Obsessive AND Compulsive
Hey, at least I don't wash my hands 30 times a day or count telephone poles.
I do, however, get a little carried away. Late last night I was still trying to track down the mystery chord that someone gave me for Colin Meloy's cover of Joanna Newsom's Bridges and Balloons. Between me and this other guy, and the video of the June show in Austin, we were convinced it was G and a variation of G. He said G6. I said G/B. After even more obsessive study we concluded it was, in fact, G6, played 302003. (Each verse of the song is either G--320003--or G6, which involves moving the index finger from the A to the D string at the second fret, a pretty simple trick that marvelously varies and fleshes out the otherwise repetitive sound.) The crazy thing was that I couldn't find any version of G6 that was played that way in any of my chord dictionaries. So I decided it must be a different chord. I went to a chord-finding site and it said that those notes make a chord called A7sus4 or G6add9. Maybe. But then I checked up on those chords and no variations had those notes at those places. Finally I found a site that listed all kinds of variations for chords, not just a couple for each. And there it was! I could have spent the last 2 weeks not worrying about this and simply played it the way he said (and believed what he said), but I had to KNOW. These things keep me up at night.