Strawberry Field: Recording For Strawberry Fields

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Recording for Strawberry Fields began on November 24, 1966 it was initially laid out to be played as a gentle acoustic guitar ballad. However John wasn't fully happy with its arrangement. Therefore he asked George Martin to come up with a new arrangement that featured brass and strings that would be followed by heavy percussion along with the orchestra being added later throughout the song, but still unhappy with both versions. John then asked George Martin to edit the beginning of one song (Take 7) and combine it with the end of another (Take 26). This was thought to be impossible at first, but after experimenting with a variable-speed tape machine, he found a way to slow down (take 26) to the key of A major so that he could fuse it with (Take