Friday, March 1, 2019

"Liar"

This morning I figured out the electric piano part in "Liar."  Apparently, I'd figured out some of it back in May 2015, but I never wrote this down and had forgotten it.  I made sure to write it down this time.

For much of the song, the bass register of the electric piano plays on the off-beats.  In my post from 2015, I seem to mention this, but I wasn't very clear, so I don't know if I really understood what was going on there or not.  In any case, I realized that the bass register of the electric piano in "Liar" is like Rod Argent's vocal line in the second half of the second verse of "Friends of Mine."  In August 2016, I discovered that it's on the off-beats.  Here's some better formatted notation than what's in that post:


"Friends of Mine" was written by Chris White, and "Liar" was written by Russ Ballard, but since both of them have Rod Argent singing or playing a part on the off-beats, I'm assuming that these are parts of the arrangements that he contributed.