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Day Three Hundred Thirty Six (Year Three)

Taught today.  My student was a lot more focused this week than she has been for a while, which was impressive to me.  We covered a lot of ground, and I ended up giving her a lot to work on in the next week.  One of my favorite moments of the week got a chance to happen tonight: while my student was unpacking her guitar and getting her stuff in order, I had a minute, maybe two, to sit and play with whatever chords happened to be underneath my fingers at that moment.  Tonight it was a progression that had the capo at the 7th fret.  The back story here is simply that we had been taking a look at "Here Comes The Sun" last week, and so that seemed to me like a logical place to begin.  Anyway, I found a cool sound in an A minor shape that led into a G chord.  Another one of my patented flashes of something that has yet to be fleshed out in a concrete manner.

Played a bit of electric tonight, too, once I got home.  It was nice to have both the acoustic and the electric in my hands on the same day.  Felt like that hadn't happened in a while.

Got a few other, more mundane, things done tonight as well:

1) Imported the Springsteen, Tom Waits, & Drive By Truckers from Saturday.
2) Went through itunes and pulled up some of the missing album artwork.  Not having that stuff as squared away as I possibly can bugs me sometimes.

For an exhausting day, I still felt like I got at least a couple things accomplished.  Hopefully tomorrow is a quicker day, with more time at the end of it for rock & roll.

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