Tuesday, September 13, 2016

"Take a Giant Step"

Backdated, archival post

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When I watched "Royal Flush" yester-day, I noticed what I think is a glockenspiel part in "Take a Giant Step" and figured it would be easy to learn.  It's only five notes (and only three pitches), so I'm not going to bother recording it, but I realized later that the same musical phrase (A B C# B A) is played by the bass during the "Come with me; leave yesterday behind…" sections and by both bass and guitar during the instrumental section, starting at about 1:28.  It's repeated with the A note linking the phrases though, so it's more like |: A B C# B :|.