"Celebration"

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I listened to Argent's Ring of Hands this morning just for the sake of it, and then I decided to figure out the one guitar part in "Celebration."  I got the chords and the solo too, so I think I know all of the guitar parts now.  The first minute and a half or so is just the chords though, so it's not that interesting.

Part of the chord progression of this is the same as that of "She's Coming Home."  Specifically, the part that Rod Argent took from Herbert Howells:  E major, E major 7th, C# minor, B major.  In "She's Coming Home," that's all part of the verse, but in "Celebration," the E major, E major 7th, C# minor part serves as a transition to a different section that starts with B major.  (For the guitar part in "She's Coming Home," it's easier to play a G# minor, which is pretty close to an inverted E major 7th, but here I did play an E major 7th because a G# minor sounded weird.)  Aside from that part, the chords are really easy and relatively few.  Most of the song is just five chords.

I moved my recording set-up, and I'm still trying to get things working again, so this might sound a bit rougher than normal.

This is a new one in the catalogue too.  I haven't even written about "Celebration" before, which I'm kind of surprised about.