"Butcher's Tale"

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I've been trying to practice piano more because so much of the Zombies' canon is dependent on keyboard instruments.  One of my problems is that I'm very inexperienced/under-practiced in making chords with my right hand.  (It doesn't help any that playing guitar has sort of solidified the left-hand-makes-chords paradigm.)

This was a big problem with "Butcher's Tale."  On all of the versions I've posted here, I multi-tracked the chords and the bass part so I could play them separately.  And when I did play the two parts at once (just for my own enjoyment), it was with this terribly awkward right-arm-over-left-arm position so that I could still play the chords with my left hand.  But I'm starting to be able to play it with more normal arm positioning, playing the chords with my right hand and the bass part with my left hand.  This also involved using different chord inversions.  I haven't compared this new way of playing it to the original recording yet, so I don't know if those inversions make a big difference or not.

Regardless, I'm slowly getting better at keyboard instruments, which will certainly be an advantage for this project.