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Day Seventy Four (Year Three)

I've had some great Skype-related conversations with my brother in the last twenty four hours.  Two of them, in fact.  In the first, we got to the bottom of a 5 year old musical mystery, only to discover that the chords involved are (in the end) a fairly normal G minor 7th, and an F chord with a suspended 4th.  The backstory on that is this: 5 years back, I was messing around with regular, 1st position chord shapes, but playing them up the neck.  I found a few that seemed to string together really well, and have kept returning to the germ of a progression that I found as time has gone by.  Every time I've tried to figure out what the chords actually are, however, both I and those I have asked have gotten confused during the process (mostly because of a few odd open strings that get thrown into the middle of the chords).  If the ringing of the open strings didn't completely make the overall sound of the progression, I'd have given up on it a long time ago.  Either way, we finally figured it out!

Let's see, what else happened today:

1) I found a couple of records by Melissa Ferrick at the thrift store today.  For $3 apiece, I picked up both Massive Blur and Willing To Wait.

2) We put together the bulk of what will make up the music for the wedding reception.  73 songs in total so far, with a few to buy off of itunes yet.  When all is said and done, we'll have about 5 hours of music lined up.

3) In the course of my conversations with my brother, we both reminisced about a great song by a band called The Gufs, out of Milwaukee.  It was the big single from their major label debut in '96.  The song's called "Smile," and if you were anywhere near alternative rock radio in the mid 90's then you're smiling because you know the song well.

Didn't really get around to much organizing today, but had a great day for music regardless.  Maybe tomorrow during the afternoon I can get down to some of that.  We shall see.

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