"Sweet Mary"

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I listened to Argent's Ring of Hands a few days ago, and the bass part for "Sweet Mary" sounded pretty easy, so I learned some of it.  I'm fairly certain that the keyboard part that precedes this includes at least part of this bass line, but I haven't tried it yet.

Interestingly, it's sort of the opposite of the bass part in "This Will Be Our Year."  At one point, this goes chromatically from E to A (ascending), where the bass part in "This Will Be Our Year" goes chromatically from A to E (descending).

Additionally, the rising chromaticism helps to musically portray the line "Take me higher."  Although, as "This Will Be Our Year" is a pretty optimistic song, I don't think you could apply the same sort of programmatic aspect to that chromatic bass line.  That is: just because it's descending doesn't mean that it isn't a happy song.

This is a new one in the catalogue, but I don't know enough of it to really feel satisfied yet.