"Out of the Day"

Last week, I re-learned the opening guitar figure and the chords for "Out of the Day."  I was thinking about the song again yester-day, and I realized that in the line "Driving home; I'll soon be home" at the end of each verse, the "home"s are both song to the tonic note (D), the musical "home" of the key (D minor).  Usually, the first "home" is sung with a descending melisma (E D), and the second is sung to a single pitch (D), but near the end of the song, there are two "home"s sung with an ascending melisma (C D).

"Out of the Day"

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Yester-day I re-learned the opening guitar figure for "Out of the Day."  I'd learned it before but forgot about it or something.  I might not have recorded it before because the hammer-ons in the second phrase are troublesome (and they're still not very good here).  Last night, I also learned the chords.  The rhythm isn't accurate though.

I also learned part of the bass part, but not enough to include it here.  In some respects, it's a lot like the bass register of the organ part in "Butcher's Tale" in that it's mostly comprised of the notes D, E, and F.