Editing Hello, Goodbye (section)

==Recording==
The Beatles began recording "Hello, Goodbye" at EMI Studios (now [[Abbey Road Studios]]) in October 1967,{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=280}} towards the end of filming for their ''[[Magical Mystery Tour (film)|Magical Mystery Tour]]'' television special.{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|p=238}} The latter was a film project that McCartney had initiated{{sfn|Hertsgaard|1996|p=233}} in an effort to focus the group in the wake of Epstein's death that August.{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|pp=224fn, 232–33}}{{sfn|Sounes|2010|pp=194–95}} Under the working title "Hello Hello", the Beatles taped the basic track for the song on 2 October,{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=128}} with [[George Martin]] producing the session and [[Geoff Emerick]] and [[Ken Scott]] as engineers.{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=371}} Author [[Richie Unterberger]] comments that the production and recording was unusually straightforward, relative to the experimentalism that had characterised much of the Beatles' studio work since completing ''Sgt. Pepper''.{{sfn|Unterberger|2006|p=182}} The line-up on the take selected for [[Overdubbing|overdubs]], take 14,{{sfn|Winn|2009|p=129}} was McCartney on piano, Lennon on [[Hammond organ]], [[George Harrison]] on [[maraca]]s, and [[Ringo Starr]] on drums.{{sfn|Everett|1999|pp=142–43}}

The band members then added tambourine, [[conga]] drum and [[Bongo drum|bongos]] over the coda.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=143}} This last section of the song came about while the group were working in the studio.{{sfn|Womack|2014|p=371}} Lennon, who was otherwise highly critical of "Hello, Goodbye",{{sfn|Guesdon|Margotin|2013|p=440}} approved of the addition, saying: "The best bit was the end, which we all ad-libbed in the studio, where I played the piano. Like one of my favourite bits on '[[Ticket to Ride (song)|Ticket to Ride]]', where we just threw something in at the end."{{sfn|Sheff|2010|p=198}} In McCartney's recollection, the coda "didn't sound quite right" until Emerick increased the [[reverberation]] on the [[tom-tom drum]]s, at which point, "it just came {{em|alive}}."{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=15}}{{refn|group=nb|McCartney added: "we put this echo full up on the tom-toms&nbsp;... We [[Phil Spector]]'d it."{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=15}}}} Everett cites the "Maori finale" as an example of the Beatles' pioneering use of codas in their recordings; in this instance, they provided "the cold ending followed by an unrelated coda", having similarly pioneered the "fade-out–fade-in coda" at the end of "[[Rain (Beatles song)|Rain]]" and "Strawberry Fields Forever".{{sfn|Everett|2009|p=154}}

The Beatles returned to the song on 19 October, two days after attending a memorial service for Epstein at the New London Synagogue on [[Abbey Road, London|Abbey Road]].{{sfn|Miles|2001|pp=281, 282}}{{sfn|Winn|2009|pp=79, 133}} At this session, Harrison added his lead guitar parts (treated with [[Leslie speaker|Leslie]] effect), McCartney recorded the lead vocal,{{refn|group=nb|McCartney's vocal on the song was sped up to give a "cleaner" sound.{{sfn|Womack|2009|p=99}} }} and Lennon, McCartney and Harrison supplied backing vocals; handclaps were also overdubbed.{{sfn|Everett|1999|p=143}} With two [[Ping-pong recording|reduction mixes]] having been carried out since 2 October, to free up space on the [[Multitrack recording|four-track tape]] for these and later overdubs, the master take was now nominally take 16.{{sfn|Winn|2009|p=129}} This version of the song appeared on the 1996 outtakes compilation ''[[Anthology 2]]''.<ref>Lewisohn, Mark (1996). Liner notes. ''[[Anthology 2]]'' CD booklet. [[Apple Corps]]/EMI. p. 43.</ref>{{sfn|Badman|2001|pp=553–54}} In his book ''The Unreleased Beatles'', Unterberger writes that take 16 features a more "active" guitar line from Harrison, who answers McCartney's vocal phrasing over the opening verse with a series of descending fills.{{sfn|Unterberger|2006|p=183}} Also present on this version is a short guitar solo, which would be replaced on the official release by what Unterberger terms "some inspired Paul [[Scat singing|scat]]-tinged singing".{{sfn|Unterberger|2006|p=183}} Unterberger speculates that the removal of these guitar parts may have caused tension between McCartney and Harrison, anticipating the pair's disagreements regarding the lead guitarist's role on McCartney compositions such as "[[Hey Jude]]" and "[[Two of Us (Beatles song)|Two of Us]]" over 1968–69.{{sfn|Unterberger|2006|pp=183, 244}}

Two [[viola]]s were added to "Hello, Goodbye" at Abbey Road on 20 October.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=129}}{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=282}} These string parts were played by classical musicians Kenneth Essex and Leo Brinbaum,{{sfn|MacDonald|1998|p=238}} and scored by Martin, who based the arrangement on a melody McCartney supplied on piano.{{sfn|Guesdon|Margotin|2013|p=441}} McCartney overdubbed bass guitar on 25 October and, following a trip to [[Nice]] in France to film his "[[The Fool on the Hill|Fool on the Hill]]" segment for ''Magical Mystery Tour'',{{sfn|Miles|2001|p=282}} added further bass to the track on 2 November.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=130}}{{sfn|Everett|1999|pp=90, 142–43}} A mono mix of "Hello, Goodbye" was completed that same day, and the stereo version on 6 November.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=130}}