Tuesday, October 8, 2024

"After You Came"

I listened to Every Good Boy Deserves Favour yester-day and noticed a small feature in "After You Came."  In the lines "So you just have to laugh / When it hurts so much," "hurts" is sung with a melisma (B A), giving a sense of degree (for "so much").

Sunday, October 6, 2024

"Dawn Is a Feeling"

Last night, I learned the bass part for the verses of "Dawn Is a Feeling."  To this, I could add some of the piano part, which I learned in March 2018.  I made a short recording of just one verse:


I used the "Grand Lady D" piano sound on my Nord Electro 5D, recorded in mono.

I also discovered that I'd misunderstood the meter of the song.  Before, I knew only the piano arpeggiations, so I thought the song was in 3/4, but learning the bass part made me realize that those piano arpeggiations are actually triplets and that the song is really in a slow 4/4 (although I think there's an odd measure in the verses that has only two beats), so some of my previous comments may not be valid.