Once the music tracks had been put down, Anderson entered the studio early one morning and recorded his lead vocals. Wakeman's Hammond organ solo was recorded in one take. Anderson noted the music has a "Scottish feel" to it and described the solo part as like a reel, a traditional Scottish country dance. Apart from his acoustic guitar, Howe plays a 1961 electric Gibson ES-5 Switchmaster throughout the song. For the song's slower section, he plays a Minimoog synthesiser and flute sounds on a Mellotron which he said gave the section a " Strawberry Fields mood". To complement Squire's playing, Wakeman played arpeggios on his Hammond C3 organ on his right hand while playing Squire's bass parts with his left. Squire played his bass guitar parts with an overdub that was one octave higher using Howe's Gibson ES-150 electric guitar and mixed with his bass track.
An early idea had the song start with what Anderson described as "something of a Scottish jig" on Howe's acoustic guitar, which he had played to Anderson in their Glasgow hotel room. Howe thought the piano added a sense of drama, intensity, and colour to the song. Offord recalled a considerable amount of time was spent to get it right in the studio because it involved a lengthy process of picking the right note to use, and editing it correctly. Wakeman played the lowest E note on his grand piano with the E an octave higher which gave it "a fatter feel". This led to Wakeman playing a note on the piano that was recorded and played backwards, creating an effect that Howe described "as if it's rushing towards you". In its original form, the song began with the acoustic guitar, which Howe played on a 1953 Martin 00-18, but the group soon thought a more dramatic opening was needed. They had played it through in rehearsal several times, but Squire recalled the group would make sure to "get the first two verses really good" and record from there.
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The song was recorded in sections in a series of tape edits, a method of recording that was still relatively new to the group. "Roundabout" was a bit like that there was a structure, a melody and a few lines." In 1994, former Yes guitarist Peter Banks whom Howe replaced in 1970, claimed he had come up with the song's main riff several years prior to the band recording it. "All the ingredients are there-all that's missing is the song. Howe recalled the track was originally "a guitar instrumental suite" and had a basic outline worked out when he first developed it. Fragile contains four group-performed songs with five solo tracks written and arranged by each member "Roundabout" is one of such collaborative tracks. The rhythm tracks were recorded first, in separate sections. The group then moved to Advision Studios in September 1971 to record Fragile with audio engineer Eddy Offord as their co-producer, using a 16-track recording machine to layer their ideas at which point, Howe later said, "The song became pure magic". Early into the sessions, keyboardist Tony Kaye was fired from the group over his lack of interest in learning more keyboards to expand the band's sound, and was replaced by Rick Wakeman. In August 1971, Yes regrouped in London to prepare material for their fourth album, Fragile. Upon their arrival at their hotel in Glasgow, Anderson and Howe began to put down song ideas on their recorder. A loch they passed as they neared Glasgow became the idea behind the line "In and around the lake". Within 24 hours, the band had arrived back home in London where Anderson reunited with his then wife Jennifer, which inspired the song's lyric "Twenty-four before my love, you'll see, I'll be there with you". "I just loved how words sounded when I put them together". I remember saying, "Oh, the mountains–look! They're coming out of the sky!", and began to write the song's lyrics in his notebook in a free-form style with minimal edits.
We could only see the clouds because it was sheer straight up. Anderson added: "It was a cloudy day, we couldn't see the top of the mountains. Anderson had smoked cannabis during the trip, "so everything was vivid and mystical". They encountered many roundabouts on the way Anderson claimed "maybe 40 or so", which inspired Anderson and Howe to write a song about the journey as they sat in the back of the band's transit van, and include the roundabouts and the surrounding mountains into the lyrics. The song originated in March 1971 when the band were on tour promoting The Yes Album (1971), travelling from Aberdeen to Glasgow after a gig in Aviemore, Scotland.
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