G what?

You know, there's a certain clarity that comes with lack of sleep, a point you reach where you're almost "in the zone" with everything you do. When there's nothing to mark days as separate units or entities, your perception of time becomes more of a flowing continuum rather than a collection of discrete, separate periods. Nature's rhythms of temperature and weather become more apparent; the behavior of animals becomes clearer; the behavior of people seems more artificial and reflexive, embedded more in their culture than in the reality of their physical world.

And this funny clarity is spilling over into other things. A conversation from last night:

Vocalist:  "What's that chord you played in the turnaround?"
Me:  "I dunno. D diminished something. Sorry."
Vocalist:  "No - what was it really?"
Me:  (fiddling with fingerings and trying to remember) "Um... well, I guess D half diminished flat nine. Or D minor seven flat five flat nine."
Vocalist:  "It's supposed to be G sus 4."
Me:  "Yeah, but this is tastier, the bass is playing a G, and you already had a high e-flat going on in the harmony vocals."
Vocalist:  "And this occurred to you how?"
Me:  "Um, I'm too tired to find a good Gsus?"

So it's starting to happen: I'm turning into that sleepy, slightly spaced-out session guitar player who pulls weird chords out of his butt during pop sessions because he can't remember the easy ones.

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