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Day Three Hundred Sixty Two

As it turned out, today was the day to ponder/figure out the Double Drop D progression.  I headed out into the sweltering heat this afternoon to run a few errands on a day off, and in the process I stumbled upon a recording of the older demos amongst the pile of CDs that was in the car.  I was intending to listen to the whole thing, but after the first couple of songs, it dawned on me that this might be a good time to check out that progression.  It was all I listened to while I was out and about, and I came to at least one solid conclusion about the progression as a whole: it's too long.

My other immediate thought was that certain parts of the song play through more times than I remembered, while others (namely, what we had considered to be the chorus five years ago) don't necessarily play through enough times to merit their distinction.  Whether or not this confirms J.'s original theory that the song was perhaps in need of splitting in two remains to be seen.  What it means to me, at least in the immdeiate, is that at the very least, the song needs to be condensed somehow.  I talked with B. tonight about this very thing, and we both agreed that the part that we like the best is the original chorus.  We both admitted that this preference didn't mean that we liked the rest of the song any less, it just meant that, if we could only pick one of the two parts, we'd pick the chord progression in the middle. 

I'm still puzzled as to why it repeats fewer times than what we considered the verses all those years ago.

On the bright side, I figured out what it was I was playing!  This was most important for the main riff other than the chorus.  Now that I've got that down again, I'm going to split up the "verses" and the "chorus" and see if they turn into other things on their own or not.  Also, recording tomorrow afternoon/evening!

I think B. is worried we won't have enough music to pick from.  I'm less worried about that at this point than I am about having enough done in advance, so that it's easier for us to finish what we need to finish.

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