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I have a list of about twelve things I have to look into and possibly write about. Two days ago, I checked one of them and confirmed that there's a chromatic bass part in "Play It for Real." In the second half of the choruses, during "When you feel how you feel / There's no deal to reveal," the bass goes chromatically from F to D.
But then I checked my list, and I'd actually written down "Show Me the Way." So I checked that, and it too has a chromatic bass line. During the "If I bleed..." parts, there's an initial G before a chromatic descent from F to C. It goes up again (from that C to D to G) before repeating that chromatic phrase.
