"Gotta Get a Hold of Myself"

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Apparently, this is only the second time I've recorded "Gotta Get a Hold of Myself" too.  I haven't learned any more of this, but I corrected a few errors.  I'd thought that a section of the bass part was just a scale (which I erroneously claimed was a "chromatic" descent when I last recorded this, before I knew what "chromatic" really means), but it doesn't complete the scale.  Instead of going to C and repeating, it goes to G and then starts over with C.  It's the kind of thing that notation would explain better than text does, and it doesn't help that this song has sections in multiple keys (C minor, C major, and E major, I think).

I also had the rhythm wrong with a section of the guitar chords.  I don't usually pay as much attention to strumming rhythm as I probably should, but this was something easy to fix.  I'd been continuously strumming throughout the second half of the verses ("I talk to you as though you can hear what I say…"), but it's actually two strums per chord in that third line and three per chord for the first half of the fourth.

I added some arpeggios to the organ chords in that same section (where the chord progression alternates between Bb major and Ab major).  I'm not sure that's strictly accurate, but the organ part is more than just straight chords, and doing it this way makes my recording a bit more interesting to listen to.

The guitar part for this is just chords (which I'm pretty confident I've figured out correctly), so I plan to post them in a couple days.