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Day One Hundred Nine (Year Four)

For a while now, I've said that I want to find a way to trace my way through both the history of rock & roll and my history with guitar and music.  Its taken me a while to stumble onto the right way to do it, and now that I have, it was something that was staring me in the face all along... I'm using the "Brief History of Rock & Roll" that came up in the last few days.  It's 100 riffs, and it covers 1953-2011.  I'm not going to put any sort of time limit on it, be able to play them all in one take, or make a commitment to do 1 riff/day for 100 days or anything like that.  I'm just going to work on it at my own pace.  Either way, I started today with the riffs from "Mr. Sandman," and "Folsom Prison Blues."

Truth be told, I did a lot of my playing from the couch today, so while I spent time working on music stuff, I spent little time actually "in the studio."  With tomorrow off, that will definitely change, as I'm gearing up for a big push tomorrow.  I feel like I've made progress each day this weekend, but I haven't really had a full day in the studio.  If nothing else, I need to structure my day so that, when the Mrs. goes to work from 3-8, I can spend the whole five hours locked away in pursuit if rock & roll.

Today was definitely a good day.  If I can have another one tomorrow, I'll be thrilled.
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