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Day Three Hundred Fifty Four (Year Two)

A little more blues on the docket today. 

I ran through the various backing tracks for Clapton's version of "I'm Tore Down."  Hadn't done that in a month or so.  It was good.  There are a couple of really cool riffs in there that get even sweeter when you sit with them for long enough to let your hands just relax.

I've also got a small Blues Guitar book that Hal Leonard put out a number of years back.  It's got lessons and songs in it, with a CD in the back for enhanced learning.

I've been thinking about various units of study for the last day or so.  Along with the Beatles unit, there's definitely going to be a blues unit.  I just can't decide whether to include jazz & swing in with blues, or whether to make that a separate area of study.

I'm starting to wonder whether or not I'll end up with a publishable book for the teaching of guitar out of this.  Not in any serious way, mind you, not yet, but in that far off, distant kind of way.  It's an interesting thought, that's to be sure.

Tomorrow's post might be an early one, as SL and I have a wedding to go to.  Not sure how much time I'll be gone tomorrow, and therefore not sure if I'll end up with time to post at the end of the day.  We shall see.

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