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Dulltown, UK: Today's giraffe is the one rescuing cats and kittens stranded in tree tops.
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Hm, do you like today's title, dear reader?
It's when you have the TV on, but you are not gripped, watching what's going on in the show; but you have a guitar on your lap, and you are fiddling and poking with notes and chords.
When I was young, and I had my first guitar, I was given a slim How To Play the Guitar book. It wasn't very good, but I didn't know that, at that time. It had a picture of a young thin chap, in a suit, with a big shiny guitar, he had Brylcreemed hair, and a small smile on his face.
The main idea of the book was to get you to lean to read music - so that one day, you might get a job in a jazz band. What a silly idea! Leaning to read music is really very hard - I never even considered it. I was going to be a 'blues man' and possibly a 'rock and roll' man. They didn't read music!
Reading music? Ha!...
In the book, apart from all the pages of bars and dots, there were a few diagrams of chords. These were useful. Apart from the obvious ones, there were some things, which caught my eye, called diminished chords. They had a nice, pleasing shape too. Four fingers placed very close together, When you strummed them, they sort of hung in the air, as if there was something, very special, due to follow them.
They sounded nice, but I didn't know any songs, tunes, with one of them in it.
Actually, much later on, I spotted two blues tunes with a diminished in them. One of them was Nobody Knows You When You Are Down and Out. The chord sounds very good and meaningful in that one! It is more jazz than blues, though.
Oh look, on the TV there are some wobbling, blurred shots of the dead bodies on somebody's carpets, and the detectives are creeping about labelling important things, clues, I expect. Perhaps I should grab my pen and write down a few snatches of conversation - you know, for a future blog post.
A 911 call - an unwanted admirer - technicians looking for clues - at the crime scene - a pattern of stains - the bureau legs? - re-examine the bathroom - no one believed his story - sexually motivated - it was just before the floor tiles - was he caught in a lie? - to dig in, a little deeper - how he made his getaway - the shattered circumstances - she picked out the man's face - hair! - fibers (fibres) - marks there on the door jamb! - only circumstantial - the case would eventually take a dramatic turn - a high degree of certainty! - he was telling us, at this moment of time - any of the risk factors - in his areas of comfort - a surly individual - she had her friends - but then, at the time the dog didn't! - I slapped the cuffs on! - the same perpetrator - much smarter than everyone else! - no remorse - thirty years to life - to try to beat the system - unemotional.
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