I’m in a shutdown-driven online collaboration with a dear friend of mine.
I’m in Minnesota, he’s in New York.
We’ve figured out a way to play together using Zoom, and are now casting our nets for material. One song that came up was Steve Winwood’s classic “Can’t Find My Way Home”.
Great, I thought. I can figure out some variation of the main guitar part, and the second guitar part. The wrinkle is that I primarily play in Open D (DADF#AD), but no matter, a triad’s a triad, and I’ve figured out some good variations - and the song is, as written, in D.
So, I report my progress to my buddy, and ask the pertinent question “can you sing this? Without any kind of surgical or medical assistance?”
To which his response was “yes, if I tune down a whole tone, and play it in C”
GRR. Back to the drawing board.
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