Tuesday, February 11, 2020

"Remember You"

I recently remembered/re-learned the bass part for the single version of "Remember You."  Last week, I wrote it down (I plan on scanning it and posting it eventually), and while doing so, I realized that it represents the lyrics in this section:
And if I should change my mind
And I do sometimes
You know I do sometimes
I'll come back to you
The bass part there is:


(There's a glissando between the D and B bridging the first and second measures of the second line, but I couldn't indicate that in the program I use to make notation.)

There are a handful of accidentals here, and they musically represent that "chang[ing] my mind."  The first G# (in the third measure) is particularly effective because it's directly underneath "change."

This feature is also present in the soundtrack version, although that's in a different key.  I've already written out the bass part for that version, but since that was one of my first forays into notation and was almost four years ago, it's a bit rough.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

"Something Happens When You Touch Me"

Last night, I figured out a couple more parts for Colin Blunstone's "Something Happens When You Touch Me" (bass for one section and the chords in the bridge).  I realized something that I was very close to seeing when I wrote about the song in October 2018.  In the line "Just say the word, and I'll drop ev'rything, ev'rything," the three syllables of those "ev'rything"s are all sung to different pitches (F E C, A G E in the lead vocals, A G E, C Bb G in the harmony vocals), musically giving a sense of breadth.