This year, I'm endeavoring to look into one of the Zombies' Decca-era songs every week (although I've been a bit lax lately). The song I lookt into two weeks ago was "I Can't Make up My Mind." While thinking about the bass part, I realized that it has the same rhythm as "Tell Her No," "Whenever You're Ready," and "Time of the Season." I got rather excited about this, but then I went looking into some old posts and discovered that I already knew this. I wrote
this post in December 2015 in which I acknowledged that similarity in rhythm. However, I was wrong about where the bar lines should be drawn. I didn't realize then that "I Can't Make up My Mind" begins on an upbeat, so the rhythm in each bar is the same as some sections of the songs listed above. That is: two dotted quarter notes followed by two eighth notes.
While writing out notation, I usually find some subtleties that I was unaware of, and that same thing happened with "I Can't Make up My Mind." There's a chromatic phrase (from G to F) that I'd missed before.
I wrote in the chords above the staff, but in some places, those may be simply implied rather than played out-right. And, as always, there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong.
