbey Road studios in London.

Drums: Compressed drums with a non-standard pattern by Ringo Starr Vocals: Processed vocals through a Leslie speaker cabinet and automatic double tracking Guitar: Reverse guitar Cymbals: Reverse cymbals Tape loops: Mixed in and out of the song Bass: McCartney's bass maintains a constant ostinato in C, despite implied chord changes in the verses and at the end of the song Other instruments: Sitar and tambura drone, and one of the first uses of a flanging effect on an instrument

This music became popular about 30 years later. Just the Beatles inventing genres of music as they did. Greatest band ever by a long long way. No Celo's on this one. Sitars a Meltron, Bass, Drums and Tape Loops and Electric Guitar played backwards.

This song would sound right at home on one of Radiohead's experimental albums from the 2000s. It isn't a generation ahead of its time - it's TWO generations ahead.

Psychedelic Beatles.

No cellos or trumpets on this one. Aside from John Lennon’s vocal and Ringo’s drums, most of what you can hear are tape loops, many played backwards

Electric Guitar was invented in the 1930/40s Tape loops give the weird.

Oh yes, there were definitely electric guitars back then, and before that time. Some of the sounds that may throw you off in this song: the electric guitar lead, recorded on analogue reel to reel, is put in backwards. So all of the guitar solos in this song are backwards. Then what sounds like "seagulls" are actually tape recordings by Paul McCartney, this time with the tape being cut in limitless random pieces and then spliced together and played back, giving that weird sound effect. Finally, if you watch the Beatles Anthology, recorded in 1995, with Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, along with their producer George Martin. John had been murdered outside of his and Yoko's apartment building in December 1980, so he was not at this session. In the session, George Martin is doing the playback on this song, isolating the different recorded tracks on playback. When Ringo heard the playback, he stated the drumming style that he was performing on this track as a "rhumba".

To my understanding, a cello is like a big bass violin. It has a lower register than a vioin. Don't think there are either on this track, but if I'm wrong I'm happy to be corrected.

What do you think the Beatles were from, the stone age. There were electric guitars 40 years before this,

Mind blowing ignorance

Why don't you just keep stopping it every few seconds to make a banal observation. Oh, you did.