Showing posts with label The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2019

"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"

Over the last two years, I learned enough parts in "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" to make it worth recording.  In February 2017, I learned the bass part and the mellotron trombone part at the end, and last September, I learned the organ part.  In reading Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, I discovered that what I thought were guitar tremolos are actually played with a mandolin sound on mellotron (Chris Thomas, who played both mellotron parts, describes this on page 160).  I believe this simply doubles the organ part, albeit an octave lower.  I referenced The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook for the chords.

My recording is just a section of the song, roughly 1:23 to 2:30.


I used the mellotron samples available on the Nord website (played on my Electro 5D).  There are two trombone sounds available, and I used the Mk I sound.  Flipping back and forth between my recording and the original, it sounds exactly the same (although I think I played the part with too much legato; I should have broken up the phrases a little).