Saturday, November 1, 2014

"The Way I Feel Inside"

Backdated, archival post

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Last night, I had some time to waste, so I tried figuring out the organ part in "The Way I Feel Inside," not really expecting to get anywhere.

But in figuring it out, I realized that - duh! - it follows the same chords as the rehearsal version (which I figured out last September).  So figuring it out was actually pretty easy, but I felt really stupid for not having realized earlier that they would use the same chords.

I actually played intervals of thirds (except for the final B major and possibly the last E major to E minor transition [I don't remember]) because full chords sounded too heavy.  There's a falling third in the first section (F# to D#), which then ascends to E (I think), which I'm not sure is very accurate.

The bass was pretty easy to figure out once I had the organ chords.  Except for a few extra notes that I figured out this evening (transitional G#s), it's all in the organ part.  And, typical of Rod Argent's writing, there are two instances of sequential half-steps: B to C to C# and B to A# to A.