Editing Strawberry Fields Forever (section)

===Take 7===
[[File:Mellotron, Museum of Making Music.jpg|thumb|right|A 1960s-era Mellotron, similar to that used on the Beatles recording]]
On 28 November, the band reassembled to try a different arrangement. The second version of the song featured McCartney's Mellotron introduction followed by the chorus.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=88}} The instrumentation on the basic track was similar to that for take 1, but with the inclusion of [[maraca]]s.{{sfn|Winn|2009|pp=71, 72}} Take 4 was considered sufficient for mix down and overdubs,{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=88}} which included a lead vocal by Lennon, McCartney's bass guitar, and Harrison again playing the slide parts, including what author John Winn terms "Morse code blips", on Mellotron.{{sfn|Winn|2009|p=71}}

Having taken [[Acetate disc|acetates]] home overnight, the band decided to redo the song again on 29 November, using the same arrangement. The second take that day was chosen as best and subjected to overdubs,{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=88}} such as vocal and bass guitar.{{sfn|Winn|2009|p=72}} In his lead guitar part,<ref name="PuttingTogetherThePieces" /> Harrison plays [[arpeggio]] chord patterns, after Lennon had struggled to master the picking technique.{{sfn|MacDonald|2005|p=217fn}} Lennon's vocal was recorded with the tape running fast so that when played back at normal speed the tonality would be altered, giving his voice a slurred sound.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=88}}

During the subsequent mix-down process, creating what became take 7, Lennon added a second vocal over the choruses.{{sfn|Winn|2009|p=72}} The other final overdubs were piano{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=91}} and further bass.<ref name="PuttingTogetherThePieces" />{{refn|group=nb|Joseph Brennan, a [[Columbia University]] researcher who wrote an expansive study of the recording of "Strawberry Fields Forever",{{sfn|Rodriguez|2012|p=194}} questions part of Beatles historian [[Mark Lewisohn]]'s description of the track.<ref name="PuttingTogetherThePieces" /> While Brennan makes no mention of piano on take 7 but includes a second bass part,<ref name="PuttingTogetherThePieces" /> Winn omits either of these and instead writes that an overdub on "Mellotron (piano and guitar settings)" was among the last additions to take 7.{{sfn|Winn|2009|p=72}}}} This version would be used only for the first minute of the released recording.{{sfn|Lewisohn|2005|p=91}}{{sfn|Unterberger|2006|p=157}}