"Midnight Blue"

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Two days ago, I learned most of the bass part for "Midnight Blue."  Last night I did some more work on it, and I thought I had it figured out, but when I tried recording it this afternoon, I kept messing up just because I couldn't remember where I was in the song.  So I notated the whole thing, and - in doing so - I realized that I actually had a few parts wrong.

I'm still unsure of a phrase in the chorus:

With those eighth note phrases, I might be projecting a tonality onto a percussion part.  Also, I'm pretty sure there are A notes both times (2nd and 6th measures), but the second pair sounds really different (originally, I thought they were C notes), which I'm assuming is because of the surrounding notes, so I'm interested to find out what those are.

The bass starts halfway through the first verse, so the beginning sounds a bit off.