Showing posts with label Cool Cool Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cool Cool Water. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

"Cool, Cool Water"

In "Cool, Cool Water," there's the line "From the mountains on down to the sea" (this is specific to the Sunflower version; this section isn't in the SMiLE Sessions versions).  I'm not sure if this line is meant to describe the journey that water makes or whether it identifies the variety of locations in which "Cool water keeps on coolin' me."  If it's the second reading, though, "From the mountains on down to the sea" is a merism.

Sunday, March 5, 2017

"Cool, Cool Water"

Last month, I learned the bass part for the first section of the version of "Cool, Cool Water" that's on the Sunflower album.  Recently, I notated it (after re-learning what I'd forgotten and discovering that I'd been playing some notes in the wrong octave), and then I compared it to the version from The SMiLE Sessions (the one labelled "version 2").  It's pretty much the same.  The SMiLE Sessions version alternates between Bb and F for a few more measures, and a G note that's a single half note in the Sunflower version is two notes in The SMiLE Sessions version:  a dotted quarter note and an eighth note.

Since it's just one part, I'm not going to record a version (I decided it's not worth it unless I know two simultaneous parts), so here's the notation: