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Day Fourteen (Year Four)

Last day of the Start Experiment today.

So, I listened back to last night's guitar track, and it wasn't quite as bad as I expected it to be.  It was far from perfect (which I expected), but it was a place to assess from.  To re-capture a moment from earlier in the month, it was my musical equivalent of Anne Lamott's "shitty first drafts" from Bird By Bird.  I'm really proud of the progress I've made in the last 24 days, and... I'm PUMPED UP for Round 2, which begins on the 12th of August!  Moving in the middle of Round 2 is going to make it a bit more of an adventure, but that's okay.  I'm still working on the exact ideas behind my "risk," but I know it will be musical in nature.

Started packing some music stuff today for the move.  Made some good progress with that, too.  I'm really looking forward to having a studio in a couple of weeks (but if you've been following along at all, you already knew that).

I now have two notebooks going for organizational purposes: one for studying and practicing, and one to help sort out how I want things organized in the new studio.

About the only thing I'm disappointed in today is that I didn't get any of the new music listened to.  Hopefully that will be a tomorrow project.

Also, I teach tomorrow.  Second to last lesson for one of my students.  She has made good progress this summer, but I'd have liked her to be farther along than she is.  Might have to send her some guitar stuff from the other side of the state to keep her going.

Good day today.
 
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