"She's Not There"

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Yester-day I listened to the I Love You album, and I noticed a couple things.  One of them is about "I Love You," and since it's a musical thing and the anniversary of the recording is in about two weeks (8 July), I'll wait until then for that.

Here's the second thing then; it's about the bass part in "She's Not There."  I still don't know the whole thing, but I know the part during the verses, which is the significant one here.  It's the part during the "Well, let me tell you 'bout the way she looked" sections that I don't know yet.

I'd always thought that the bass part during the electric piano solo was just the same as it is during the verses, but there's a small change in rhythm.  At the beginning of the song, the bass part goes like this:

For the first bar of the electric piano solo, the bass part is the same, but then the first quarter note in each bar (an A note) changes to two eighth notes:

I really need to make a list of the songs that do this, but "She's Not There" is one of the earliest Zombies songs that has this feature: the bass part under the solo could be exactly the same as it is during the verses (the solo is based on the same chords as the verses are), but there's a change that makes it a little more complex.