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Day One Hundred Thirty Three (Year Four)

Tonight was another good night in the studio.

I finally sat down and hashed out the second half of Johnny B. Goode from the 100 riffs video.  I still keep wishing I could find a printable version of the tab that's up on SoundSlice, but no such luck as of yet.

Talked to my brother again tonight.  They're coming down over the holidays, and S. offered to bring along a lot of his music theory stuff so that we can both nerd out over theory for at least some of the time they are here.

After that, I asked him to throw out some chord progressions at me, so that I could translate them to guitar.  He had some crazy ideas, so I wrote them down and messed around with them for a bit after we got done talking.  Cool stuff.  Not all of it is pop/rock material in the slightest, but I can see how some of it could be adapted to popular song forms.  It makes me want to go back and find this three page chord progression he wrote out off the top of his head when he was visiting us in Northwest Iowa last Christmas.  I know I still have it, and I know I've seen it since we moved.  I'll have to hunt it down tomorrow afternoon when I get done with work, if only to see whether or not I can make any sense out of it.

Played around with the looping pedal a little bit tonight as well.  Nothing incredibly cool, but I did start to work out that progression that I made mention of last night.  More work on that tomorrow, as well, I hope.

All told, another good day.  Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.
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