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Day Two Hundred Twenty Nine (Year Four)

Today was much the same as yesterday.  A little bit of electric, a little bit of acoustic, and some solid progress overall.

As for the electric stuff, I worked on the next riff in the line of 100 Riffs.  I didn't spend a lot of time with it tonight, so I'll probably focus more on that tomorrow night.

I did sit down with the list of acoustic songs, and start working my way through the chords for some of them, just as a way to familiarize myself with what's coming up.  Didn't work on vocals so much, in part because I'm still getting over the last bit of the cold I came down with a few weeks ago.  Now that the weather seems to be warming up a bit (finally), I'm hopeful that the rest of my cold will burn off quickly, and I can dive into some of the singing.

Listened to a bit more of what I had recorded in February tonight as well.  I'm still happy with it.  Right now I'm debating between pushing ahead and trying to go for "good enough" when it comes to the guitar parts immediately (as was the plan for at least a few songs this week), or simply bouncing everything down and taking the rough demos along in the car this weekend.  Either way, I'm committed to doing right by this project, even if it moves at a slow pace now that the hectic part is over.

I'm already planning out road music in my head for Friday.  Aside from the obvious (Cory & The Wandering Sons), I'm thinking Big Star and Volcano Choir.
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