I Did What??

Ever wake up from a drunk and have someone tell you something outrageous you did the night before? Many of you may have never had that happen, in fact I never have. I think it's because I generally have a good memory, though. I can recall a couple of times asking myself that question.

Mom, if you're reading, the previous paragraph is completely hypothetical. I've never had too much to drink in my life. Now you can keep up that myth that I'm somehow perfect and never been in trouble.

Now, as all of that is a past life, I still have those moments. Case-in-point: Sunday night I was going over some music, all of which I had agreed to play and is pretty well set in stone. One of the songs I chose based on having learned it several years ago and recalling it to be easy to play on the guitar. Given I have learned a lot about the guitar in my years in Nashville, I figured anything I played before I moved here would be super-easy to pull off now. Right? Wrong.

You see once I started playing it, as I had learned it several years ago, I realized I had learned it from an E-Z chord book. While the intervals I was playing were basically right, they were really missing something... they were in the wrong key. First chore, find the right key.

I was playing in e minor, and while this was nice and easy to play, I could tell I was way too high. A little experimenting and I had it. Can you guess? OK, so not everyone is musical, but I'll go ahead and float this out there... it's in c# minor. Let me put it in layman's terms; if you play piano c# minor is fine, but the guy who wrote this had to be a sadist to write c# minor for the guitar.

Once I got the key, I transposed the chords and realized I was still missing something. The chords in the song had more depth than I was playing. I went through them, there were extra notes all over the place, 7ths, 9ths, diminished, suspended, whatever weird you could throw in was there. I'm not playing this, no way.

Problem is, like I said earlier, I've already agreed to play the song. Did I mention when? This Sunday. Less than a week, plus it's Easter. I did what? Yep, I did that. Now I hope I have sufficient time to practice!

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Update on Gray- He's doing great. He has an appointment with the doctor today and should get his cast. That will be great, it's hard to hold him back. The splint he's in now holds his arm snugly, but it does not offer the protection that such a wild animal needs for a break of such significance.

Another funny thing about that... His brother has figured out he has a distinct advantage now. Back in the fall, with Gray's last break, Tracy never figured out he had an advantage. This time he's figured it out and is taking all sorts of liberties with it. Maybe in the next couple of days I'll expound on that in a post. It's really all too funny.