Over the last couple months, I've been slowly writing out the notation for the bass part in "She." I finally finished it last week.
My notation starts when the bass part starts in the song, but there are a couple measures of solo guitar before this. As always, there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong.
Like I mentioned when I recorded the song last year, there's a single phrase in the second chorus (the last measure on the first page) that's different from the first and third choruses. I'm pretty sure the bass player (Larry Taylor, according the liner notes) just missed his cue; instead of the measure of four quarter notes (E F# G# B) that's in the first and third choruses, the bass continues playing the same thing as the preceding measures: half and quarter notes of E then a quarter note of B.
According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Monkees at the Circus" - the twenty-second episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (13 February 1967, incidentally Peter Tork's twenty-fifth birthday). It was written by Dave Panich, directed by Bruce Kessler, and featured the songs "She" and "Sometime in the Morning." Sandoval describes the plot as: "When an old-fashioned circus company faces extinction The Monkees step in to save the day."
According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Monkees a la Carte" - the eleventh episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (21 November 1966). It was written by Gerald Gardner, Dee Caruso, and Bernie Orenstein, directed by James Frawley, and featured the songs "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" and "She." Sandoval describes the plot as: "The Monkees monkey with a mobster's plot to take over a string of West Coast restaurants."
I don't know the introductory guitar figure perfectly yet (I know a couple notes, but I don't know what effect is going on there or how to achieve it), so I didn't include that. I listened to the original recording quite a few times, and I think the guitar drops out at the beginning of the chorus and then plays a tremolo on an E note. I'm still not very good at tremolos though, and because I played both an open E string and the E note on the fifth fret of the B string, it sounds a bit messy.
I probably could have included more of the organ part (I have just the solo), but while I know the chords, and I don't yet know how the organ plays them. In what rhythm and fingering, I mean.
I learned the bass part of this first, and then I learned the organ solo, and I was surprised to find that while the song is in E major, both the bass part and the organ solo include D natural notes in chromatic phrases (although they go different directions; the bass ascends from C# to E, and the organ descends from E to C#). That chromatic phrase is in the vocal too, so there's a strong coherence among the parts.
The bass figure after "Why am I standing here" is different in the second chorus. I actually think it's just a mistake and that it was supposed to have been the same as it is in the first and third choruses. I played it the same, partially because I think it sounds better and partially because I don't know how to play the erroneous version.
