"I'll Keep Trying"

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I don't really have anything to say about this one.

"Gotta Get a Hold of Myself"

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This may be the song that I know the most parts for, which is sort of ironic because this wasn't written by the Zombies.

The organ part is more complex than I play it, but I discovered its complexity only a few months ago (when I got The Decca Stereo Anthology), and I haven't tried learning it more completely since then.

Also, can I just mention how great that descending chromatic bass line is?  I think it's supposed to represent the "footsteps sound[ing] down the hall."

"Maybe after He's Gone"

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I have a version of "Maybe after He's Gone" that I recorded in October of 2011, so this is an-other one that's long overdue.

This ends a bit abruptly because the end is just voices and I recorded just the instrument parts.  Or at least what I know of the instrument parts.  I may be missing a bit of piano (and I'm not entirely sure that what I have is correct); I haven't started learning the bass yet (although I'm pretty sure that it follows the same bass notes as the guitar finger-picking); and I'm totally clueless when it comes to percussion.

"Pay Me Later"

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Along with the chords for "Telescope (Mr. Galileo)," I also learned the chords for Colin Blunstone's "Pay Me Later" on Wednesday.  Though, again, I'm not sure if they're actually played in the original recording.

Catching up on posting demos of what I know isn't going so quickly because I keep learning new parts, and I feel that those should take precedence.

"Telescope (Mr. Galileo)"

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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.

"It Never Fails to Please Me"

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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.

"How We Were Before"

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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.

"Beechwood Park"

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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.

"Just out of Reach"

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I included a bit of the bass part even though I don't think it's also played on guitar in the original.

"Brief Candles"

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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.

"A Man for All Reasons"

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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.

"The Way I Feel Inside" [rehearsal version]

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This is just the guitar chords of the rehearsal version, as heard on disc three of Zombie Heaven.  I'm a bit dubious of the accuracy of this.