DayOne Hundred Thirty Six (Year Seven)

Today ended up being a whole lot like yesterday. I worked for most of the day, and while it was busy there, I still found a little bit of time to sit down and focus my thoughts on things that are ahead. I made a few additions to my list, and they feel like solid additions, at that.

I found a little bit of time to do some listening today, too, but that was the real extent of what I got to today. Tomorrow starts early, but the evening is free, and should offer a bit of time in the studio.

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Day Two Hundred Twenty Seven (Year Two)

So, the new Springsteen disc is amazing. There's enough of a mixture of his upbeat rockers, his ballads, and his message songs to make this his best record since The Rising . And speaking of that record... Buying The Boss the day it comes out always takes me back to a specific moment in life. It was July 30th, 2002, the year after 9/11, the year after someone on the streets of New York told Springsteen "we need you now." I had driven to Oshkosh, WI to visit some friends, when I remembered that Springsteen's disc was scheduled to come out that day. I drove downtown to The Exclusive Company, but had to park a few blocks back. At the time, there wasn't much going on downtown, but when I got out of the car, I could hear this music coming from up the block somewhere. The closer I got to Exclusive, the more it began to dawn on me, they had set up a giant set of speakers in their upstairs windows, and were blasting the new album out into the streets. I wasn

Day Two Hundred Twenty Six (Year Four)

So I dove back into 100 Riffs tonight, going into it with the hope that the hand written tabs I did last night would help me unlock the issue I was having transitioning from the first half of the riff to the second half. It worked. With both halves clearly written in front of me, I was able to work through the transition that had been tripping me up when the screen cut off was happening on SoundSlice. That's going to be a nice thing to have in my bag of tricks for the times when I get stumped figuring these things out. I played a little bit of acoustic tonight as well, trying to be better about finding the balance between both instruments. Late 90's-early 2000's rock has come up a lot in conversations at work of late, so in that spirit, I picked a song from that time period out of my set list notebook ("Your Winter" by Sister Hazel), and took a quick look at it. Admittedly, it's a song I had mostly learned a long time ago, so the essential parts of it w

Day Ninety Three (Year Two)

So, I'll admit right off the bat that I spent a good chunk of the day focused on the "other" stuff that needed to get done during my two days off. The thought on this being that, if I could get most/all of the other stuff out of the way today, it would free me up to devote all of tomorrow to musical pirsuits. That being said, I didn't ignore the music entirely. I picked up the electric for a little while to run some scales and just play a little bit. That crossed off a small bit of the "practice" part of yesterday's goals. I also did a bit of listening... most of it from things that I had already heard. Tomorrow needs to be spent on recording, with more practicing, and some reading. Tonight, before sleeping, I can start in on some of the reading. I didn't do as much as I hoped to music-wise today, but I did set myself up for a lot of time for it tomorrow, which I'll take as a victory.

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