The Beatles: Multitracking and the 1960s Counterculture | Lesson Plan | Soundbreaking
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The Beatles: Multitracking and the 1960s Counterculture | Lesson Plan | Soundbreaking

Multitrack recording machines transformed records from simply documenting a live performance to capturing creative new sounds, which a live performance could not produce. With multitracking, producers and musicians could add or remove elements from the recording. In this lesson, students learn about multitracking and how this new technology affected The Beatles, both in their records and their live performances.