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Day Two Hundred Ninety Three

So, Blogger was down all day yesterday, otherwise there would have been a post. Going to pull double duty today in order to make up for it, though! Yesterday's news is two-fold.

1) Nailed down what I think will be the chorus for one of the hard rock progressions I've been working on. As much as I liked it last night, I liked it just as much this morning, which is a good sign. The tune sort of feels like it might need another section, but we shall see. It's got a verse progression and a chorus progression, so for now, I'm moving forward.

2) As of Saturday, B. graduates. We texted back and forth yesterday, and she is so excited to be done, so she can focus on her music. This means (and I know, because I asked her as much) that, come Monday, we are starting to work on the hard rock stuff in an official capacity! Eeek! Seems like every spare moment between now and Monday will be spent working on music stuff, which is just the way I like it!

That's the big stuff... started working on an idea we had in D minor too, but only had a few minutes. I'll probably keep going with that, and add a few more things to it tonight, so there will likely be updates on that later on when I actually post for TODAY!

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