Friday, February 10, 2017

"I Must Move"

A few days ago, I listened to the first disc of Zombie Heaven, and I noticed a chord change in "I Must Move" that I'd missed.  Initially, I thought it was Asus4 to A major, but after playing around on the guitar I discovered that it's actually A6 to A major.  I was close.

I'd forgotten some of the bass part, and in re-learning that, I discovered that I actually had a lot wrong.  I'd been playing notes in the wrong octaves and neglecting some other notes.  But then my more accurate bass part didn't sound right with my guitar chords, so I discovered that I was playing a few of those wrong too (I'd been playing an A major that should be an A minor, and I totally missed a C major).  I think I have it now, although I won't make any guarantees.

The guitar part is somewhat difficult, and between that and my being so used to playing the wrong thing, I had a lot of problems in recording this.  (I'm still not very good at using reverb either, and it's something of a feature in this song.)  Eventually, I just recorded each segment separately.  The bass is one complete take though.