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Day One Hundred (Year Two)

Three things I'd like to touch on today.  No particular order to them, really, so I'll just dive in.

1) Tomorrow is the 1st of November.  A year ago I started in on "Stairway To Heaven."  This time around, I'm debating between two songs:  "Classical Gas," by Mason Williams (the solo acoustic version from Handmade), and Laurence Juber's version of "Maybe I'm Amazed."  Both are acoustic showpieces.  If I really wanted to get adventurous, I'd add the acousitc version of "Layla" to that potential mix of songs.  And, just for the record, if you made me pick an electric song, it'd be "Red House."  I've wanted to learn that fully for years.  I guess I'm really picking between four songs then, aren't I?

2)  After the rah rah nature of yesterday's post, I did get serious about working on the Vai Workout.  I started in on what will make up the 1st, 11th, and 21st hour of his 30 hour workout.  Not that I will do the entire 30 hours straightaway, but still.  Worked it through in small chunks at first, knowing that the best way to learn is not to have a monster session, but to work in smaller amounts and do more sessions.

3)  The third thing I want to mention tonight was just something fun I ran across online tonight.  It's billed on YouTube as the "Greatest Song Ever Written."  The girl who plays it (Beth, is her name) takes about 40 songs that all have the same chord progression, and ties individual lines from them into a single song.  It's brilliant in its own way, and it proves once and for all how many hit songs are written with the same 4 chords.  It's oddly inspiring, actually.

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