This evening, I figured out the brass part at ~2:22 in "May Be a Price to Pay." (Later, I lookt in my file and discovered that I'd already figured this out.) In notating it, though, I realized that there are a few elements in it that illustrate how "something's wrong" (the lyrics that are sung at the same time).
I think the part is something like this:
The song is in D minor, but there are some accidentals here. (I don't know if it's technically correct to mix the accidental signs, but I notated them as Eb and C#). In every other measure, the brass plays on the off-beats, and this also contributes to a sense of something wrong.
I figuring out the whistling at the beginning of "The Gold Bug," and in doing so, I realized that it's the same melody that's played on brass at the beginning of "May Be a Price to Pay." I'd never noticed that before.
In "May be a Price to Pay," that melody is in D minor, and in "The Gold Bug," it's in A minor with a few extra trills. So it's not exactly the same, but essentially it's the same melody.
A couple weeks ago, I learned the opening brass part and most of the bass part (I haven't figured out all of the subtleties) for "May Be a Price to Pay." (I was sort of dismayed to find that - if I have it right - the opening brass part has parallel fifths, which are generally frowned upon.) However, I didn't record what I knew because those two parts don't overlap, and I decided that from now on, I'm not going to bother recording anything unless I know at least two simultaneous parts. So yester-day, I figured out some more parts. First I got the brass part in the middle, which is basically the same as some of the guitar and piano parts, and then I got a few more of the guitar and piano parts. I think the guitar and piano parts during the verses play pairs of notes, of which I have only one, but it's a start.
Of the instrumental section, I know only the bass part, so that's not that interesting in my recording. I think I flubbed a few notes there too, but when I tried to re-record that part, I was doing even worse than what I was trying to improve upon, so I just left it. I had problems with matching the rhythm of the opening brass part too. It's probably pretty obvious, but I used the fake trumpet setting on my keyboard.
