Showing posts with label You Make Me Feel Good. Show all posts
Showing posts with label You Make Me Feel Good. Show all posts
Sunday, November 6, 2022
"You Make Me Feel Good"
I've been reviewing some of the early Decca era songs recently, and this evening I played through "You Make Me Feel Good." I realized that the song contains only major chords: E major, G# major, A major, and B major. Because there isn't any of the "sadness" of minor chords, there's something of a sense of that "feel[ing] good."
Saturday, August 15, 2015
I Love You
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[link to original on tumblr]
Like I mentioned earlier, I listened to I Love You this morning, and I noticed a few other things:
The backing vocals in "How We Were Before" sing the chromatic phrase that's in the chords. I don't know how I missed it before. Also, I'd never thought about this before, but the bongos that Hugh Grundy used on "How We Were Before" are probably the same ones that he later used on "Changes" from Odessey and Oracle.
The guitar phrases in "You Make Me Feel Good" have glissandi. I'd sort of been playing the second (the G# to A) that way, but the first is (I think) D# to E, not just E.
I haven't really figured out either, but the organ parts for "Leave Me Be" and "Sometimes" seem to have a bit of a relation. Specifically, a three-note phrase that starts on the fifth of whatever chord is being played. Both have a D major chord above which there's a A, B, C, B, A, B, C, B sort of figure. I'm not extremely confident on that though.
At the end of "She Does Everything for Me," someone (I think it's Rod Argent) sings along to the last guitar phrase, and I realized that it's the same thing that he does at the end of "Indication," except that's with the electric piano part.
[link to original on tumblr]
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The backing vocals in "How We Were Before" sing the chromatic phrase that's in the chords. I don't know how I missed it before. Also, I'd never thought about this before, but the bongos that Hugh Grundy used on "How We Were Before" are probably the same ones that he later used on "Changes" from Odessey and Oracle.
The guitar phrases in "You Make Me Feel Good" have glissandi. I'd sort of been playing the second (the G# to A) that way, but the first is (I think) D# to E, not just E.
I haven't really figured out either, but the organ parts for "Leave Me Be" and "Sometimes" seem to have a bit of a relation. Specifically, a three-note phrase that starts on the fifth of whatever chord is being played. Both have a D major chord above which there's a A, B, C, B, A, B, C, B sort of figure. I'm not extremely confident on that though.
At the end of "She Does Everything for Me," someone (I think it's Rod Argent) sings along to the last guitar phrase, and I realized that it's the same thing that he does at the end of "Indication," except that's with the electric piano part.
Saturday, June 13, 2015
"You Make Me Feel Good"
Backdated, archival post
[link to original on tumblr]
This is actually only the second time I've recorded "You Make Me Feel Good," which I was surprised about.
I included the electric piano part, but the only part of it that I'm sure about is the opening figure (doubling the guitar part). Otherwise, I just played chords, except for the very end, where I doubled the bass part. There's more rhythm to it than that, but I haven't really explored that yet, and I feel that a lot of these re-recordings I'm doing will be based more on my memory of how I once played them than strict accuracy.
I flubbed one of the half-step phrases in the guitar part (G# A G#) half-way through the song, but I was having troubles with it. There are only four chords in this, and sometimes it's hard to remember where I am in the song, so I didn't want to have to attempt it yet again.
[link to original on tumblr]
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I included the electric piano part, but the only part of it that I'm sure about is the opening figure (doubling the guitar part). Otherwise, I just played chords, except for the very end, where I doubled the bass part. There's more rhythm to it than that, but I haven't really explored that yet, and I feel that a lot of these re-recordings I'm doing will be based more on my memory of how I once played them than strict accuracy.
I flubbed one of the half-step phrases in the guitar part (G# A G#) half-way through the song, but I was having troubles with it. There are only four chords in this, and sometimes it's hard to remember where I am in the song, so I didn't want to have to attempt it yet again.
Sunday, December 21, 2014
"You Make Me Feel Good"
Backdated, archival post
[link to original on tumblr]
This is a thing I've been meaning to write about for at least a few months, if not a year or more.
In figuring out the opening riffs for "Sticks and Stones" and "You Make Me Feel Good," I found a few similarities. I felt it would be better to write out the notation for them rather than try to describe them verbally. (Actually, I figured out how to make notation in Cubase, which is infinitely better than my trying to do it manually. Plus I could check the note values with MIDI.) I've put different colored boxes around the parts that are similar.
Both songs are (mostly) in E major, but even the accidentals have some similarity. There are the same two in the opening riffs (D natural and G natural), and both songs include a descending chromatic phrase (G to F# to F to E) at the very end ("Sticks and Stones" has it as major chords and has it at the beginning too - after the riff).
I haven't found anything that confirms that the Zombies performed "Sticks and Stones" early in their career, but since "You Make Me Feel Good" has a riff that's pretty clearly inspired by it and since "You Make Me Feel Good" is one of the first songs they recorded, I'm fairly certain that "Sticks and Stones" was in their repertoire before they were signed to Decca.
[link to original on tumblr]
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In figuring out the opening riffs for "Sticks and Stones" and "You Make Me Feel Good," I found a few similarities. I felt it would be better to write out the notation for them rather than try to describe them verbally. (Actually, I figured out how to make notation in Cubase, which is infinitely better than my trying to do it manually. Plus I could check the note values with MIDI.) I've put different colored boxes around the parts that are similar.
Both songs are (mostly) in E major, but even the accidentals have some similarity. There are the same two in the opening riffs (D natural and G natural), and both songs include a descending chromatic phrase (G to F# to F to E) at the very end ("Sticks and Stones" has it as major chords and has it at the beginning too - after the riff).
I haven't found anything that confirms that the Zombies performed "Sticks and Stones" early in their career, but since "You Make Me Feel Good" has a riff that's pretty clearly inspired by it and since "You Make Me Feel Good" is one of the first songs they recorded, I'm fairly certain that "Sticks and Stones" was in their repertoire before they were signed to Decca.
Sunday, September 7, 2014
"She's Not There" b/w "You Make Me Feel Good"
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[link to original on tumblr]
[link to original on tumblr]
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Fifty years ago to-day (7 September 1964), the Zombies' debut single ("She's Not There" b/w "You Make Me Feel Good") was released in the U.S. and Canada on Parrot Records (PAR 9695).
Thursday, July 24, 2014
"She's Not There" b/w "You Make Me Feel Good"
Backdated, archival post
[link to original on tumblr]
[link to original on tumblr]
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Fifty years ago to-day (24 July 1964), the Zombies' debut single "She's Not There" b/w "You Make Me Feel Good" was released. Decca F.11940, if you really want specifics.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
First Session at Decca
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The Zombies favorited and re-tweeted my tweet!
Sunday, January 27, 2013
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