Odessey and Oracle

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To-day I started in earnest in recording my annual Odessey and Oracle (I have all of the guitar parts and some mellotron parts so far), but - to my own surprise - I got a telephone call that I have a job (after almost two years of looking) and I start to-morrow, so I'm not sure if I'll actually finish this by the 19th.  I really have no idea what to expect from employment (aside from money so I can buy [and learn to play] a flute for that part in "I Know She Will").

Anyway, I discovered a few things just in recording what I have so far:

There's some assonance in "I Want Her, She Wants Me" - "I sleep so easy."  That repeated sound sort of represents the ease of the sleep; it's a mellifluous sound.  Also, what I thought was just a regular E minor chord has some variations; it's more like E minor, E minor 9, E minor with a G on top (which is apparently not called E minor 10), and then back through E minor 9 to a regular E minor.  There's a phrase constructed of the notes E, F#, G in the harpsichord part at the same time.

I thought I knew all of the mellotron parts on the album, but recording them for "Hung up on a Dream" has made me realize that I am missing some there.  I also found some alliteration in "Hung up on a Dream" - "Sometimes I think I'll never find / Such purity and peace of mind again."  It sort of demonstrates the same thing that the lyrics themselves mention - "purity and peace."

Rather than writing notes on my arm so I know when I come in with the mellotron parts for the verses in "Care of Cell 44" (like I did a few years ago), I notated the mellotron part for the verses.  The mellotron part during the bridge should be pretty easy to notate too, so hopefully I can post the notation for the entirety of the mellotron part sometime soon.  I've been trying to think of Zombies songs that have straight-forward guitar chords, and "Care of Cell 44" qualifies for that too, so it'll probably be the first song for which I post more than one notated part.