Friday, November 4, 2016

The Shadows' "Driftin'"

Last month, I listened to The Very Best of the Shadows and decided to figure out the bass part for "Driftin'."  I'm actually more familiar with (and might even prefer) a live version that's included on a couple Cliff Richard compilation albums I have, but I discovered that that version is in between E minor and F minor, which made figuring it out too difficult.  The version on The Very Best of the Shadows is firmly E minor though (with some C# accidentals).  After figuring it out, I wrote out the notation too.  All of my notation comes with the disclaimer that I might be wrong, I feel I should stress that a bit more for this one. While writing it out, I found a few parts I'd misheard, and there are some slight variations in it, rather than repeated sections.  Additionally, I think there's an error where there's a D note played as a quarter note instead of two D notes played as eighth notes.  In any case, take this with a grain of salt:


There are a few empty measures at the end because I mark out all of the bar lines on a sheet before I start filling in the notes.