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I have notation this week too!
Over the last couple days, I notated the bass part for "Gotta Get a Hold of Myself." In the process, I discovered that I'd been missing some notes (which seems to be a regular thing; notation forces me to scrutinize what I'm playing).
The whole rests at the beginning and the first pair of tied whole notes at the end are where the organ plays the main motif, but the tempo there isn't consistent. The musical term is rubato.
Because the 50th anniversary of the recording (1 November 1966) and broadcast (5 November 1966) of the radio version of "Gotta Get a Hold of Myself" was last week, I also lookt into that and notated it. A long time ago, I mentioned something about comparing the studio versions with the live versions, and this was the first time I did that in a structured way. I… uh, took note (I can't think of a less musical way to say that) of the notes that differed from the studio version, and when I wrote out the notation, I put those notes in red. There are only four different notes, so starting a studio version/live version comparison with this song was sort of underwhelming, but there you go:
