I do that all the time too, Iron, and the guitar definitely has something to do with it. Sometimes it hits me after I've listened to a song many times. I'll notice a nice guitar part, something I want to learn. I have an entire lists of 'songs I want to learn'. I play a song on WinAmp and hit repeat and play it over and over and over, until my teenage son can't take it anymore.
I find when I'm doing this, I block everything out, only listening to the guitar part. DQ was one of those songs where I was trying to figure out what the heck Red Shea was doing. I've seen Gord do DQ in concert several times, and noticed Terry capoed on the second fret, but I couldn't get it to work with Red's version of the lead. Then one day it just hit me that Red played it in a G progression instead of A, so I capoed it up to the 4th fret and it worked. I don't know if Red actually capoed it or not, but it sure sounds like he did.
The same thing happened years ago on If You Could Read My Mind. I remember wanting to learn that song back when I was a teenager, but could never figure out the G to Gadd9 switch. About 7 years ago, I was sitting in my living room in the dark with a few candles burning, playing this song over and over. I picked up my guitar and thought, "Okay. This isn't that hard," and figured it out in a split second. Weird how that happens. It happens two ways with me, either spur of the moment, or over the course of months, where the song just kind of evolves.
So, you see, if there's something wrong with you, then a bunch of us are suffering from the same affliction, and I have a feeling there is no cure!
Cathy
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