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First, I learned the opening organ part (I think). If I have it correct, it (and the rest of the song) seems to vacillate between A minor and A major. In some ways, it's kind of like the Beatles' "I'll Be Back," which also seems to move between A minor and A major. The verses in each have a chord progression in common too: A major, G major, F major (F major 7th in "I'll Be Back"), E major. Each chord lasts for two beats in "What More Can I Do," but four in "I'll Be Back." The bass plays the root of each chord for that section in both songs too.
After the organ part, I learned the bass part (I'm pretty confident about one section [the first half of the verses and the solos, which is the same part], but not so much on the second [starting about halfway through the verses, at "But something always holds me back" in the first and "But something always keeps a hold on me" in the second]). I was sort of surprised to find a three-note chromatic phrase in it. That's typically a feature of Argent's writing, but this is a Chris White song.
Like I mentioned, some of the song seems to be in A major, but the bass outlines most of an A minor scale at the very end (and I'm pretty sure the guitar ends on an A minor chord). I think there's a slight note-bend on the second-to-last note (a C), which I might have over-done.
The guitar part is much more accurate than in the last (and only other) recording I did, which had only the guitar part. I figured out the rhythm of the first two chords in the verses, and - while it might not be exact - my arpeggiation of the next two chords sounds better than playing them straight.
In thinking about the lyrics, I noticed that there's either a line break or a caesura to separate "I wish I knew / What it is that stops me" and "From loving you," which emphasizes that hindrance. In my transcription, I have it as a line break, but I might have my line breaks in the wrong places.
