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Day Two Hundred Eighty Five (Year Two)

It's always funny to me, the ideas that just keep coming back.  The ones that nag at the back of your mind.  The ones that your fingers just refuse to forget.  In sitting down to play today before work, I had one of those spring up once again.  It has always felt like a band idea, but somehow it has never really manifested itself in an idea that has turned into a song we're going to be able to make work.  This gives me pause to wonder why the idea keeps whispering to me.  I found myself wondering today on the way to work whether or not it has to do with the key that the song is in.  The riff is in G, which knowing B.'s taste in songwriting, means it's really in the key of G minor.  That's been a tough write for some reason.  I'm wondering now whether or not capoing at, say, the second fret, and putting the song in A minor would make it any easier to write around.

Swapped out my defective copy of Runnin' Down A Dream tonight.  Haven't sat down and watched it to see if I can actually make it all the way through yet, but when I have a 4 hour block of time free, you can bet that I'll give it a good shot.

The playing was good today.  It felt like a stepping stone that I've needed for, in all reality, about two weeks now.  The last couple of weeks have been rough for me, playing-wise.  For whatever reason, there just hasn't been a lot of time for playing.  I get that those stretches are going to happen in life, that sometimes it's going to be rough, and I know I'll get through it, but I'll be the first to admit that they frustrate me sometimes.  Then again, nothing ever gets done unless you put in the work and the time, right?

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