Thursday, March 16, 2017

"Losing Hold"

About a week ago, I learned a mellotron phrase near the end of Argent's "Losing Hold."  I'd thought that after that one stand-out phrase, it just plays the same part as the electric piano, but as I was recording my own version, I discovered that that's not that case.  It plays its own phrase, doubles the electric piano, but then there's a second phrase.  While that second phrase has some similarity with the first, it's not exactly the same.  So while I thought I had the whole mellotron part, all I have is one phrase, which I guess is better than nothing: