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What the Soul Wants

from Norwegian Wood by Gregg Miner

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Performed on Merrill harp guitar #14.
The chorus of this tune came to me in a dream – yes, a cliché, but the first and only successful time for me in all my musical life. It was apparently the soundtrack to one of those long, meandering dreams that you can’t remember when you wake up. Of course, in the cold light of day, the “the greatest melody in the world” that your dream state created invariably turns out to be terrible. Nevertheless, as I slowly drifted awake, I forced myself to continue playing the theme in my head to retain it (a simple melody over simple tonic notes). I quickly stumbled into my recording closet in my pajamas, with just enough brain cells firing to think to turn on the machine, hit REC, and quickly find the notes on a handy harp guitar. Later, fully awake, I was stunned to find that I loved it as my dream-self did. I then worked backwards to imagine what would have come before to get the verse. The basic chorus remains exactly as dreamt. Letting the bridge (C section) just sort of come, it then finished itself.

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from Norwegian Wood, track released November 25, 2017

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Gregg Miner Los Angeles, California

Gregg Miner is a plucked stringed instrument collector, scholar, recording artist and performer, best known for his work with harp guitars. For more, visit his 3 web sites!

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