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Day Ninety (Year Five)

Parts of the day managed to get away from me again, and yet I am still left with the feeling that I made more progress.

I had wanted to work on three things when the day started, and I got to all three, even if I didn't spend as much time with each as I had hoped to when the day began.

I spent a bit of time with the record, mostly nailing down the chord progression for what I hope will be the opening track of the EP.  What I really need to do next is carve out some time to do some recording.  If I can at least get the potential opener demoed to the level of the other four songs I hope to include, then I can see if the track order holds water, and can start to focus more on the lyrical side of things.

The GW columns were also a priority for today, and I worked through some of the over-arching themes that permeate the first three columns, and things are getting better in that regard as well.  I should have spent more time with things, but I can still see the improvement.

I feel the same way about the Vai workout.  The things I worked on today went better than they did earlier in the week, and I'm feeling generally happier about it, but more time could have been spent on it.  Still, I feel like the areas I'm working on right now all tie in very well together, which has been good so far, but will only get better as time goes forward.
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