I can't take complete credit for learning this one. About five years ago, I got a copy of a book published by the Alfred Company that has some music for the Zombies' songs, and I learned this from that about three or four years ago.
I learned this from the demo, so it's slower and slightly different from the version that appears on New World. Also, I had to extend it a bit at the end because even the demo ends in a fade out, and I'm against fade outs and refuse to use them.
I hit quite a few bad notes in here because, while this isn't really difficult to play, it's difficult to play well.
Also, in learning this, I've noticed that there seem to be two different endings. In one, the final guitar strum occurs after the last lyrics, and in the other, they occur at the same time.
Until yester-day, I didn't know any songs from Colin Blunstone's solo albums (aside from a bit of "Though You Are Far Away"), so I decided to learn the chords for one of them. I figured that "Andorra" would be pretty easy, and, for the most part, it was. The only difficult thing to figure out was a weird B7 in the chorus. Usually, a B7 will retain a B as the root, but this one doesn't (assuming that I'm playing it correctly).
I only started putting serious effort into learning "I Don't Want to Know" a few days ago, so this may be a bit rougher than most.
For instance: I need to find a new way to play the riff because otherwise the A note sustains for too long. I don't know the solo yet, so there's a sonic dead spot in the middle of this. And I'm not sure if the chords are played straight or broken up into arpeggios or something. I'll have to listen to the Decca Stereo Anthology version.
Also, to-day marks the tenth day in a row I've done VCP demos!
I still have some more songs from Begin Here that I have to post rough versions of, but I decided to skip ahead to "Friends of Mine" for now.
I tried doing the vocals for this too, but they didn't turn out very well. So either my voice changed or I'm more particular about it because I remember recording a version of this in 2010 (though - sadly - I've since deleted it).
Lately, I've been posting rough versions of a lot of songs from the Begin Here album, and I'm getting close to the point where I can play all of the songs straight through on at least one instrument (although most of them are just the guitar chords), so I thought I would try learning some of the other ones.
So I went back to "I Don't Want to Know," which I figured out the main riff for about a year ago. If I can trust the "date created" for the .txt file I started for it, it was 28 April 2012.
Anyway, in playing through that, I've discovered that - again - Chris White uses the F#m G A D chord progression that he's (apparently) so fond of.
The isolated guitar part of this sounds even weirder than the isolated guitar part of "Sticks and Stones." The opening notes are meant to be played on bass, but I included them anyway.
I'm not sure if I have one of the riffs right either….
Apparently, this is a cover of a song by Gene Vincent (written by Bob Bain), but unfortunately I do not have a version by Gene Vincent, even though I do have his first two albums.
It seems like I've known the bass part for this for a few months, but it's probably closer to a year or more. I also know the first part of the electric piano solo. I learnt it on bass, but it's a lot harder to play on electric piano.
I sort of think that the electric piano solo is in a different key from the bass part because the bass is solidly in E major, but the first notes of the electric piano solo are E, G, A, and Bb. Aside from E, none of those notes are in the E major scale. So something weird is going on there.
Back when the only Zombies album I had was a compilation album called Night Riding, this was my favourite song by them.
After recording this, I found that I had a version of just the bass part that dates from 12 September 2012. So this is long overdue.
I've been working on learning the guitar parts, and The Decca Stereo Anthology has helped somewhat, but the riff is the only guitar part I know so far.
