Every so often, I go through a period where I'm obsessed with the Moody Blues' Days of Future Passed. I listened to it every week in 2013 (on Tuesdays because of "Tuesday Afternoon") and again for a couple months in spring 2017 when I got the CD re-issue with bonus tracks. Recently, I've been getting into it again.
Over the last few years, I've also been getting more and more interested in learning note-perfect instrument parts. Throughout last year, I learned a few parts (or bits of parts) for almost all of the songs on the album. Because I've been getting into it again, I've been learning even more parts (I recently acquired a Nord Electro 5D on which I can play samples of the original mellotron tapes, which helps spur my enthusiasm).
Between my renewed interest and the Moody Blues' upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I thought I'd start a blog where I can write about the songs and maybe even post some chords and notation (but always with the disclaimer that I might have something wrong). I have a number of similarly formatted blogs for other bands already. The conceit is that I try to learn every part to every song, and on the way to my impossible goal, I discover interesting features that I probably wouldn't have noticed had I not undertaken this endeavor.
For my initial posts, I'm simply going to collect various things that I've already written (perhaps with some editing), going chronologically by album. I should note that I don't have all of the albums: my collection is complete up until To Our Children's Children's Children, and I have a few albums later on in the catalogue and two live albums.
As with my other projects, there might be some long periods of dormancy, but since I seem to be working towards learning every part of Days of Future Passed already, I figure I might as well make it an official project.
