"This Will Be Our Year"

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I sat down to-night with the intent of figuring out (at least some of) the mellotron parts in "Care of Cell 44," but that proved too formidable.

However! I did figure out most of the trumpet parts for "This Will Be Our Year."  The only trumpet part I didn't figure out is one at the very end.

"Don't Cry for Me"

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Last night, I recorded a version of "Don't Cry for Me."  I simply left out the "ah"s in between the verses because I cannot hold a consistent note unless I'm singing actual words.  However, I (sort of) solved that problem this morning:  I figured out the background vocal parts (or at least some of them) on keyboard.  I just added those to what I recorded last night, and it doesn't sound too bad.

I'm still not going to upload anything for awhile yet because I'm still busy doing FAWM, and then I have to get back to my EP.  But hopefully by the summer I'll start posting some works in progress.

"Don't Cry for Me"

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A few weeks ago - around the time I started learning "Remember You," I also figured out most of the chords for "Don't Cry for Me," but I was stuck in a few.  I figured those out just now.  It was F#m and C.  Yeah.

Again, I probably won't post even a rough version for a while because I'm busy with FAWM, and I don't want to mess up my note continuity project.

"Remember You" / "I Got My Mojo Working"

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Yester-day, I thought I had learned all of the chords for "Remember You," but upon further review, I had a few of them wrong.  So I know the verses, but I'm stumped on a few chords in the chorus (and it doesn't help that the chorus goes pretty fast).

However, I also learned yester-day that "I Got My Mojo Working" is a simple 3-chord song - C, F, and G.  This should have been fairly obvious, as it includes Rod Argent's harmonica playing and most harmonica songs are in C.

"Remember You"

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I learned the chords for the Zombies' "Remember You" this afternoon.  I also listened to the soundtrack version from Bunny Lake is Missing.  That version is a key lower, which is interesting.