Saturday, October 2, 2021

"Piggies"

Recently, I learned (or re-learned) some parts for "Piggies."  While there are some spots where all I know is one instrument part, I still felt I had enough to make it worth recording.  This is up until the bridge:


Along with electric bass, I used French harpsichord E and the Mellotron cello sound on my Nord Electro 5.  I'd learned just the beginning phrase of the harpsichord part in November 2017, but I never wrote it down.  I recently re-learned it and then got a bit more too.  I noticed what is probably a trivial feature in the second phrase (at ~0:21):


The last four notes of the first measure have the same intervals as the third phrase of "Westminster Quarters."


This is probably just coincidental, but I thought I'd point it out all the same.  (For what it's worth, Paul McCartney also quotes "Westminster Quarters" at the beginning of his "Let 'Em In.")