Skip to main content

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.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day One Hundred Eleven (Year Eight)

Okay, so Dave's voice was kinda shot last night and the show was still epic.  Here's what they played: Run All My Life Learn to Fly The Pretender The Sky Is a Neighborhood Rope ( with solo's ) Sunday Rain My Hero These Days Walk Under My Wheels / Jump / Another One Bites the Dust / Blitzkrieg Bop ( w/ band introductions ) Big Me Congregation Breakout Times Like These This Is a Call Under Pressure ( Queen  cover) Monkey Wrench Breakdown ( Tom Petty  cover) Best of You Dirty Water Let There Be Rock ( AC/DC  cover) Everlong   And here is a little bit of "Big Me," just for fun:    
Post a Comment
Read more

Day Three Hundred Forty (Year Six)

It's done.  Well, okay, so it's 99.5% done, but that's close enough for me. The stereo and the turntable got set up this morning, as I figured they would, and the two bags of randomness (picks, my slide, tuners, etc) and the few small piles of notebooks got dealt with tonight.  I even managed to get the iMac set up, if not fired up. And yet, the studio remains only slightly unfinished.  Somewhere in either the house or the garage, there must be a box or a bag that has a couple of studio-related items tucked into it, because there are at least two things I can't find.  As fate would have it, they're important things, too.  And something tells me that they're all in one place.  I'm missing: 1.  My looping pedal 2.  The power cable for my Marshall 3.  The foot switch for the Marshall They're all things that would have been in the same general area in the old studio, but given how much of the house we've gotten set up already, it really surpris
Post a Comment
Read more

Day Two Hundred Ninety Three (Year Four)

Big day today, for a few reasons... First off, it was a good night in the studio.  As opposed to the recent sessions that have had a singular focus (either theory-related, or acoustic/set list related), tonight had a little bit of both things in it.  When I hit the studio tonight, I fully expected to pick up the electric and work out a bit more theory studying, much like things have gone for the last week or so.  Knowing that, I somehow ended up with the acoustic in my hands, working through a little bit of Brandi Carlile.  More specifically, two songs of hers that I have always loved, "Wasted," and "Fall Apart Again," but until tonight, never taken the time to sit down and learn.  I have a songbook with everything from the first three records, and it took me until tonight to sit down and take a look at working through some of these things. In a related note, I really feel like the last year has been so very good for my confidence, musically.  There are some p
Post a Comment
Read more