Thursday, August 7, 2014

"Keeper of the Flame"

Backdated, archival post

[link to original on tumblr]

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I'm not even sure this is really worth posting, but anyway….

I listened to Argent's Nexus to-day, and I thought the organ part at the beginning of "Keeper of the Flame" sounded like it would be pretty easy to figure out.  Not really.

I think I got most of it, but I'm still missing a chord (G minor?) and some other bits.  Also I couldn't really find a setting that matches the Hammond organ as it sounds on the original.  I really want a Hammond organ, but I have neither the money to buy one nor the space to put one.

Interestingly, a phrase in this organ part resembles the bass part of "Hung up on a Dream."  There's an ascending diatonic phrase that then descends by a half-step.  Here, it's G A Bb C D Db.  ("Hung up on a Dream" has B C# D# E F# G# G.)

That whole sticking-to-one-song-for-a-month-or-so didn't last very long.  Also, this song is new to the catalogue.