Friday, January 18, 2019

"Latitude 88 North"

In December 2017, I learned the bass part and the rest of the chords for "Latitude 88 North."  I think it was sometime in early summer when I finished writing out the notation for the bass part, and I intended to make a recording of it, but I kept forgetting or not having time.  At least now it's winter, which is seasonally appropriate for the theme of the song.


Here's the notation of the bass part, with the guitar chords written in above the staff (as always, there's the disclaimer that I might have something wrong):


The electric guitar in my recording isn't meant to be entirely accurate.  I'm pretty sure I have the solo right though; here it is in tablature (tildes [~] indicate glissandi):

B|---3-5-5~7-7-5-7~3-3-|---3-5-5~6-6-5-5---|-----3-3~4-4-4~3-|
G|-4-------------------|-4---------------5-|-4-5-------------|

I recorded the electric guitar part in one take, switching between pick-ups for the solo section, which I usually never do, and because of that, my timing is off a little bit.

Also, a bit of commentary: I don't remember when I noticed this, but coinciding with the line "Thirty-five below and fallin'" in the chorus, the bass line descends, musically giving a sense of the (metaphorically) "fallin'" temperature.