Friday, July 1, 2016

The Dave Clark Five's "I Need Love"

A couple weeks ago, I listened to The History of the Dave Clark Five.  I wanted to figure out the bass part to "Don't Let Me Down" (because I thought it followed a pretty common paradigm, which it does; hopefully, it'll be the notation I post next week), and I got my bass out even before the first disc was over.  Sort of by accident, I figured out the bass part for "I Need Love" (the last track on the first disc) while waiting for the disc to finish.  The majority is just the same four notes repeated over and over again:

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I wrote this out by hand because I don't know how to insert the squiggly lines that indicate glissandi in the MIDI in my DAW.

I probably could have shortened the second line (I have the four-bar phrase, and then the same four-bar phrase within repeat signs, which is sort of redundant), but I thought it might be a bit more clear (as far as what note has a glissando to which) the way I have it here.  And then, since the bass part repeats, I just repeated what I had.

I hadn't realized until I started notating that the last G in that repeated four-bar phrase has a glissando back to the first C.  Because of that, it seems like that four-bar phrase is played on only one string.