After doing the guitar parts for "It Never Fails to Please Me" yester-day, I got thinking about the Into the Afterlife album. Back in November, I had apparently figured out the bass part for "Telescope (Mr. Galileo)," but I don't really remember it and I didn't record a version.
But I think I figured out the chords for it. I'm pretty sure these aren't actually played in the original version, but I find that it helps to figure out the parts if you know the chords.
It's interesting that the verses and the chorus use the same chord progression - just different melodies - but that doesn't make this any more interesting to listen to.
This is just the guitar parts (and a few notes of the bass part), and since most of the guitar parts are chromatic and sort of sparse, it's rather disjointed listening to them on their own.
This is an-other one that fades out at the end, so I had to extend one phrase for a few notes.
Furthermore, this has necessitated a new "miscellaneous" section in the catalogue, since this was recorded in the nebulous period between the Zombies and Argent.
I'm pretty sure the chords are broken into arpeggios during the "And as you've waited for me" part, but I'm still a bit unsure of how they are broken up, so I just play them straight. Or attempt to. Barre chords on twelve string guitar are still really difficult for me, but it's necessary to play some of these chords that way. Like Gm.
I've been working on the bass part for this too, but there are still a few parts I'm unsure of, so I've held off on that for now.
I have a list of what songs I have left to do rough versions of, and I realized that "Beechwood Park" wasn't on there. I hadn't listed it because I didn't know all of the guitar parts. The only chords I knew was the transition from Bsus4 to B.
So I felt bad about that and figured them out last night. I think they're correct, but I'm a bit suspicious of the F major I put in here.
A few other things:
This is the first time I've really used any effects.
I have four versions of this that I listened to in order to learn it, and it's interesting how much the song changes between each of them. It's also interesting that for a song written in 1967, the first performance was in 2006 (according to the Live at the Bloomsbury DVD).
This ends a bit abruptly, but on the original record, the organ and voices are the only things at the very end.
I finally got around to updating what I know of "Brief Candles." I had a few parts in the bass wrong, and the guitar part was in the wrong octave.
A few months ago, I did some work on the piano part. I know that it's mostly centered around the first five notes of the E major scale, but I don't know it that well (I haven't practised it, and I'm not even sure if I ever figured out the whole melody) and I certainly don't know the accompaniment. I didn't include it here, which is why this starts at the beginning of the first chorus and why there are a lot of empty places.
Also, I'm not sure if I have all of the bass part for the very end. It fades out, so it's a bit hard to hear. Though, like the piano part, I haven't done any work lately on figuring that out either.
I've been listening to Argent's Nexus every Friday since April, and I started playing along to "A Man for All Reasons" when I listened to it to-day. I figured out most of the bass part just by doing that, and, after an-other three or four listens, I had the whole thing.
I do make some mistakes (because some parts are a bit difficult to play - jumping between the lowest and highest strings, for example) and I'm pretty sure I have some of the rhythms wrong, but I just learned it to-day.
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).
