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Day Fifty Four (Year Three)

Early post today, we're headed down to DSM because SL's brother and his wife had their baby today!

Okay, now that the awesome news is out of the way, let me take a moment and focus on music stuff for a second here before we dash away.

Song ideas for me always start as flashes.  I'll glance at one of my guitars and think, "oooh, I should use this chord," or "I bet putting a capo here would sound cool," or something along those lines.  Between last night's post and now, it's been "one of the songs for the DGC project needs to be capoed at 1."

That's always where the idea starts.  Whether it actually stays there once I've started writing is up to fate (and sound), but it's the glimmer of a beginning that's important. 

The only other thing I knew about this latest idea is that it started with a C chord.  So, going off of that, and knowing that I didn't want to make use of the C9 that is my usual go-to, I dove in for just a few minutes before SL got here to pick me up.  It's amazing what added pressure will do to speed up the creative process, because in just those few minutes with the guitar, I found the germ of what, in a perfect world, will be the 4th song idea for this record I guess I'm working on.  It's just a couple of chords, but from there I managed to work my way into a second section, so this one might actually have the start of a verse and a bit of the chorus, or a bridge or something.  We shall see.

All I've really got to do is make note of the progression before we leave, and then I'll feel at least a little bit better about the rather brief time limit I had for today.

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