No problem waking up this morning, to say the least. The cat puked up a hairball and all its associated bile on the bed. No time to ruminate on any dreams I might have been having at the time, although I did have two lingering images that seem associated with whatever was going on in my sleep. One had something to do with a little league baseball game. The other was a question about what exactly a "diphthong" is. Anyway, it was before dawn and I really wasn’t ready to get up, so after doing a preliminary rinse on the bed linens in preparation for laundering later in the morning, I threw the spare blanket on the bed and climbed back in, accompanied by a cat with a conveniently short memory. Not sure I slept, perhaps dozed a little, but got the extra rest I needed.
One lesson at noon.
A number of things to take care of this afternoon, so I canceled the weekly afternoon rehearsal, which I hate to do, especially at the last minute. In addition I need to make time to keep placing the postcards. They ain’t going to attract any attention in my backpack.
Not getting a lot of practice done right now. The promotion push seems to be taking a lot of that energy, which I suppose is okay for a short burst, but I the long view I really need to find a balance so that it isn’t an either/or proposition.
On the other hand, I stumbled on to a completely different approach to Wang Dang Doodle that could possibly have promise. A more complex guitar figure, which makes singing and playing that much trickier. But it has the virtue of being neither a dumbed-down version of the UBB arrangement, nor a trio rendition of the original Howlin’ Wolf arrangement, which is the approach I have been taking recently. It is also in A instead of E, which could give me some vocal space that I haven’t had. We shall see, assuming I actually carve out some time to practice. You lose the fun (seriously, I mean it, I love this stuff) of the “drop a beat turnaround” from Wolf’s version, which we incorporated in the UBB version with a vengeance, but it has its own rhythmic idiosyncrasies that keep it in the spirit I think.
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