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Day One Hundred Forty Nine

So, I spent another evening with "The Story." The progression is quickly burning itself into my muscle memory. I'm having a slight issue with a chord change, though, and seeing as it's an easy one (E-F#m), it's oddly troubling to me. F#m is a chord that I've used, and played more times than I can count, so why it's bugging me now, I'm not sure. It's possible that it has something to do with the giant scrape I have on my chording hand from a near-injury at work today, but that just feels like an excuse at this point in the day. In all likelihood, I just need to keep playing the acoustic for a bit every day in order to strengthen my fingers. As has been stated many times in these pages, I do have a tendency to focus on either the acoustic or the electric at any given time. I need to do a better job of playing BOTH every day.

Tomorrow appears to be filling up with activity (only day off out of the 10 leading up to Christmas), but I'm carving out a block of time for playing in the afternoon.

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