A couple days ago, I was writing out notation for what I know of the bass part of "Early Morning Blues and Greens." (And, of course, while doing so, I found that I had some errors in
my recording.) Because I was already at the
Headquarters album in my music collection, I tried figuring out some of the bass part for "You Told Me." I'd figured out a bit of it before, but not to a high enough degree of accuracy. (And on a different occasion, I figured out the chords, but I didn't feel they were worth posting about on their own.) In any case, I realized that - for large sections - the bass parts for "You Told Me" and "Early Morning Blues and Greens" have the same rhythm:
I just put the notes on the middle line so that they're centered; the rhythm is what's relevant here, not the pitch.
It's not a very common rhythm (I'm pretty sure I haven't run across this rhythm in any other bass parts, and there seem to be some pretty common rhythms in bass parts), and it's a musical element that provides a bit of cohesion to the
Headquarters album. It's unsurprising then that - according to the liner notes of the deluxe edition of the album - both bass parts were played by Chip Douglas.
