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Day One Hundred Thirty Four (Year Two)

I spent the entire day thinking about having tomorrow off so I can spend the day working on the binder.  It makes me happy to think that the very basics are covered, but I'm starting to uncover sections that will need to be added in.   Here's what I've discovered in my thinking today.

1) There needs to be a Beatles section.  Or something to that effect, anyway.  I've got the complete scores for everything they've ever done.  I've got every studio album they ever recorded.  I've got a few cool new magazines on them actually in the studio.  I refuse to believe that I can't learn about a bazillion useful things from making them an extended point of study.

2) There needs to be a songwriting section.  For a few reasons, actually.  The biggest of which is that I haven't done (or even tried to do) nearly enough of that in the last 4 months or so.  That makes me sad, so it's going in the binder.  Somewhere in there, I'm certain that the songwriting portion and the Beatles portion will make friends.

3) There will be separate sections for acoustic playing AND electric playing.  Gotta cover everything, now don't I?

4) There will most definitely be a section that focuses in on learning from DVDs.  I've gotten so many of them in the last few years, just from magazines alone, that it would be odd if there wasn't some content included from that side of things.

It's possible I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here, but I'm really just trying to plan it out as much as I can.  I've still got some early steps to finish off tomorrow, and a decision to make regarding a lot of the magazine articles... how best to reproduce them for the binder?  Should be fun tomorrow, at any rate.

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