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With such a simple but pleasing (to me) original arrangement, it was hard to imagine anything much different. This instrumental has two identically-structured halves … the conceipt was to give them two totally different feels.

The melancholic first half

My left-hand fingers being less nimble than 20 years prior, I thought I’d be able to separately record each of the required small sections to a click track and create a good composite via editing … but I found it sounded really lacklustre. So I kept practicing until I could play the whole first-half piece through, and played it ‘loose’ (no click track). A couple of small flubs were fixed relatively easily.

The lively second half

The guitar is all chunk-a-chunk strumming and was done in a single take. On the original, due to a bad mistake on guitar (which was dropped), a 2-bar section featured only the bass guitar … but this contrast sounded great. I’ve re-created this ‘change’ several times using different combos of drum, guitar, bass and piano.

The new version:

• Adds percussion
• Adds violin
• Uses MIDI bass guitar (vs real bass played by the engineer in the original)
• Has more ornamentation in the piano part
• Has a new definitive ending vs a fade out