Yester-day, I learned the chords to "Can't Nobody Love You" along with the riff at the end. I had some audio problems, so I couldn't really record a version until now. Apparently, I have to have my ceiling light turned off (since it's on a dimmer) and turn my wireless internet off.
My voice doesn't suit this at all, hence the lack of any vocals. The remaining parts sound sort of bare without either vocals or percussion. It doesn't help any that I don't have the electric piano part exactly right.
I learned the middle part of Argent's "Like Honey" to-day, so now I know the whole song and should be able to record a rough cover version in the next few weeks.
I recorded this yester-day. It's the Zombies' "Hung up on a Dream" with all of the guitar parts that I know (and the piano part at the end played on guitar).
I listened to the entirety of Into the Afterlife to-day, and I'm pretty sure I learned the whole bass part for "Telescope (Mr. Galileo)." I think I've figured out the little bass riff in "She Loves the Way They Love Her" too, which is the only part of that I had to figure out before I learned the whole bass part.
I did an incomplete cover of the Zombies' "One Day I'll Say Goodbye."
I listened to Zombie Heaven yester-day, and the bass part for this sounded similar to the bass part of "Gotta Get a Hold of Myself," which I know. So that was pretty easy to figure out. The keyboard solo (done here on melodica) isn't exactly right, but it's close enough for now.
Since I don't have my guitar with me at uni, I couldn't even try to figure out the guitar part.
I was watching Parenthood earlier, and Sam Cooke's "Bring It on Home to Me" was on in the background of one of the scenes. Since I had my guitar on my lap, I started playing along, and I figured out that it's basically a three-chord song (C, F, and G). But then I realised that the Zombies (sort of) covered "Bring It on Home to Me."
I say "sort of" because they have a medley track that starts off with "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" then transitions to "Bring It on Home to Me" and then back to "You've Really Got a Hold on Me."
So I realised that I could take "Bring It on Home to Me," which I had just learned, and use it to figure out "You've Really Got a Hold on Me." Which I did (it's only five different chords - A, F#m, D, E, and an occasional B), but - typically - it's not in my vocal range.
To-day was the first day of my third year at university. As an English major, I have to take a class on Shakespeare, and one of the things my professor did was have us go around the room and say something personally significant about Shakespeare. I commented on how far-flung allusions to him are. As an example, I used the phrase "brief candle" from Macbeth. Aldous Huxley took this phrase and titled a series of short stories Brief Candles. Then, Chris White took that title and wrote a song called "Brief Candles" for Odessey and Oracle. Rod Argent had quoted Shakespeare's The Tempest in the liner notes, and now here was this other, hidden Shakespeare reference.
So when that class was done, I decided to listen to "Brief Candles," because it had been awhile since I last listened to it. But while listening to it, I thought the bass line sounded pretty easy to learn. So I did. And then I learned the rest of the guitar part. (The audio posted above includes only the guitar and bass part, as that's all I have the opportunity to record at the moment.)
I was going to post this to my other tumblr account, where I keep my personal musical output, but I'd been thinking of creating a tumblr to track my progress of learning all of the Zombies' songs (and other related bands' songs, such as Argent and Colin Blunstone’s solo work). So I decided finally to do it.
I've learned a handful of songs already, but I haven't recorded any official versions yet (and since I'm currently at university, it doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon). So I'm still very early on in this long project.
