"Summertime"

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This is now the 52nd anniversary of the Zombies' first session for Decca (on 12 June 1964).  I started with "Summertime" because I've been posting some form of notation (up to this point, it's been only chords) every Sunday and I can combine that with this anniversary.  Because I wrote out the bass part to "Summertime" in notation:

I mentioned this before, but when I was started writing this out, I discovered that I'd been playing some E and B notes in the wrong octave.  In the last measure of the first line, an erased E an octave lower is still faintly visible.  I'm pretty sure that now I have this right.

Because I corrected those notes and put them in the right octave, I also discovered some typical Argent three-note chromatic phrases.  And since I wrote out the notation, I can just say, "Look at the second and third measures of the third line."  It's E Db D.

I should really start trying to learn the electric piano part now....