The Turn of a Friendly Card Deluxe Edition

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35th Anniversary Deluxe edition of 'The Turn of a Friendly Card' will be released on 6th November 2015. 2CD package includes re-mastered original album, 17 previously unreleased bonus tracks (including Eric Woolfson's songwriting diary home demos) plus 10 bonus tracks and new booklet with lyrics, notes on the making of the album and rare photos. 2CD and Standard Digital format will be available as well as a Limited Edition vinyl 7" of three single edits.

"One Good Reason"

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An-other one of the parts from Ammonia Avenue that I thought would be pretty easy to figure out is the bass part in "One Good Reason."  The rhythm was actually the hardest part.  This is just the first two verses, although I ended on a D note for the first bridge ("I keep making the same mistake…").  I don't think there's a "proper" bass part for the bridges, but there's a repeated D note in the bottom register of a synth part.

The bass parts during the rest of the song are pretty much the same as those that I have in my recording, so I didn't play through the whole song.

"Don't Answer Me"

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I listened to Ammonia Avenue this morning, and I tried to pick out some parts that would be pretty easy to figure out.  I started with the glockenspiel part of "Don't Answer Me" (at least I think it's glockenspiel; the credits on their website don't list glockenspiel specifically, but there is just general "percussion").  I figured out only the parts during the choruses (although I'm not too confident in the last two phrases).

The chords came pretty easily too, although I'm unsure of one in the later part of the chorus.

My recording is just the first minute and a half or so because it would have been boring otherwise, since I know only the chords and a short glockenspiel part.

I found it interesting that the verses start with a C major to A minor modulation, which is the difference of only one note (C, E, G to C, E, A) and the choruses do the same thing, albeit with C major to E minor (C, E, G to B, E, G).