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Day Forty Four (Year Six)

Today was a better day.

Just to get it out of the way quickly: I stopped and picked up Volume 8 of the Dylan Bootlegs this afternoon, which completes my set (for now).  Somehow, that's exciting, and between all of that and the Zeppelin reissues, I could have all of my listening set for the rest of the year.

Now, on to the fun part of the day...

I was mulling over my issues with what I'd like to be the opening track for the EP on the way down to church this morning.  Somewhere during that process, my mind made note of an idea that I had put down over a drum loop at least four years ago.  It wasn't all that much to write home about back then, 30-45 seconds of music dropped over some drums that a co-writer had sent me.  An idea that, essentially, went nowhere at the time.  I, however, save everything when it comes to recording, so tonight I went digging back through everything in search of this small clip of music.  Somewhat surprisingly, it didn't take me too long to hunt it down, and when I played it back, it was similar in nature to the intro that I have (and love), but just different enough that it will serve as a verse and/or chorus progression.  I've got a potential bridge idea as well, but I want to sit on it overnight just to make sure everything still sounds good in the morning before I get too excited about it.

Slowly but surely, the pieces are falling into place.

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