"The Coming of Kohoutek" / "It Never Fails to Please Me" / "I'll Keep Trying"

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I learned a few bits of Argent's "The Coming of Kohoutek" earlier, and I figured out a better way to play one of the guitar parts in "It Never Fails to Please Me" from the Into the Afterlife album.

I also realised that the parts I had sort of made up for "I'll Keep Trying" are actually pretty accurate.  Since they're probably as accurate as I'm going to get, I'm just going to say I'm done with that.  I may record a version of just the guitar part to-morrow.  I know the bass part too, but I've already done a version with that, and it hasn't changed.

"Leave Me Be"

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January's Cloak:

A cover of the Zombies' "Leave Me Be."

"Summertime"

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Two days ago, I learned the first part of the bass part for "Summertime."  I figured out the part that goes with the solo this evening, so now I know the whole thing.

"I Want You Back Again"

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KEXP uploaded videos from the Zombies' set at SXSW.  I'm not sure whether it was just because I hadn't listened to "I Want You Back Again" for a long time or because I could watch Rod Argent, but it became obvious to me that the chord progression was based on fifths.  So I figured it out.  It's mostly just C minor and F major.

I think that makes "I Want You Back Again" one of the few songs where I learned the piano part before anything else.  This is a bit rough, and I play the wrong notes in a few spots, but I just learned it to-day.  The blank part is where the solo should be.

"Care of Cell 44" / "Can't Nobody Love You"

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I recently realised that while I thought I knew all of the bass part for "Care of Cell 44," I had the very beginning wrong.  So I fixed that yester-day, and I just now spent awhile figuring out the bass part for "Can't Nobody Love You."

"Leave Me Be" / "Lula Lula"

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I'm not absolutely certain on either of these, but I think I figured out the rest of the solo for "Leave Me Be" and the two or three chords (or rather chord shapes, since they're not strummed) in "Lula Lula."

In related news, most of the Zombies songs I know are the ones that Chris White wrote….