To Be Over - Bassline Revised

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  • Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
  • Disclaimer: I own nothing, and I'm making nothing from this.
    On more than one occasion Steve Howe has stated that this is his favourite Yes song, and although the writing credits, like all of Relayer, are given to all five band members, it’s pretty clear that this is Steve’s composition. Anyway, I decided to update this for two reasons.
    One, is that the due to sterling work uploading isolated tracks from people like Behind the Multitrack / channel it’s become easier to hear what’s happening, and therefore to pick up on any errors and omissions.
    Two, time signatures: in this (as with quite a few Yes songs) it’s a judgement call over what the beat count should be, quavers, crotchets or minims. Quavers can feel too slow, crotchets too fast. With TBO it seemed much more realistic to honour the slow, ballady feel by altering the opening from an unreasonably fast 4/4 to a more stately 2/2; and later, when reaching the more waltzy section, altering lots of lonely little 3/4 bars to feeling the dotted minims as single beats, and thence feeling the phrasing better.
    1:05- I’ve heard it suggested that Chris is doubling the descending figures Steve’s playing on the sitar guitar, but you can hear the E sustaining here. Although I can’t hear it clearly, I’m assuming it’s done on the repeat and modulation, before the (F# Phrygian!) descending figures.
    1:52 - in the old version I scored this as 3/4, but it never looked right, even though that’s what Chris is doing. This looks and feels better to me. However, when the steel guitar solo starts (3:23) it would have looked a real mess to score syncopation against a 2/2 (or 4/2) feel, so I’ve left it as 9/8+12/8+11/8, and Alan’s kick follows the bass anyway. Typical Yes thing to do, but 8 minims = 16 crotchets = 32 quavers however you phrase them.
    2:12, bar 57 - that D natural should be a dotted minim, sorry
    3:21 - pull off those higher frets to let the open G sound
    4:27 - while this feels like something Steve’s doing (and he probably is), thanks to Behind the Multitrack’s upload you can clearly hear that the bass is doing it too.
    5:19 - The upper line in small notes is definitely there, and it doesn’t sound like Steve’s doing it; it certainly doesn’t sound like a Telecaster.
    7:35 - if you find it difficult to read the syncopation, just follow what the lead guitar is doing. Do not listen to the vocals.

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