Sunday, October 2, 2016

"The Fall of the House of Usher: IV. Pavane"

Backdated, archival post

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I listened to Tales of Mystery and Imagination yester-day.  When I listened to it a while ago, I thought the bass part in "The Fall of the House of Usher: Pavane" sounded like it would be pretty easy to figure out.  I also discovered that there's mandolin in this, and since I have a mandolin, I wanted to figure out that part.  I also got some of the keyboard parts.  Based on the credits on the APP website, I think there's harpsichord and (in the 1987 version) a synth that plays almost the same part; it's just the final note in the phrase that's different.

I don't have an upright bass, so I just played the bass part on electric bass, and I'm still not very good at mandolin tremolos, so those aren't that great.

Also, this is only one section of the song.  However, I did learn a couple guitar chords for a later iteration of the other section.