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Day Seventy One (Year Three)

First rehearsal tonight with the praise band.  I really was going to just sit and listen.  Until none of the songs they picked actually had the canned music they've been using.  So, while I didn't play for the performance part, I definitely played along a bit at rehearsal.  It helps to have a guitar stored at the church in these instances.  Apparently they were impressed with my ability to pick things up at the drop of a hat.

As an added bonus, they said it was totally up to me whether I used the acoustic or the electric during the performances... they've got an amp and an effects pedal that someone had left there years ago.  So, I imagine that at some point in the next week or so, I'll wander into the church after hours, with my Strat, and test everything out.

After I got home tonight, I skyped with my brother, and we got to talking about Circle II by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.  We grew up with that album, on family vacations and road trips, and I'm not sure either one of us really appreciated it for how awesome of a record it is until we got older.  Anyway, S. was trying to learn "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" tonight, and we figured out that it's in the key of A, and learned it that way.  Then I remembered that I've got a program on my NOOK that lets you input a chord progression, and see what the chords would end up as if you put a capo on any of the frets.  We both figured out that the progression was a whole lot easier to play if we put the capo at the second fret.  Good times.

Spent a bit of time on the Grohl Challenge today, but not enough to make any substantial progress.

I'll probably go to the jam session tomorrow night.  Even if I have to go by myself.  If I do, you'll get a paragraph about that tomorrow night.

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