Friday, June 2, 2017

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

After I listened to Sgt. Pepper yester-day (because it was the 50th anniversary of its release), I figured out the first keyboard section in "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."  I did some research and learned that the specific instrument is a Lowrey organ, which has different accompaniment settings.  This explains why at one point I thought it was a harpsichord.  In my recording, I doubled organ and harpsichord, so the specific sound probably isn't very accurate, but I'm pretty sure the notes are (most of them, at least).

After I learned that keyboard part, I learned the bass part for that first section, only to discover that I'd already learned and even notated it last year.  I think it was around the same time I wrote about the song in September.