"Pure Love"

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A tiny bit of Argent's "Pure Love."  (A very tiny bit, considering the whole song is about thirteen minutes.)

This just popped into my head, so I figured it out.  (Although first I had to figure out what it was.  For a few minutes, I wondered if it was a song by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.)  I had to adjust the second part a bit because, in my head, the second part was just a repetition of the first.  Surprisingly, when I figured it out by memory, I was in the right key - G minor.

I think I may have figured out the bass part too, but I'll save that for later.

"I Don't Want to Know"

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I tried figuring out that little bass riff in "Hung up on a Dream," but it's still too elusive.  So instead, I worked out at least the majority of the bass part for "I Don't Want to Know."  I'm not sure of the accuracy during the solo or the very end.

"Tragedy"

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I listened to Argent's All Together Now yester-day, and for the first time I noticed that there's a piano part in "Tragedy."  It's sort of buried under Russ Ballard's guitar.

I'm pretty sure there's more to it than what I play here.

It seems like this semester will be pretty busy, so I might not have a lot of time to put into this project.  If I do anything, it'll probably be just easy parts like this.

"Changes"

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It seems like I post a version of "Changes" every few months.  This time, I think I've figured out how to do the panning from hard left to hard right.  For almost four years, aside from "This Will Be Our Year" and "Time of the Season," I'd heard Odessey and Oracle only in stereo, so, for me, that panning was as much a part of the song as the mellotron.  So many parts on the album work so well in stereo, that it's weird to think that it was originally planned to be only in mono.

Anyway.  I'm not sure if the way I did the panning is the same way that the Zombies did it, but it's a method I'm really excited about (I wrote a whole page about ways I could use it).

Odessey and Oracle

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I've been working on learning all of the Zombies songs since about 2010, but I really started working on it in earnest in August 2012.  In October last year, I finally got to the point where I know at least one part for each song from Odessey and Oracle (although I know the rejected 'cello part for "A Rose for Emily" better than I know the piano part), so I thought I would post a rough version of what I know of the whole album.

I plan to do this once every year, so that you can hear how much I learn as time goes by.  There are certainly some dead spots that I should fill in.

I first heard this album in January 2009, and it's really weird for me to think about how much I've grown musically since then.  In January 2009, I was a month away from learning how to play guitar - the first instrument I really learned - and now, five years later, I can play through the whole album on various other instruments.