"Care of Cell 44"

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I figured out most of the mellotron parts for "Care of Cell 44."  The only ones I'm missing are in the bridge.  And again, I played them on melodica.  (I feel I should admit that it was mostly by watching Darian Sahanaja's hands on the Odessey and Oracle 40th Anniversary Concert DVD that I learned this.)

This is just the bass part and most of the mellotron parts, so it's a bit empty.  I didn't even include the first half of the first verse because there's no bass or mellotron part in it.

Stripping this down to just a few instruments really demonstrates how Rod Argent wrote the parts integrally.  During the verses, the bass part is pretty chromatic around the G major scale.  It breaks off at F#, but the voices resolve it.