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Day Three Hundred Nineteen (Year Four)

Tonight was fun. 

I'm starting to understand a few things a bit better, and I've gotten to the point (finally?) where what I really need to do is just spend as much time as I can in the studio, just woodshedding.  Whether that's playing along with records (like I did tonight), or making a project out of finding every single backing track I have, so that I've got a ton of stuff to play along with, is immaterial.  It's more likely than not that both will happen, especially because I've got a lot of jam tracks that have come with all of my issues of Guitar Techniques over the years. 

The part that's going to prove interesting, or at least time consuming, is getting them all in one place, and all on my iPod, so that I can crank them up through my mini-speakers and just jam out.  I know well enough where they all are right now, but I want to get everything all in one place, so that anything I want is at my fingertips.  If nothing else, that'll be a decent project for either this coming week, or next week, when I've got the place to myself and can be loud without fear.

Now that I've written that last sentence, maybe this week is the time for that project, so that I can crank it up the next week while the Mrs. is out of town.
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