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Day Three Hundred Twenty One (Year Five)

Today was a good day.  I got some good work in on a couple of different fronts, and while I still think I could have gotten a bit more done today, all things considered, I'm all right with my progress.

I worked on "Red House" for a little while tonight, finally slowing it down and working on the phrasing.  It's times like these that I wish I had another electric that I could just keep down-tuned all the time.  In all seriousness, though, I feel like I'm paying closer attention to the way that the licks fall underneath my fingers, both in terms of locations, but also where scale patterns are concerned.  Some of the studying I did earlier in the year is really helping right now, and it makes me more fully understand how important it is that I stay on top of that this summer.  I'm doing all of the things I should have done a lot sooner: working slowly, doing a better job of internalizing things, paying closer attention to the performance notes, etc.

I also took a bit of time today to get back to sorting out my iTunes and working on the song list.  I made some progress on both fronts, and am feeling pretty good with where those things are sitting right now.

It wasn't a day where I spent a whole lot of time in the studio, but it was definitely a day where I made the most of the time I did spend in there.
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