I have over a dozen musical projects, but I'm adding an-other one, which in some ways is a combination of elements from two others. For about four years now, I've been trying to learn every part to every song by the Zombies (although I know I never will), and recently I started posting some of the chord progressions and notation. From late 2012 to early 2015, I recorded a hymn every week to try to familiarize myself with notation.* I've gotten better at knowing where the notes go on the staff, but the note values still give me problems sometimes. So in an attempt to get better at that aspect of notation, I'm going to try to write out the notation for a part of a song every week (on Fridays). The other projects** I have in the same vein as my Zombies project (trying to figure out a band's entire catalogue) are excepted from this, although I should start doing this same thing within each of those projects.
I have only three parts planned so far***, and I know I won't be able to do this every week, so it's likely that I'll often just post chords (or maybe even a tab) instead. When I first started learning to play guitar, I was dismayed by how often I lookt up the chords for a particular song I wanted to learn to play and either didn't find it or found a chord progression that had a lot of errors in it.**** I'm under no delusions about how much traffic my blog gets, but there's still a possibility that my posting something will be helpful. If nothing else, it's a resource that I can use myself.
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*in January I revived and revised this project into Lyres, Harps, and Cymbals, which is about sacred music in general
**see this page for more on these
***of these three, two are bass parts, which is a trend I'll probably continue inadvertently; bass parts just seem easier to notate
****I can still remember finding something that said the chord progression for the Zombies' "The Way I Feel Inside" was the common group of I IV V vi chords in G major, but - after having figured it out myself - I know that it's in B major and a lot more complex than just I IV V vi
