Hmm....there isn't enough beginner this month.
Ok, I've been a bit busy this month, and teacher has been touring Scotlanshire on a morobike, so I'm getting round to this late. I've taken the Mark Maxwell (Dr Saxlove) version as the basis as I love his sound. The backing is from his site.
I've used his backing track, but mostly the notes from Chris. Thankfully it's in the same key as the notes from Chris, so I didn't need to migrate it. I have refactored a few of the notes to fit in with something close to what Mark is playing, mostly things like he has an extra D before the G, A, B riffs. The long D on the third line starts off with a C, C#, D...etc. But I think mostly its the same.
No cheating on this one, it's all one single recording, but I have been practising by playing along to the Mark Maxwell version on YouTube. In my mind, I can hear him when I'm playing...sadly when I listen back to it I hear a kazoo
Towards the end of the first verse it goes wrong, I haven't learned that bit yet really. There's also a couple of other places that I play the wrong note...sorry

After the end of the first verse...I kinda go into free-play...Just playing some odd notes to fill in the time.
err...it's quite late, this will almost certainly sound a lot worse in the morning than it does now

in fact I'll probably delete it in the morning
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/97346875/This Masquerade.mp3
Why is there an A# in line 8? Bb is in the key, then it goes to and A natural...I'm lost. I kina understand some of the theory as to why it's sometimes called Bb and other times A#, but I'm lost here, it just seems more confusing to call it A# when Bb is in the key, especially when it's followed by an A.
I kinda grew up listening to the Carpenters version of this, my parents played it a lot. I didn't really know the other versions until recently. My teacher tried to get me to appreciate the George Benson version but I'm afraid that just flew straight by me...I really don't get this singing 'doo be doo be doo' when you're playing.