Thursday, March 3, 2016

"I Must Move"

Backdated, archival post

[link to original on tumblr]

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I decided to refresh my knowledge of the bass part for "I Must Move" before I started recording my own version.  In doing so, I discovered that I actually had a note wrong.  What I always thought was an A is actually an F.  This called the guitar part into question (I'd been suspicious of that part of it anyway), and what I thought was an A major is actually an F major.  I am duly embarrassed by this, but I am also excited because of the musicological implications.

That F major chord and F note are both accidentals in the song (which is in D major, for the most part).  They occur at the end of the "I must move, I must move" parts, corresponding to the "go" in "I must go."  So there's musical movement to that accidental, and there's movement in the "go" in the lyric.

I added some reverb to the guitar part.  It's that way in the original, but I still don't really know what I'm doing with reverb.