"I'm Going Home"

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The first session for the Begin Here album (when the Zombies recorded "I'm Going Home," "Sticks and Stones," and "Road Runner") was fifty-one years ago to-day, so I have a bunch of songs to record new versions of and hopefully learn new parts to.  The second Begin Here session (seven more songs) was fifty-one years ago to-morrow, so I'll be doing this daily for a week and a half.

I picked "I'm Going Home" to do first (even though it wasn't on the album) because, of the three songs recorded during this session, I know the most parts for it.  The last time I recorded this was in August last year, so it's been awhile, and I had a lot I had to re-acquaint myself with.  Thankfully, I'd written out about a third of the bass part (in notation even!), so I didn't have to work so hard on that.

I learned a bit more of the bass part, but I'm still stuck on the part during the last section (the chords are the same as the earlier sections, so I played the bass part from the earlier sections).  I also cleaned up a phrase in the guitar part.  I think it starts with Es an octave apart and then alternates between progressively lower notes and that high E where earlier I'd started with a fourth (E to A) and then alternated with that A note.  I learned a bit of the organ part too, but I learned just the parts where the organ doubles the guitar part (or vice versa), so it's not that much progress.