Friday, June 15, 2018

"Tell Me What You See"


Last week I learned most of the instrument parts for "Tell Me What You See."  Mostly, I wanted to learn just the electric piano part (because it's the Hohner Pianet!), but while listening to the recording in order to learn that, the bass part sounded easy too.  And then the chords (just I IV V in G major), and then the tambourine part.  I learned the claves part too, but since I don't (yet) have claves, I couldn't record that.  (As a sidenote, I think this and "And I Love Her" are the only Beatles songs with claves.)

I notated the bass part (thereby discovering that while a lot of sections of the song are repeated, the bass part is never the same twice), but the electric piano part is above my current skill level of notation, so I filmed those parts in order to have some record of it.  I think there are a few note pairs that aren't as simultaneous as they should be, and the tambourine rhythm lags a bit after the first electric piano part.  I tried doing the vocals too (twice, actually), but they were pretty terrible, so I ended up not using them.

For a (fairly) accurate sound, I used the Hohner Pianet sample on my Nord Electro 5.