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Day Three Hundred Fifty One (Year Three)

First things first: The Start Experiment officially begins on the 15th.  From there on out, it's 24 days of non-stop, head down, "can't hear you, in the music room, playing music" progress.

That being said, anything I can do to get some sort of a jumpSTART (see what I did there?) between now and next Monday seems like fair game.  So I sat down tonight and figured a few things out.  Things like, if I'm going to finish and record three songs in twenty four days, what sort of schedule am I going to have to stick to in order to make that happen?  Here's my answer:


And, with "Finish Progression" still on the list, I know that I can free up a lot of time if I can decide on which song ideas I'm going to use for this, and finish them (or at least one of them) in advance of Monday.

So in that spirit, I sat down with the acoustic tonight to see if I could make any progress in deciding.  I've got one for sure that is going to be a contender, and another one started that I really think might be the germ of the second one to make the cut.  As for the third song, I'm still very much up in the air about it.  That being said, it's only Wednesday, and I think that, by the time Sunday night rolls around, I'll have made my final decisions regarding all three songs.

Took the night off from the Buddy Holly tune to work on the EP side of things, but I'll get back to the grindstone on "That'll Be The Day" tomorrow for sure.

Great day!
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