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Day One Hundred Seventy Seven

What a great day! I got up at a reasonable time, spent some time with the acoustic, watched a fantastic music documentary, and wound down with a bit of electric.

1) The time spent with the acoustic basically consisted of me banging my head against the glimmer of an idea that I got yesterday. I didn't get very far, and I'm still mostly convinced that the idea, even in its current form, is way too major in tonality for the project as it was. Times and ears change, though, so I'll give myself a bit of time to work out the details.

2) As for the fantastic music documentary, it was "Barenaked In America," a doc about Barenaked Ladies directed by Jason Priestley that was released back in '99. I saw it once when it came out, and have looked for it everywhere in the 12 years in between. Always to no avail, until tonight, when, having finally signed up for Netflix, it was one of the first things to roll across my screen.

3) When it comes to the electric, it was mostly scales, as a way to wind down from the day. And yes, I know this violates my "acoustic first" pledge, but I also wanted to make time for both the acoustic and the electric in my day, and running a few scales on the electric accomplished that, so I'm not going to feel bad about it in the slightest.

All in all, a wonderful day.

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