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Day Two Hundred Ninety One

I can tell that working on the hard rock record on a regular basis is helping my musical approach. I was going through the progression that I was working on last night, and found myself wishing I could hear those chords on piano. Some part of that, I'm sure, was the cool conversation I had with a customer at work tonight regarding music writing and the piano, but still... sometimes I wonder how much easier it would be for me songwriting-wise if I had some basic knowledge of piano, and a keyboard of some kind at my disposal.

I've also spent the last twelve hours or so pondering whether or not we have a double album in the ideas we have, or maybe it's two full albums, or perhaps we have a single album and a longer EP, or even a series of EPs and no full length. The whole thought process started off when I realized that at least 5 of the ideas are things we've never been able to make fit with the other music we have. Some of the reason for that could likely be that the 5 aren't complete songs yet... but we have tried to make them complete before, and not had the kind of success we would have liked. Right now, depending on how things break, I'm liking the multiple EP idea, but thinking we will end up with a full album and an EP.

Picked up Warren Haynes' new solo disc today. Haven't had a chance to really listen to it yet. Love his playing. This reminds me, in between all of the stuff going on tomorrow, I should go back to his DVD.

Off to sit with the acoustic for a bit before going to bed.

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