Wednesday, April 27, 2016

"(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"

Backdated, archival post

[link to original on tumblr]

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This morning I listened to the first disc of The Essential Alan Parsons Project for my Collection Audit project.  I still have to write a post about something I noticed in "Snake Eyes" (which I'll reblog here), but first, I figured out the recurring guitar phrase in "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether."  As I was listening to it, it sounded pretty easy; the only difficulty (which wasn't even that difficult) was determining that one of the notes is bent.

I doubled-tracked this, mostly because my tone doesn't match that well and I thought double-tracking it would help, but I think it might be that way in the original too.