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Day Seventy Seven (Year Three)

Okay, so I was absolutely convinced that I wrote yesterday.  Then, just now, I went to check and see what I had written about, and discovered that, somehow, I missed blogging last night.  So, in order to keep up my "365 Posts in 365 Days," I need to take a moment to write a bit about what happened yesterday.

Most of my musical output concerned my Dave Grohl Challenge.  I sat with the acoustic for a while yesterday, and found 2 more song ideas.  One of which came out almost complete!  Well, okay, so it came out almost musically complete.  One of the two sounds a little bit like one of my earlier ideas, but I like this new one a bit better right now, so if push comes to shove, the newer one will win out in the end, I think.

I spent a bit of time yesterday listening to various solo acoustic performances, trying to get more perspective on how it is they manage to make their performances sound full when it's just them and their guitar on stage.  I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that my current project will end up mining that vein, so I'm trying to make sure that I learn enough to put my best foot forward.

I'm feeling pretty good about the DGC right now.  If I could find the time to actually sit down and work on the stuff that's already started, I think I'd be feeling even better about it.

And if I could find some lyrics to go along with everything?  Then I'd be feeling spectacular.

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